Quotes About Athletics

I will always fight and give my all on the pitch.

Brazil needs a player like Neymar at his best on the pitch because Neymar on the pitch gives more confidence to the other players.

I want to focus on football and just go on the pitch to do my thing.

The pitch is the most important material for a football player.

I like to be on the pitch, I like to perform and impact the game.

Scoring goals is nothing new for me. Every time I go out onto that pitch, I just go out there to score goals.

People say that because I'm short I get a lot more skid off the pitch.

I'm a finesse pitcher without the finesse.

You can't go out to the mound hobbling and take a pitcher out with a cane.

That's a thing you always hear - the hitters make adjustments. I think the pitcher has to make some adjustments, too.

A pitcher's got to be good and he's got to be lucky to get a no hit game.

I've done literally everything there is to do on a baseball field as a pitcher.

I'm a fly-ball pitcher, guys.

A pitcher is only as good as his legs.

I never faced a pitcher with better stuff than Nolan Ryan.

If you talk to any pitcher, consistency is the most important thing.

I loved baseball. I was a pitcher. I loved being on the mound because I also loved being at the center of the action, the cat and mouse battle with the batter on every pitch. You had to develop grit.

I love both sports, but the deciding factor was, being a left-handed pitcher, I had a huge advantage in baseball because of that, and I didn't have that type of advantage in hockey.

When you have these big, strong power hitters who can hit the ball a country mile, and they're strong for a reason and able to do that, as a pitcher you have to keep up.

If a pitcher makes a mistake inside, I'm going to hit it.

I like that the pitcher hits. I think that my feeling is that everybody should play a position. In order to hit, you have to play a position. That's just my view of it. I feel that's more baseball, and the games are managed different. I enjoy the National League, how it's played.

I want the pitcher to know he can't take a pitch off, or I'm going to damage him.

A pitcher's arm goes, and they're done.

I think every facet of running has its benefits towards a starting pitcher. I mean, you're explosive off the mound and yet you've got to have endurance.