Quotes About Pitching

It's amazing to consider that no matter what size customer we were pitching, or where in the world we were selling, a singular idea drove all our accomplishments: we never sold features. We sold the model and we sold the customer's success.

If Satch (Paige) and I were pitching on the same team, we would clinch the pennant by July fourth and go fishing until World Series time.

What, and give him (the batter) a chance to think on my time.

Because I have so much life on my pitches, I can get away with getting too much of the plate every now and then.

I just don't see me going through that rehab and coming back to pitch at this point in my life.

I'm confident in myself, either way. I've pitched big games all my life.

Pitching. You're pitching yourself constantly which is probably why there are so many plays about sales. I think also it's like life.

As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher's mound. It was as if I'd been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy.

The Rays are kind of the envy of the industry based on so many good arms with so much good stuff and they seem to be able to handle high leverage moments... Nobody develops and executes pitching as well as they do, and that's a big part of their success.

My best pitch is my fastball. It's probably the most difficult pitch to hit. In my case, batters have very little reaction time.

My approach every game is to try to keep the ball down and get ground ball outs.

You know in 1982, the year we came in tied for 3rd, we probably had a better team - I mean as far as talent. When we came back the following year and won it, our pitching staff was a little more experienced and it was such a thrill.

The two biggest things that translate from the pitching mound to hunting and fishing are patience and perseverance. When you're on the mound, you have to take the game one pitch at a time, regardless of the score, and that approach helps when I'm in the woods or on the water as well.

Where the ball went was up to heaven. Sometimes I threw the ball clean up into the stands.

We had to adjust and threw a few more rise balls and curves but it worked.

I threw a lot of fastballs in college.

I threw a good fastball and changeup, but a below-average curveball.

I've been pitching a show of five female stand-up comedians through the generations, from Phyllis Diller to Amy Schumer, so when I got an e-mail asking me if I would participate in the Women in Comedy Festival, I was thrilled.

You don't just throw the ball - you propel it.

I feel like a pioneer with the split-fingered fastball. I was the first one to really throw it pretty much 100 percent of the time. It was a pitch that I had to have. If I didn't have it, I wouldn't have been in the big leagues.

Ken Holtzman could pitch a game in ninety minutes. Wouldn't throw a breaking ball. And he had a great breaking ball.

I'm not executing my pitches. I'm not commanding my fastball, and I get behind in the count. When I try to throw strikes, I'm getting hurt. That's not the way I pitch.

The only way you preserve pitching arms is throwing; that makes the arm stronger.

One of the easiest shots in golf is chipping. It should be the easiest. It's like throwing a ball or pitching pennies. It's easy. And I struggle with that, and the struggle is all mental.