Pitchers Quotes (page 2)

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• eyes
• words
• free

Count up the almonds, Count what was bitter and kept you waking, Count me in too: I sought your eye when you glanced up and no one would see you, I spun that secret thread Where the dew you mused on Slid down to pitchers Tended by a word that reached no one’s heart. There you first fully entered the name that is yours, you stepped to yourself on steady feet, the hammers swung free in the belfry of your silence, things overheard thrust through to you, what’s dead put it’s arm around you... Paul Celan

• hurt
• thinking
• walking

I think I know what's wrong with you... Walk up onto that pitcher's mound... Does your stomach hurt now?"Yes! Ow! Ooo! Yes!"All right, now come down off the mound... There... Has it stopped hurting?"Yes... Yes, I think it has!"There's your trouble... Five cents, please! Charles M. Schulz

• personal
• men
• focus

When you come [to a baseball game] in person, you direct your own focus, you know? The TV or the radio men, they might focus on the pitcher when you want to see what first base is doing; and you don't have any choice but to accept it. Anne Tyler

• baseball
• nature
• game

Your body is not made to throw like we throw. That's why you see softball pitchers pitching two or three games a day. It's a natural movement in softball. In baseball it's not a natural movement. Jamie Moyer

• consistency
• any
• importantly

If you talk to any pitcher, consistency is the most important thing. Jamie Moyer

• hard
• because
• pitcher

But because I could throw so hard when I got to college they made me a pitcher. Shemar Moore

• confidence
• trying
• tries

The oldest pitcher acquires confidence in his ballclub - he doesn't try to do it all himself. Burleigh Grimes

• moments
• baseball
• tough

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

• crush
• crushes
• crushed

When I was 12, I had a coach tell me I would never be a championship pitcher. That devastated me. I was crushed. Jennie Finch

• house
• positive
• white

In the White House, you can be on the pitcher's mound or you can be in the catcher's position. Put points on the board. Show people you can govern. Deliver on what you said you were going to deliver on. Rahm Emanuel

• rain
• may
• tomorrow

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

• reading
• mind
• mindfulness

In the olden days, the umpire didn't have to take any courses in mind reading. The pitcher told you he was going to throw at you. Leo Durocher

• ifs
• reminds
• hitters

The pitcher has to find out if the hitter is timid, and if he is timid, he has to remind the hitter he's timid. Don Drysdale

• world
• play
• anybody

Anybody who's ever had the privilege of seeing me play knows that I am the greatest pitcher in the world. Dizzy Dean

• time
• chance
• giving

I study pitchers. I visualize pitches. That gives me a better chance every time I step into the box. That doesn't mean I'm going to get a hit every game, but that's one of the reasons I've come a long way as a hitter. Mark McGwire