Quotes About Pitch

I spend the entire 90 minutes looking for space on the pitch. I'm always between the opposition's two holding midfielders and thinking, 'The defence is here, so I get the ball and I go there to where the space is.'

People call it high-concept but it's really having an idea which you can tell in a couple of sentences, so the head of the studio can call the marketing guy and pitch it, and the marketing guy can say, Yeah, I can sell that.

However, just because it's an institution of higher learning offering the course doesn't mean it's automatically free from bias and veiled sales pitches.

I came to Spain to play and get more time on the pitch.

Pep's Barcelona was spectacular. They had a collective style based on players of talent, which sought control and sought to dominate all over the pitch.

Spin rate itself doesn't make a pitch harder to hit. It just makes it further from what the hitters are used to seeing. It takes a pitch further away from average.

Upon his arrival at Chelsea, Mourinho spoke to me. He gives me confidence and I'm trying to return all such support on the pitch.

THE ROUGH TIMBERS of the monastery wall were aged and warped, and there were numerous gaps and holes in the wood. Covered in pitch, they were a poor defensive barrier, if they had ever been intended as such. Cnán and Finn approached the wood cautiously and dared to peek through the gaps. Whereupon

I've pitched movies to all of the major studio heads in my time.

I can speak in cliches and say how much the Israel national team means to us, but we have to prove that on the pitch.

Angie: "How do I pitch these ideas to her?" Mira: "From a distance, preferably wearing body armor.

That split second an invisible battery opened up with a salvo. Patton had to raise his voice to a still higher pitch, as he exclaimed, "Compared to war, all other forms of human endeavor shrink to insignificance. God, how I love it!

Q: So then they desist? A: Usually. Q: And if not? A: I pitch them into the sea.

I always just wanted to write and maybe direct. I'm really only interested in that. And yet the business that I'm in has forced me into being a salesman - that's the last thing that 17-year-old me would imagine I'd end up being. I'm uncomfortable trying to sell anything, but that's what you're doing every time you walk into a pitch.

I have never been too concerned about things you're supposed to be concerned about as a singer. Pitch is important, and so is sounding good. But I think there's something underneath all that.

Radical feminists have been making the pitch that justice demands that men and women be given an equal opportunity to make it to the top in the workplace.

Football is a contact sport. So, on the pitch, it isn't possible to maintain distance like you can in an office job.

In 2007, Barca B were demoted from the Tercera to the Cuarta Division and I was among the players who wanted to leave. Then Guardiola arrived and he wanted to play with wingers that were spread out across the pitch and he gave me an opportunity.

Mascherano's impact as a leader is more important inside the squad, and Messi's leadership is more important in the pitch.

Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed.

You can be nervous when the referee starts the game but you must get rid of all the nerves and enjoy a great stadium and great pitch.

Santiago Bernabeu is the best stadium I have ever played in. I enjoy every minute on its pitch.

The Besiktas fans are very passionate. When you go out onto the pitch the noise coming from the stands always hits you.

To get 'The Greatest Showman' greenlit, we had to get everyone into New York City to hear a read through, where we'd read through the script and sing it.