#pitch

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

#got #nature #nothing #nowadays #out

I, of course, wanted to do something with Drew Barrymore. Please. So we were reading scripts back and forth and then we found this script, Fever Pitch. ↗

— Jimmy Fallon

#barrymore #course #drew #drew barrymore #fever

You can actually have a pitch button, you know, to get people on pitch. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#button #get #know #people #pitch

Most times when people pitch you as being perfect for a part... they don't look at you as an actor who can transform. A lot of people are so literal. ↗

— Catherine Keener

#being #literal #look #lot #most

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

— Bob Feller

#game #hit #i #pitch #rather

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

#baseball #behind #busy #corn #country

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

#between #cases #did #difference #i

I got that nickname my first spring training camp with the Expos in 1974. Tim Foli, Ken Singleton and Mike Jorgensen started calling me 'Kid' because I was trying to win every sprint. I was trying to hit every pitch out of the park. ↗

— Gary Carter

#calling #camp #every #first #got

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

#any #beating #believe #brazil #four

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

— Rio Ferdinand

#high #high standards #i #know #lived