Pitch's Quotes

The first pitch to Tucker Ashford is grounded into left field. No, wait a minute. It's ball one. Low and outside. — Jerry Coleman

It's always fire with Baz. I can't believe he hasn't incinerated me yet. Or burned me at the stake. — Rainbow Rowell

Here's to real heroes, not the ones who carry us off into the sunset but the ones who help us choose our princes. - commentary on Castles on the Sand — E.M. Tippetts

Baseball is continuity. Pitch to pitch. Inning to inning. Season to season. — Ernie Harwell

I really don't have an ear for pitch. I can't sing at all, I can't hum melodies and I can't write riffs. — Patrick Carney

They pay you to pitch and that's what I'm going to do. — Roy Oswalt

Life's too short to sit on the bench, so get in there and pitch the game. — Victoria Schwimley

As a book author, it's your responsibility to cast a vision for your book about the length and appearance before you pitch the idea to a publisher. — W. Terry Whalin

Be music always. Keep changing the keys, tones, pitch, and volume of each of the songs you create along your life's journey and play on. — Suzy Kassem

We have to take care of our own game. There's only one place we've got to stick up for ourselves and that's the pitch. — Andrew Flintoff

He smiles, and he's made of trouble. We should have dropped him in the Thames in a bag of stones. We should have left him out for the fairies. — Rainbow Rowell

I'm not a hustler. I don't pitch songs. I don't ask people to write with me. It's not what I do. — Chris Stapleton

Every morning I rise when it is pitch black outside (and you know it's not natural to be up if the sun couldn't even be bothered to get up), — Cecelia Ahern

One small spark was all it took to light up pitch darkness. — Bella Forrest

I'm driving a stolen car On a pitch black night And I'm telling myself I'm gonna be alright. — Dennis Lehane

Sometimes the creating that we do is creating a platform that allows other creative people to pitch in. — Theaster Gates

Brazil - they're so good it's like they are running round the pitch playing with themselves. — John Motson

Life's a pitch, as the old woman said. She couldn't pronounce her 'b's. — Karl Ove Knausgard

Many husbands today pitch in to help with household chores - it's called partnership. — Abigail Van Buren

I'm working on a new pitch. It's called a strike. — Jim Kern

Don't pitch or shove your products down people's throat. Don't be a greasy salesman. Listen to your customer. — Timi Nadela

Whatever I can do to win, I'll do it, even if I have to get hit by a pitch, whatever it takes. — Dontrelle Willis

Life's a pitch, and then you buy — Billy Mays

The screwball's an unnatural pitch. Nature never intended a man to turn his hand like that throwing rocks at a bear. — Carl Hubbell

That's your pitch to women? Let's get naked?" He snorted. "No wonder your balls are blue. — Nalini Singh

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. — Dwight Gooden

Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home. — James Montgomery

Whenever you have a tight situation and there's a close pitch, the umpire gets a squawk no matter how he calls it. — Red Barber

Our voices, wrapping around each other's, entwining, and then tugging free, in the pitch black. — Rick Yancey

There's some people on the pitch ... they think it's all over ... it is now! — Kenneth Wolstenholme

There are things in this world that the children hear, but whose sounds oscillate below an adult's sense of pitch. — Edmund De Waal

You don't want to see that happen on the pitch, it's only right to try and break it up. — Gareth Barry

I really like Dontrelle Willis' pitch; he's animated on the mound and is fun to watch - he gets into the game emotionally. — Jennie Finch

Whenever you get an inflamed tendon, you've got a problem. OK, here's the next pitch to Gene Tendon. — Jerry Coleman

Anybody's best pitch is the one the batters ain't hitting that day. — Christy Mathewson

Now, art thou the man to pitch a harpoon down a live whale's throat, and then jump after it? Answer, quick! — Herman Melville

Carlton does not pitch to the hitter, he pitches through him. The batter hardly exists for Steve. He's playing an elevated game of catch. — Tim McCarver

I don't have to get a pitch down the middle. If I like the pitch-even if it's 15 inches off the plate, and that's the pitch I wanted-I'm swinging. — Vladimir Guerrero

I don't type my sentences on an arena's pitch, surrounded by thousands of cheering or booing fans - I don't feel pressure to please a crowd. — David Benioff

Away from the pitch, I'm a very calm person. I maybe have the odd cross word with my wife, like any relationship, but that's it. — Luis Suarez

There's hardly anything I've ever done that's made me cringe; I've got pretty good pitch, for a start, so I'm not known for hitting bum notes. — Robert Palmer

Roger. Clear the tower. I got a pitch and a roll program, and this baby's really going. — Pete Conrad

The fastball is the best pitch in baseball. It's like having five pitches, if you move it around. — Luis Tiant

The pitch count situatio-it doesn't matter if you throw 120 or 80, whatever. It's the quality of pitches that you throw. — Eli Manning

We search for patterns, you see, only to find where the patterns break. And it's there, in that fissure, that we pitch our tents and wait. — Nicole Krauss

That's like bringing a guy up from the minors to pitch the World Series. — Mario Puzo

It's pitch, sex is. Once you touch it, it clings to you. — Margery Allingham

President Bush threw out the first pitch Monday at Cincinnati's great American ball park. 18 Iraqis were killed. — Amy Poehler

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. — William Butler Yeats

Ideals are like tuning forks: sound them often to bring your life up to standard pitch. — S.D. Gordon

There are people who criticise me, and that's normal because of the way I am on the pitch. I get angry, I get tense. — Luis Suarez

When you take a pitch and line it somewhere, it's like you've thought of something and put it there with beautiful clarity. — Reggie Jackson

I'm not really someone who looks forward to the gym. But I realise it's something that I have to do to perform well on the pitch. — Andrew Flintoff

In fact, I love singing. I just have a small problem with pitch, tune, melody, and lyrics. But that's never stopped me. — Kevin Daniels

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. — Jamie Moyer

I think it's important to have an experienced writer or editor critique your work to get it ready to pitch an agent. — Tom Robinson

But, at the moment, when I step on the pitch, when I have the ball I know it's mine. It's just a feeling. — Thierry Henry

Sanguillen is totally unpredictable to pitch to because he's so unpredictable. — Jerry Coleman

All the pirates, and Lord Pitch's mercy, were dead in less time than it takes to sing a song. — William Joyce

Magic is the only way to describe it, climbing pitch after pitch of the most perfect, beautifully sculpted granite in the world. — Ron Kauk

I'm trained in musical theatre and 'Pitch Perfect' is the first movie where I get to really belt out. I beat Adele for that role. — Rebel Wilson

I'm a pitchman, my business comes from the pitch, nothing else. — Billy Mays

Julie's voice could have been used to tune a piano. She was pitch perfect - and I never was. I was enjoyably close. — Dick Van Dyke

I need to stay calm and just pitch my game. — CC Sabathia

I'm always happy to pitch in and do something. Everybody needs to be laughing a little. — Chelsea Handler

Living at that pitch, on that edge, is something which many poets engage in to some extent. — Paul Muldoon

About how it feels to be alone and the depth of the darkness surrounding me. Darkness as pitch black as the night of the new moon. — Haruki Murakami

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

What I always do is just look at the players, look at the best 11 they can put on the pitch. — Alan Hansen

Never make a sales pitch as the way you introduce yourself. What you CAN say is how you help people and businesses. — Beth Ramsay

Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at. — Laurence Sterne

When I'm healthy, I can still pitch. I know I can still pitch at that level and get the results that I want. — Randy Johnson

Turner was like a pencil. He bent around that pitch! — Jerry Coleman

At the end of the day, the Arsenal fans demand that we put eleven players on the pitch — Don Howe

If certain players do not carry out their tasks properly on the pitch then their colleagues will suffer. — Louis Van Gaal

Playing shortstop is 75 to 80 percent anticipation, knowing the hitter and the pitch being thrown. — Lou Boudreau

Learn the art of the pitch and of messaging. — Tim Ferriss

You don't want to pitch a tent and live inside the Louvre. You want to check it out, appreciate it, and move somewhere else. — John Oates

Think about each pitch like you think about women, then select one which is particularly appealing. — Tommy Lasorda

I think I work harder on the pitch, I cover more ground and my passing is more accurate. — Frank Lampard

Yeah I think Pitch Black was edgy, I think that's what worked for our film. — Radha Mitchell

Think. Don't just swing. Think about the pitcher, what he threw you last time up, his best pitch, who's up next. Think. — Ted Williams

I hope to build a reputation as a science-fiction writer. That's the pitch. We'll see. — Kurt Vonnegut

It's not just what you do on the pitch, it's what you do off the pitch. — Paul Ince

I remember seeing 'Pitch Perfect' and loving it right away. It's hilarious! — Chrissie Fit

Perfect pitch is genetic. It's 100% genetic. — Craig Venter

No matter how good a man is, there's always some horse can pitch him. — John Steinbeck

If patriotism is a scoundrel's last refuge, then the concept of freedom is his first sales pitch. — James Rozoff

But he's the most familiar thing in this house, and I fall asleep better, listening to Baz breathe, than I have since winter break started. — Rainbow Rowell

It's good to see a kid that
young learning how to pitch. He's tough. — Jorge Posada

Life's a pitch, then you buy. — Billy Mays

Bayern's midfielder, Owen Hargreaves, who scampered around the pitch like an office boy on amphetamines for the last 25 minutes or so. — Rod Liddle

Men are always more inclined to pitch their estimate of the enemy's strength too high than too low, such is human nature. — Carl Von Clausewitz

If there's one pitch you keep swinging at and keep missing, stop swinging at it. — Yogi Berra

There's no easier pitch to hit than a splitter that doesn't do anything. — Whitey Ford

I kind of realized I couldn't blow the ball by everybody. In high school I could do that, but now it's not going to work. I need to pitch.' — Justin Verlander

Going into a cave might be like going inside one's own mind, crawling around in the pitch-black, nook-and-crannied labyrinth of the human psyche. — Barbara Hurd

It's always darkest before it turns absolutely pitch black. — Paul Newman

What's nice about investing is you don't have to swing at every pitch. — Warren Buffett

When a professional baseball team asks you to throw out the first pitch, that's an honor, and you do it. — Bubba Watson