Quotes About Sports

I'm a breaking-ball pitcher.

Pitchers are smart. They know they are much better off if they mix things up and keep you off-balance.

I feel like, in general, lefties hit fastballs from right-handed pitchers better than right-handers hit fastballs from right-handed pitchers.

You could ask any position player and they'll tell you: pitchers aren't athletes.

Baseball's postseason shifts from game to game because of starting pitchers and the geography of the ballparks.

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

I definitely played on a lot of muddy northern pitches.

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.

In this country, since footballs made from pigs' bladders were whacked into goals without nets, we've played on full-size pitches. Whatever our age.

We had almost like our own little sports complex at the house. The driveway was like the pitching mound. We used to play one-on-one street hockey right there. My dad wanted to make sure we were ready to have some fun, so he was always out grabbing sports equipment.

No, I think the pitching today has more depth.

Nolan Ryan is pitching much better now that he has his curve ball straightened out.

Pitching keeps you in the games. Home runs win the game.

Nice people around Pittsburgh.

Pittsburgh is a great organization.

Pittsburgh is a football town.

I'm originally from Pittsburgh. So I come from an amazing sports town.

Ronda Rousey is a woman of extraordinary accomplishment, and anything that Ronda Rousey does is going to come with extreme scrutiny because she is such a pivotal figure in not only American sports but in global sports as well.

Usually before matches I eat plain pasta with a little bit olive oil, salt, pepper and chicken.

When I'm on planes, I'd talk to people and I'd tell them I compete in the X Games. Some would know what it was, but maybe half didn't. But everyone knows about the Olympics. They're really like the X Games for the world!

I think the American sports culture has the idea that professional athletes need so much, like flying private planes, which obviously we don't, but that's the American sports culture when they think of the NFL and the NBA.

My becoming an actor wasn't planned. My interest always lied in sports such as football, martial arts, gymnastics and dance.

Women need to make sure they know what they're talking about. You can't just plant yourself in front of a camera and be pretty because that's just not good enough. It's just not a respectable way about building one's career - in sports or anywhere on TV.

If you drag your shoe a bit those plastic spikes or rubber spikes can be almost as bad as metal spikes.