Pitches Quotes

I was really happy with the 2,000th hit, because before the at-bat, I wanted to make sure my uniform looked good, my socks looked good. I made sure that way, if there’s a highlight, I at least look my best. It was a really good at-bat. I was very happy, because the pitcher was throwing very tough pitches that at-bat.

My dog wants the entrepreneurial community to know how thankful she is for the fact that she gets to go out. She has heard more pitches than probably much of the world.

Disney usually doesn’t do pitches for original ideas.

Trendy gadgets and edgy pitches inevitably get replaced due to the fickle nature of the buying public, but a business designed from the start to play big has the ability to weather trends and redirect itself to venues and products that its customers want and need.

You keep pitching. Most of the pitches run wild. A few are caught.

A couple of Astros players told me I was tipping pitches, but now it comes out they were stealing signs. Was I tipping, or were they stealing?

I’ve got a fastball, change-up, forkball, curve, slider, knuckle-slider, knuckle-curve, I had about seven pitches I could have used at any time.

I think with my generation, your first game of senior football was often a Sunday League game of football. Sometimes you‘re playing on pitches that aren’t great, you’ve no referee, you’ve no goal nets.

Besides merely some pleasure that we get out of the combinations of pitches together and lines, I think that there is some satisfaction that we get in the fact of having this diffuse thing organized very concretely and put onto a frame and have it actually decided.

You fool around with different pitches playing catch, but it’s not the same when you’ve got to face some guy with a bat in his hand.

I started to play football when I was about 10; my father brought me to one school because there were more pitches where we could play.

I’ve been able to sell a number of pilots. Most have been based on my personal experience, so basically, my pitches have been like ‘Sit-‘n-Spin’ pieces.

I left Canada in 1953 because I could find nothing very satisfying about delivering commercial pitches on camera. I felt the whole atmosphere of TV in Canada was listless.

If someone pitches me a really great idea for an album, I would do it.

I played on frozen pitches, on snow. I had only a couple of years indoor before I went to England.

A pitcher needs two pitches, one they’re looking for and one to cross them up.

There are only so many pitches in this old arm, and I don’t believe in wasting them throwing to first base.

I’d love to see pitches start very dry all over the world, which is good for batting but means there will be turn – a cricket match without spinners is like a chess match without two important pieces – a less interesting game.

There’s been a couple of guys who have gotten me. I used to say Adrian Gonzalez. He’s a good lefty hitter; he’s hit a few home runs off of me. They were a couple of mistakes, so if you make your pitches, you’re more likely to have a better outcome.

There are only so many pitches in this old arm, and I don’t believe in wasting them throwing to first base.

My love of running developed when I got older. At school it filled me with dread and the idea of running around the sports pitches struck me with a nameless fear.

I’ve got four pitches now. I don’t have to use them all the time, but I’ve got them in my pocket now for when it’s necessary.

In India you pick teams based on pitches, so it’s the bowlers who get changed. if it is a turning pitch a fast bowler can’t play, and if it is a green pitch, a spinner can’t play.

I still think there are some pitches in this pitching arm, so I will continue playing with USA Softball, but knowing that this could be the last time a softball player stands on the Olympic podium and has the opportunity of experiencing this – it was emotional.

Pitchers are going to break. You can limit their pitches and limit their innings, and they’re still going to blow out. Pitching is hard on the arm.

Once I get completely right mechanically and with command, maybe I only use two or three pitches to get through seven innings.

I’ve invested in pitches and continue to run clinics to help encourage others to do the same.

My secondary schooling was at Marlborough College, Wiltshire, so I’m fond of that part of the world. It’s quintessentially English, with village greens, pubs and cricket pitches, and resonates strongly with me.

You see certain guys enough, and you recognize pitches and stuff. Some guys you see better than others.

I study pitchers. I visualize pitches. That gives me a better chance every time I step into the box. That doesn’t mean I’m going to get a hit every game, but that’s one of the reasons I’ve come a long way as a hitter.

English conditions have changed over the years. Lots of runs are being scored in one-day cricket now in England, pitches are good for batting.

I was notorious at NXT for having constant pitches and ideas. I was that girl who would come in every day to Dusty Rhodes with a 10-page pitch for characters and posters of character development.

There are some instances where I don’t have an opportunity to do anything but walk. There are instances where I get pitches to hit and I can hopefully do something good with it, and I try not to give anything away.

It is not my domain to speak on pitches, but they play an important role in producing quality players in every format.

Every sketch goes through a rewrite stage where a group of writers sits around a table and pitches more jokes and ideas for the piece.

It’s tougher when you’re established. Before, I’d see 13, 14, 15 pitches that I could drive in a game. Now, I see one, two or three, so I have to be better.

The big thing is, it’s about learning which off-speed pitches to swing at. A lot of people say, ‘Oh, this guy can’t hit a curveball; this guy can’t hit an off-speed pitch.’ But it’s about swinging at the right one. Swing at the hangers. Swing at the ones you can handle.

When you get strike one, strike two, you’re putting pressure on them to swing at your pitches.

Later, I could take something off my slider and I could make my fastball sink, so I really had four pitches.

Artificial pitches are just one more condition for us, like sun, wind or snow; we should be able to deal with such conditions.

I have toured Bangladesh plenty of times and the pitches were unbelievable.

Pitchers are going to break. You can limit their pitches and limit their innings, and they’re still going to blow out. Pitching is hard on the arm.