Pitch Quotes (page 8)

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• achievement
• play
• football

I've learnt and I just want to be respected for what I've achieved on the pitch. I know I haven't achieved much off it but I do know I've given pleasure to people watching me play football over the years. Paul Gascoigne

• his
• nolan ryan
• ball

Nolan Ryan is pitching much better now that he has his curve ball straightened out. Joe Garagiola

• winning
• hitting
• making

It's pitching, hitting and defense that wins. Any two can win. All three make you unbeatable. Joe Garagiola

• doing
• pitching
• easier

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

• pain
• bad
• start

Sooner or later the arm goes bad. It has to... Sooner or later you have to start pitching in pain. Whitey Ford

• believe
• rough
• time

Army life was rough. Would you believe it, they actually wanted me to pitch three times a week. Whitey Ford

• women
• men
• sometimes

But sometimes the women writers will pitch something and I'll hear it, but the men will keep talking. Wanda Sykes

• feeling
• walking
• walk away

I'm playing first base and pitching and hitting. I feel like I'm almost better than I've ever been. It's like, 'You're going to walk away like this?' Jennie Finch

• settings
• always
• myself

I set myself high standards on the pitch and I know I have not always lived up to them this season. Rio Ferdinand

• thinking
• believe
• team

Four years ago maybe we thought we were inferior to Brazil, subconsciously we didn't see ourselves beating them. Now we believe in ourselves, we can be on the pitch with any team in the world and think we can win. Rio Ferdinand

• simple
• today
• different

The difference between relief pitching when I did it today is simple, there is too much of it. It's one of those cases where more is not necessarily better. Bob Feller

• country
• baseball
• running

My father kept me busy from dawn to dusk when I was a kid. When I wasn't pitching hay, hauling corn or running a tractor, I was heaving a baseball into his mitt behind the barn... If all the parents in the country followed his rule, juvenile delinquency would be cut in half in a year's time. Bob Feller

• game
• hit
• than

I would rather beat the Yankees regularly than pitch a no hit game. Bob Feller

• nature
• nothing
• squeezing

Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed. Desiderius Erasmus

• parents
• house
• pitching

For a while we lived in a tent we'd pitched inside his parents' house and we slept on pillows. Shelley Duvall