If we lose today, it will be over my dead body. They'll have to leave me face down on the mound.
Everybody is so sensitive, you'd think Nolan Ryan was pitching.
My only problem is the fear that opposition bowlers might go for my fingers and that's why I was scared of the short ball. Now I am struggling with the ball pitching up and swinging away. I just keep nicking that one.
Cooperation in the most natural thing in the world
Pitching is what you have best on the day you work, and if you cant get your fastball over the plate, then maybe you can win with your curve.
Regardless of where you're pitching, regardless of what goes on before or after your game, you still have to be ready.
Pitching in the Olympic Games, Pan Am Games and Central American games prepared me to pitch at the big-league level.
The secret of success in pitching lies in getting a job with the Yankees.
Sometimes you have to give credit to the other guy pitching.
Pitching. You're pitching yourself constantly which is probably why there are so many plays about sales. I think also it's like life.
I keep a lot of my old baseball hats, and if you look in the hats I've had since I started pitching, you'll see 'Philippians 4:13′ written on the brim. That's the Scripture that gets me through the day because sometimes you can't do it all by yourself. You can't do it on your own, so you lean on Him.
Why do I have to be an example for your kid? You be an example for your own kid.
The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.
When an artist wants to paint a painting, they have all those things in their head that they want to portray on a canvas. It's the same thing when I'm pitching. I have all these thoughts going through my head about how I want to pitch: which pitch I want to throw here, and why do I want to throw it?
The farmer doesn't care for the pitchers' battle that resolves itself into a checkers game. The farmer loves the dramatic, and slugging is more dramatic than even the cleverest pitching.
We need three kinds of pitching: left-handed, right-handed and relief.
I don't think baseball could survive without all the statistical appurtenances involved in calculating pitching, hitting and fielding percentages. Some people could do without the games as long as they got the box scores.
When the path ahead of you is uphill, surrounded by rough spots, hazards and obstacles: use a pitching wedge.
Son, what kind of pitch would you like to miss.
To this day, I fondly recall the challenges of building a fire, pitching a tent, climbing a New England mountain, canoeing on a lake. Camp songs still resonate inside me. Competition exists at Keewaydin, of course, but nobody fails summer camp, a nice respite from winters of fortune and misfortune at school.