Famous Quotes & Sayings

Clint Hurdle

We want to see his command, we want him to utilize his pitches, ... We also want to see him use his two-seam fastball and sinkerball.

Ned Yost

Tomo was very crisp today. He was sharp, he was throwing his fastball as hard as he has all year.

Chris Moore

Usually, I like to come in with a straight fastball and take it from there. Sometimes, I'll work in my slider. Everything seemed to be working today, so it was real good.

Joe Blanton

The (pitch to Rivera) was a fastball in and that's something I need to work on.

Scott Mathieson

When he hit that ball, it was a batting-practice fastball over the plate and he hit it on the screws. It went to the furthest part of the park.

Andruw Jones

When guys make mistakes you have to take advantage. He made a mistake with the fastball the first time.

Ron Gardenhire

Poise? I don't think we're talking about poise here. I think we're talking about a 97 mph fastball with a curveball from hell.

Mike Trapasso

Matt throws a plus slider, but the fastball is his foremost pitch.

Stephen Faris

One mistake is all it takes with these kind of bats. It was supposed to be a fastball in, but it wasn't in enough.

Charles Dickens

Battledore and shuttlecock's a wery good game, vhen you an't the shuttlecock and two lawyers the battledores, in which case it gets too exciting to be pleasant.

Charles Dickens

To bring deserving things down by setting undeserving things up is one of its perverted delights; and there is no playing fast and loose with the truth, in any game, without growing the worse for it.

Charles Stross

I'm not planning a kickstarter game. And I'm not really a game designer.

Alan Watts

The Universe is the game of the self, which plays hide and seek forever and ever.

Alan Watts

Substances like LSD, which give away a secret about the nature of the social game - the human game and what underlies it - are potentially dangerous, of course, like any good thing is. Electricity is dangerous, fire is dangerous, cars are dangerous, planes are dangerous, but not so dangerous as driving on the freeway. The only way to handle danger is to face it. If you start getting frightened of it, then you make it worse. Because you project onto it all kinds of bogeys and threats which don't exist in it at all.

Alan Moore

They say that life's a game, & then they take the board away.

Alan Green

You don't score 64 goals in 86 games at the highest level without being able to score goals.

Al Alvarez

The point is that it looks like gambling because the language of the game is money.

Al Alvarez

Hold'em is a game of calculated aggression. If your cards are good enough for you to call a bet, they are good enough to raise with.

Charles Dickens

Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else.

Charles Dickens

Now, what I want is, Facts. . . . Facts alone are wanted in life.

Alan Perlis

Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.

Alain Prost

I have no problem with the people who work hard to get success. But I think people are very jealous about success. I work very hard and they don't appreciate that.

Al Pacino

Acting is hard work. At times, it's very energizing and enervating. It's childish. It's also responsible. It's illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It's bizarre, diabolical. It's exciting.

Akshay Kumar

I'm glad that I'm being acclaimed as an actor. Today, when my hard work has paid off I can chill out about it.

David McCullough

The title always comes last. What I really work hard on is the beginning. Where do you begin? In what tone do you begin? I almost have to have a scene in my mind.

David McCullough

When the founders wrote about life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, they didn't mean longer vacations and more comfortable hammocks. They meant the pursuit of learning. The pursuit of improvement and excellence. In hard work is happiness.

David Krumholtz

Hail, Caesar! is about, in my opinion - I love that movie - but I think it's about the idea that as glamorous as the business is, and for as much hoopla that surrounds moviemaking, ultimately it's just a job. If you focus on it, you can do it really well, and it takes a lot of hard work.

Casey Stengel

You can't go out to the mound, hobbling and take a pitcher out with a cane.

Casey Stengel

Nobody ever had too many of them (pitchers).

Early Wynn

I don't like losing a ballgame any more than a salesman likes losing a sale.

Early Wynn

A pitcher is only as good as his legs.

Carl Relyea

We have a solid pitching staff and should be solid defensively. We should be a competitive team in a very strong division.

Marc Gustafson

We want him to pitch in surroundings where he's comfortable and we can travel to see him pitch.

Pedro Martinez

We want him to pitch as much as possible.

Buddy Bell

Walk A-Rod? And pitch to Giambi? How about that one?

Mickey Hatcher

The pitch Moyer threw had to be a foot-and-a-half off the plate.

Casey Stengel

You can't go out to the mound, hobbling and take a pitcher out with a cane.

Casey Stengel

Nobody ever had too many of them (pitchers).

English 14th Century Proverbs

The pitcher will go to the well once too often.

Dan Hogan

She has a variety of pitchers that make her successful.

Jeff Messer

Most pitchers have one pitch to strike out batters. Derek has three.

Augie Garrido

We ran into two pitchers that year who shut us down.

Bill Buscetto

We won't see a better pitcher all season.

Kelly Ryan

Right now I think we have two of the top pitchers in the state on our team.

Darin Erstad

Only our pitchers have been playing well. We've been scratching and clawing for runs. We'll find a way to get it done any way we can, but we've been inconsistently offensively.

Derek Jeter

Moose, don't tell me you're throwing all your pitches yet, are you?

Jeff Blauser

He could throw two pitches for strikes pretty much whenever he wanted. When you can do that, you'll be pretty effective.

Bobby Howard

He just started to get his pitches up. I thought he pitched well enough to win.

Lou Piniella

He's a lot responsible for the way we've played. To me, he's pitching with a lot more confidence. You can see it out there. But that's what winning does for you. You get aggressive, you make better pitches and you make better choices.

A.J. Burnett

I threw a lot of pitches early, a lot of 2-2 counts, a lot of 3-2 counts. You've got to put them away when you get ahead.

Ralph Carlson

He must have fouled off 24 pitches in a row before he got that hit.

Jim Tracy

When he's right, he's throwing quality pitches down there.

Ken Howe

We swung at a lot of first pitches and got outs. It minimized what he had to do for work on the mound. My hat's off to him.

Jack Leggett

His was up around 95 pitches and that's all he is going to go. We have to be able to stop it there.

Siv Meisingseth

We have no idea how long the strike will last.

Connie Mack

You're born with two strikes against you, so don't take a third one on your own.

Richard Watson

We didn't strike to give up more and get less, but that's what happened.

Trevor Noah

I'm not an abrasive person. I do speak my mind, but my goal is never to offend. I don't intentionally want to strike a chord.

Rigoberto Medina

There is no connection. The nationwide strike has nothing to do with this.

Dan Nobbs

We throw strikes and play defense, that's pretty much our philosophy.

Lorenzo Bundy

He was pretty good, especially early. He pounded the strike zone, but he still has to work on his location.

Tom Pratt

I thought (Shaver) had big-league command. Everything was down in the zone. He threw 43 strikes in 58 pitches.

Derek Jeter

He was throwing strikes, that's the thing. You try to be patient, but if he's throwing strikes with it, you find yourself in the hole.

Charles Caleb Colton

Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us as those that are not wholly wrong, as no watches so effectively deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right.

Charles Sturt

The increasing importance of Sydney must in some measure be attributed to the flourishing condition of the colony itself, to the industry of its farmers, to the successful enterprise of its merchants, and to particular local causes.

Charles Spurgeon

Complicity with error will take from the best of men the power to enter any successful protest against it.

Alan Moore

Why do we argue? Life's so fragile, a successful virus clinging to a speck of mud, suspended in endless nothing.

Alan Greenspan

The probability of ten consecutive heads is 0.1 percent; thus, when you have millions of coin tossers, or investors, in the end there will be thousands of very successful practitioners of coin tossing, or stock picking.

Alan Greenspan

Corruption, embezzlement, fraud, these are all characteristics which exist everywhere. It is regrettably the way human nature functions, whether we like it or not. What successful economies do is keep it to a minimum. No one has ever eliminated any of that stuff.

Alan Bennett

The thing I think about is that once you've done it, you then start to think about what you're going to do next. It's much easier to follow something that's not been as successful as this.

Alan Ball

Not everything is going to be successful. To strive for that is really naive. You just do the best you can do.

Alan Alda

We're highly social animals - I'm told by scientists that what makes us different from other animals is an acute social awareness, which is what has made us so successful.

Al Oerter

I don't compete with other discus throwers. I compete with my own history.

Brian Bannister

When you throw strikes, they are going to get hits.

Carl Erskine

I've had pretty good success with Stan (Musial) by throwing him my best pitch and backing up third.

Keegan Bradley

When I throw a softball, there's no time to think about the motion of my arm. I just look at the first baseman's glove and react.

Russian Proverb

What the young one begs for, the grown-up throws away

Andre Johnson

We know we're not out there trying to throw games. If we were really trying to lose, how did we win this one?

Tara Garrett

She (Ronk) is doing the job. She's throwing hard.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Even the best of us are thrown off some- times.

George Johnson

There are vehicles tossed hither and yon just like throwing pick-up sticks,

David Lange

An itinerant masseur, massaging the politically erogenous zones.

Robbie Tobeck

He's kind of in the zone right now.

John Gibbons

He was in command. He was down in the zone all night.

Rick Renteria

He was up in the zone a little too much.

John Goodwin

Some of that is a construction zone now,

Mark Cuban

The first cities to create friction-free enterprise zones will get a lot of entrepreneurial traction.

Jeb Putzier

That's where we come in. We have to get in the end zone more.

Pat Metheny

I was deep in the zone of practicing almost constantly

Chris Hovan

You got to zone everything out and go out and do your assignment.