I'd rather him (Grover Alexander) pitch a crucial game for me drunk, then anyone I've ever known sober. He was that good.
After the 2006 World Cup, I knew that you don't always need success, success, success on the pitch.
Can it be That modesty may more betray our sense Than woman's lightness? Having waste ground enough, Shall we desire to raze the sanctuary And pitch our evils there?
The good rising fastball is the best pitch in baseball.
There is a direct parallel in the way that we speak, with natural variations of pitch and volume that give full meaning to our words. This is what is missing in the words on the page of a book, and the notes on the score.
If you pitch your movie to someone and they say, "Oh, please, don't make that. No one would see it. " Do it! Because that means you may have something that's not the norm.
If you expect perfection from people your whole life is a series of disappointments, grumblings and complaints. If, on the contrary, you pitch your expectations low, taking folks as the inefficient creatures which they are, you are frequently surprised by having them perform better than you had hoped.
Entrepreneurs always pitch their idea as 'the X of Y,' so this is going to be 'the Microsoft of food. ' And yet disruptive innovations usually don't have that character. Most of the time, if something seems like a good idea, it probably isn't.
I think it's all a coincidence. I've pitched some poor games here and got a no-decision. But just give me the ball. I don't care where I pitch.
In my opinion, the best setup guys now have a tougher job than the closers. They pitch more innings, inherit more runners.
In sum, do not insult me with the beheadings, finger choppings or the lung-deflations you plan for my works. I need my head to shake or nod, my hand to wave or make into a fist, my lungs to shout or whisper with. I will not go gently onto a shelf, degutted, to become a non-book. All you umpires, back to the bleachers. Referees, hit the showers. It's my game. I pitch, I hit, I catch. I run the bases. At sunset I've won or lost. At sunrise, I'm out again, giving it the old try. And no one can help me. Not even you.
There are, however, composers whose music can only be heard in a chromatic sense. George Perle, for example, wrote pieces that you might think of as leaning in a tonal direction but it's very hard to register a pitch as, say, the sixth degree of a scale, whereas in much of my music I think that's often relatively easy to do.
Thoughts create only according to their pitch, intensity, emotional quality, depth of feeling, or vibrational plane.
When I'm healthy, I can still pitch. I know I can still pitch at that level and get the results that I want.
I am content to live it all again And yet again, if it be life to pitch Into the frog-spawn of a blind man's ditch.
The way I pitch is the way I pitch. I'm not going to change my overall philosophy. I'll just go out and pitch.
What's nice about investing is you don't have to swing at every pitch.
If you're in pitch blackness, all you can do is sit tight until your eyes get used to the dark
I'll always be grateful for the dream season of 1986. In a corner of my mind I will stand forever with my bat cocked, waiting for the two-one pitch from Calvin Schiraldi.
If you were a blade of grass or a tiny flower I will pitch my tent in your shadow. Only your presence revives my withered heart. You are the candle that lights the whole world and I am an empty vessel for your light.