Quotes About Pitch

Whenever you take a general meeting, inevitably you run out of things to talk about, they'd always say, 'What's your dream project?' I would always pull out 'Gerald's Game.' If they knew the book, they'd say, 'Well, that's unfilmable.' If they didn't know the book it would take about 30 seconds of my pitch to say, 'That's not a movie.'

I always tried to defend high up the pitch, to be in the opposition's half and play the game there.

It's not important to me where I'm playing, just as long as the manager is happy and trusting me to go out on the pitch.

My brother never got an opportunity to throw a pitch, and I didn't want the same thing to happen to another young kid.

I've always taught pitch selection, but I just want my guys to be aggressive on their pitch.

The purpose of an elevator pitch is to describe a situation or solution so compelling that the person you're with wants to hear more even after the elevator ride is over.

You got the ball in your hands and you're in command, and if you get your good pitch where you want it, nobody's gonna hit you.

The tunnels shrieked with the wind, each one with its own febrile pitch, creating a fierce chorus.

I was looking forward to playing soccer, playing more minutes on the pitch, and I didn't have the chance to play more minutes in Manchester. So I came here to the Chicago Fire.

I love to have the ball. That's why I play soccer, and we have a great coach who has this kind of view, he sees everything, and I just want to help as much as I can, on the pitch and off the pitch.

Players like Ronaldinho and Neymar started in futsal schools. Denilson loved playing too, looking for things to take onto the soccer pitch.

Singers who are dependent on digital audio pitch correction software cannot last more than two-three songs.

I have to sell my idea, but they want it to be sold. I don't think I've ever done anything anyone's regretted.

I don't have that intuition, of changing a defender for a midfielder, for example. I'm incompetent on that matter, to put a player on the pitch and hope that he magically finds a solution.

I pitch Mint to everyone from investors to engineers, young and old, and I do it pretty much the same way: Here's the problem in the market place, here's how we solve it, and here's how we make money.

But you are, you know, you were, the nearest thing to a real story to happen in my life

Master salespeople catch their own prospects.

Her laughter began low and quiet then rose in pitch and flickered all over the room, like blood splatter.

How about this. . ." she started. A compromise. She'd suggest some small boutique wedding thing, like the daughter of a friend of hers did at Estes Park, which would still be wildly expensive and require planning and be socially acceptable. I waited for the pitch, but I was still going to tell her no. Then she said, "Why don't your father and I come along?

A melody is not merely something you can hum.

Sometimes it feels like our mental health is directly linked to our performance on the pitch, and while I understand that it is of course a factor - it's not the whole picture.

The players love Guardiola's methods and it shows on the pitch. I think every player would like to work with him.

What, the Star Wars?" Mapp said. "If the aliens are trying to control Buffalo Bill's thoughts from another planet, Senator Martin can protect him—is that the pitch?" Starling nodded. "A lot of paranoid schizophrenics have that specific hallucination—alien control. If that's the way Bill's wired, maybe this approach could bring him out. It's a damn good shot, though, and she stood up there and fired it, didn't she?

Your sales pitch should present the goal and build to the interesting complication. They'll buy that.