Quotes About Pitching

Usually if you have an idea, you have to first pitch it to a production company, get them on board, then go around and pitch to networks.

I think that's particularly important in the playoffs when you're facing good pitching. You've got to go up and just anyway you can try to be productive.

I've pitched in a lot of different roles in my career. I've been the middle-inning guy. I've been a lefty matchup guy. I've closed. I've kind of done a little bit of everything.

The first sport I played was baseball. I remember being on the Little League team and someone pitching the ball to me for the first time. I was ready to no longer hit the ball off the tee, and an adult pitched it to me underhand.

Nothing flatters me more than to have it assumed that I could write prose-unless it be to have it assumed that I once pitched a baseball with distinction.

The reason I think I'm a good pitcher is I locate my fastball and I change speeds. Period. That's what you do to pitch. That's what pitchers have to do to win games

I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it.

The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.

What has benefited me the most is learning I can't control what happens outside of my pitching.

A successful pitcher keeps the leadoff hitter from reaching first base and puts the first pitch over for a strike - the two most important rules of pitching.

The final release point for the fastball is the tips of your fingers.

But I'm not going to walk Barry Bonds, like some teams do, in the first inning with nobody on.

I don't believe for one second that the eye surgery has helped me on the mound

You know you're pitching well when the batters look as bad as you do at the plate.

The pitching coach was bugged by the author's technique because he had never seen anyone do it before, and besides, it wasn't the coach's idea.

Doubleday's First Law, which states that if you throw a fastball with insufficient speed, someone will smack it out of the park with a stick.

Sandy's fastball was so fast, some batters would start to swing as he was on his way to the mound.

The only thing Earl Weaver knows about big-league pitching is that he couldn't hit it.

The least-crowded channel for meeting high profile bloggers is in person. Email is the most difficult, the most crowded... I'm a top 1,000 blogger, not a top 100 blogger, and I get hundreds of pitches by email every week. Most of them I don't even see because my assistant declines them.

The biggest thing was just working on fastball location and getting ahead of guys.

I was short with my fastball and breaking ball.

Fastball middle-middle. You can't miss that pitch.

Phil Niekro and his brother were pitching against each other in Atlanta. Their parents were sitting right behind home plate. I saw their folks more that day than they did the whole weekend.

Like I'm seeing Chris Sale; he's got a similar pitching style and strikes guys out a lot. Why are people only talking about my strikeouts and all that stuff?... Why not the other guys, who have similar numbers and pitch counts?