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.

R. Inge

It's not the same fastball he used to throw. But he's smart enough to mix 'em up.

Carlos Zambrano

I tried to throw a fastball inside, and the ball kind of slipped out of my hand where I didn't want to throw it. That was a big mistake. If I walk Chipper in that situation and get a groundball with the next hitter, then nothing happens and I should win the game 2-0.

Luis Sojo

They're fastball hitters and they're very aggressive. They jumped on the fastballs.

Bobby Kielty

It was one of those things -- when it got to be 2-0, I wanted to see a fastball and get a hack on it.

Eric Chavez

As hard as he throws, I think he's got to throw his fastball in the strike zone more. Then he can pitch off his fastball. Every successful pitcher in this game pitches off the fastball.

Matt Kobli

I usually throw between 120 and 130 pitches in a game. My fastball did me in today as I couldn't hit my spot and they were on top of it.

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.

Tim Short

We've won playoff games before, but not down 18 on someone else's home court. Yeah, this is pretty special.

Mike Pomerenke

We've won more games this year than we'd won all of last year already. And you know, that's a huge improvement.

Chris Bosh

You don't have to appreciate me - I hope you underestimate me. That way, when I have a good game, it'll hit you even harder.

Chris Bosh

I've modeled my game after Kevin Garnett and Tim Duncan.

Chris Bosh

I know how the game is played, and I'm always working on it.

Eddie Kaye Thomas

If I have the TV on, it's either a Mets game or 'SportsCenter.'

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.

Ed Bradley

There was no one around me who didn't work hard.

David Riesman

There is evidence that young men in the big law firms, although they still work harder than most of their clients, do not glory in putting in night work and weekend hours as they once did.

David Hockney

Every good artist I know, I always think works hard, we're working all the time.

Derek Fisher

You have to work hard at things.

Derek Jeter

It doesn't take talent to work hard.

Derek Jeter

I love it when people doubt me. It makes me work harder to prove them wrong.

Dee Dee Ramone

It's very hard to tour.

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.

Casey Stengel

Nobody ever had too many of them (pitchers).

Bruce Bochy

Woody has been pitching better than Brian. We'll talk about it.

Clint Hurdle

We've got Day in place. We've got Fogg in place. We've got pitchers to step up if they need to step up.

Early Wynn

A pitcher is only as good as his legs.

Bob Feller

I just reared back and let them go.

Bob Gibson

When I gave up a grand slam to Pete LaCock, I knew it was time to quit.

Casey Stengel

Nobody ever had too many of them (pitchers).

Clint Hurdle

We've got Day in place. We've got Fogg in place. We've got pitchers to step up if they need to step up.

Jason Bay

A lot of it probably has to do with the pitchers that they've had.

Mark Mulder

There's a lot of pitchers who've got it. That's an out pitch for them. It's a big pitch.

Joel Rogers

(Teams) all prepare better for better pitching now. Your pitcher has to be able to do other things now. You just can't throw it by people.

Max Bukovac

The worry spots are pitcher and catcher. But they just have to have time to get comfortable with each other.

John Nance

The vice-presidency isn't worth a pitcher of warm piss

Augie Garrido

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

Mike Reagan

Didn't throw a strike. (Miller) was all over the place.I don't think I have seen an inning like that inning in the first inning. Our pitchers didn't get it done today.

Mariano Rivera

I trust my pitches, ... I trust my pitches and I trust my teammates.

Ramiro Mendoza

No problems ... I'm fine. All my pitches are good.

Harry Tholen

Norris has been opportunistic. Every time he pitches we score runs.

Tracy Sutton

The more he pitches the better he is. If he has a very long lay-off, it takes him a while to get back into the rhythm, so we throw him as much as possible. He's a rhythm man. ... today, he threw pretty good.

Russ Ortiz

The most important thing is that I'm able to throw all my pitches for strikes.

Ivan Rodriguez

I should take more walks. But I'm very aggressive. In the off-season, I'm going to work on taking more pitches and being more selective. If I'm more selective, I can have some better numbers.

Brandon Claussen

Things are going well. I can't complain, ... I used all of my pitches and I'm very pleased with the results.

Todd Abbott

Zach (Hedges) started out a little shaky. But then he settled down and only threw 66 pitches through six innings. That is phenomenal.

Suzy Buchholtz

Boom, boom, boom, boom, and at 7:40 everyone's gone. Everyone pitches in.

Siv Meisingseth

We have no idea how long the strike will last.

Ron Gettelfinger

It would be presumptuous for us to say that there would be a strike and it would be just as presumptuous for someone to say there would not be.

Lauren Asplen

It was unanimous to authorize a strike if needed.

Richard Maloney

This is a strike that should not have happened.

Dave Vestal

We showed we could strike through the air. We showed we could come back.

Tim Palmer

I don't think lightning's going to strike this tree again,

Clint Hurdle

He really struggled to throw any strikes (on the third-base side) of the plate,

Jonathan Genant

If he had taken another strike at me, I wouldn't be here today.

George Herbert

You must strike in measure, when there are many to strike on one Anvile.

Alan Ball

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

David Brenner

Entrepreneurs with disabilities are overwhelmingly successful.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I will not change. Because if you are successful and you change, you are an idiot.

Ben Stiller

Sometimes I wondered whether I hadn't let my career get confined to one direction, but lately I've decided to accept the fact that I have this opportunity to be successful doing comedies.

Armstrong Williams

You must develop personal contacts if you want to be successful.

Armstrong Williams

Bottom line: if you show a genuine interest in learning about how others became successful, you can open up a world of opportunities.

Denis Waitley

Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.

Denis Waitley

The truly successful person inspires others to do more than they have thought possible for themselves.

Deborah Kerr

At the top of the list of what makes a successful marriage, is a sense of humor.

Keion Carpenter

They tried to throw it a little more once he got in there. Other than that, it was the same kind of outfit.

David Berry

You can't keep throwing us around. Accommodate your own people.

John Cornforth

You can throw that out of the window.

Brian Schmidt

You can throw it out or you can do what you want.

Derek Jeter

You can throw everything everybody's done up to now out the window,

Jack Kokinda

This is the time of year you want him throwing this way.

Maureen Allyn

This may be what throws us into recession.

Robert Jordan

I told him, 'I'm going to be there for you,' ... 'Whatever you throw up for me, I'll go get.'

Michael Robinson

They're in my ear, 'Tell 'em to throw it deep, Mike, throw it deep. They want the ball, and they're going to make some plays.

David Lange

An itinerant masseur, massaging the politically erogenous zones.

Jeb Putzier

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

Chris Hovan

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

Pat Metheny

I was deep in the zone of practicing almost constantly

John Goodwin

Some of that is a construction zone now,

Robbie Tobeck

He's kind of in the zone right now.

Rick Renteria

He was up in the zone a little too much.

Mark Cuban

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