Quotes on Pitching

It’s like losing gravity and falling into space – the moment of pitching headlong when the endlessness of space asserts itself and there is no more down, only an eternity of up, and you realize you can fall forever and never run out of stars.

The reason I was successful in launching my first book with bloggers is this: I assumed that I should spend as much time on a blogger with a million-person readership as I would pitching an editor of a publication with a million person subscription-base.

My pitching philosophy is simple - keep the ball way from the bat.

Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher.

Pitching always beats batting — and vice-versa.

Show me a guy who can't pitch inside and I'll show you a loser.

If I could straighten it out (his golf swing), I'd be pitching at Dodger Stadium tonight.

The game has a cleanness. If you do a good job, the numbers say so. You don't have to ask anyone or play politics. You don't have to wait for the reviews.

The dumber a pitcher is, the better. When he gets smart and begins to experiment with a lot of different pitches, he's in trouble. All I ever had was a fastball, a curve and a changeup and I did pretty good.

The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting.

Can I throw harder than Joe Wood? Listen mister, no man alive can throw any harder than Smoky Joe Wood.

Dad was the pitching coach, while Mom was the emotional supporter. Her unconditional love was great, and she wanted what was best for me. It was more about what she did than what she said, and she made sure I was the best I could be.

I'm going to be pitching Andy Cohen on a new show for Bravo. We can call it 'Project Pantsuit.'

You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain.

One of the beautiful things about baseball is that every once in a while you come into a situation where you want to, and where you have to, reach down and prove something.

Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move.

Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.