#pitch

You can take 100 penalties in training, but when you go out on that pitch in front of all those people and the television cameras, it's completely different. ↗

— Alan Shearer

#completely #different #front #go #out

No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball. ↗

— Casey Stengel

#catcher #could #darn #fastball #handle

Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa. ↗

— Casey Stengel

#good #hitting #pitching #stop #will

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

— Laurence Stern

#brave #forgive #generous #how #human

A woman would pitch a joke. Nothing. Then a guy would pitch it and everybody would laugh. ↗

— Wanda Sykes

#guy #joke #laugh #nothing #pitch

I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice. ↗

— Hank Aaron

#batting #down #even #i #middle

During my time, there might have been one pitcher or two that were top pitchers on a team. Teams that won maybe had three, but today they have a lot of depth. They have a lot of long relievers, short relievers, and the strategy is different. ↗

— Ernie Banks

#depth #different #during #had #long

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

— Pete Conrad

#clear #going #got #i #pitch

That whole thing about, 'Hey, ex-catchers are the best managers.' Listen, pitching coaches have some brains, too. Sometimes they're not all there, but sometimes they are. ↗

— Don Cooper

#best #brains #coaches #hey #listen

Fix your eye on the ball from the moment the pitcher holds it in his glove. Follow it as he throws to the plate and stay with it until the play is completed. Action takes place only where the ball goes. ↗

— Bill Klem

#ball #completed #eye #fix #follow