108 Pitch Quotes
Following is our list of pitch quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about elevator pitch.
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Famous Pitch Quotes
Pitching is the art of instilling fear. — Sandy Koufax
Mental attitude and concentration are the keys to pitching. — Ferguson Jenkins
A pitcher needs two pitches, one they're looking for and one to cross them up. — Warren Spahn
No self-respecting pitcher throws the same way to every batter and no self-respecting salesman makes the same pitch to every client. — Ray Kroc
The reason we call that pitch up and in is because the arms are attached to the shoulder. — Tim Mccarver
Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing. — Warren Spahn
Show me a guy who can't pitch inside and I'll show you a loser. — Sandy Koufax
Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa. — Casey Stengel
Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa. — Casey (Charles Dillon) Stengel
The screwball's an unnatural pitch. Nature never intended a man to turn his hand like that throwing rocks at a bear. — Carl Hubbell
Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things. — Robert Frost
A pitcher has to look at the hitter as his mortal enemy. — Early Wynn
A guy that throws what he intends to throw, that's the definition of a good pitcher. — Sandy Koufax
See the ball; hit the ball. — Pete Rose
I'll let the racket do the talking. — John McEnroe
Short Pitch Quotes
- The best pitchers have a short term memory and a bullet proof confidence. — Greg Maddux
- The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers. — Earl Weaver
- These days, people want to learn before they buy, be educated instead of pitched. — Brian Clark
- The natural state of the football fan is bitter disappointment, no matter what the score. — Nick Hornby
- Pitch-black winter nights live in my bones. — Friedrich Nietzsche
- The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love. — Bryant Gumbel
- No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball. — Casey Stengel
- The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means. — Henry Taylor
- All I know is that if I continue to pitch well, good things will keep happening. — Justin Verlander
- Family is everything. It is even more important than baseball. — Luis Tiant
Football Pitch Quotes
Players that aren't true leaders but try to be, always bash other players after a mistake. True leaders on the pitch already assume others will make mistakes. — Sayings
Dave Mackay was the kind of footballer that legends are built around. He was simply the greatest - tough as teak on the pitch and a real gentleman off it. — Alex Salmond
I fell in love with football as I was later to fall in love with women: suddenly, inexplicably, uncritically, giving no thought to the pain or disruption it would bring with it. — Nick Hornby
I love playing football, being out on the pitch with a ball, and I will be a little sad when that ends. — Dennis Bergkamp
We won't ever see another one like Paul Scholes. He is a legend and a real benchmark. He is not interested in the modern-day footballer's life off the pitch, but he is a world-class player on it. — Darren Fletcher
I developed a mechanism so that whatever mistakes I made, I would bounce straight back. Whatever was happening off the pitch, I could put it to one side and maintain my form. Call it mental resilience or a strong mind, but that is what we mean when we talk about experience in a football team. — Gary Neville
Every single player on the pitch is now in the Birmingham box, apart from two of them. — Paul Merson
For years Paul Scholes has been one of the best players in the Premiership. He's incredible. He has always been under-rated throughout his career. He's a team player, a one and two-touch footballer who makes good decisions on the pitch and makes his team play. — Thierry Henry
The score is high and very brutal but does not reflect what we saw on the pitch. The first shot on goal was a goal. The second was an own goal. The third was straight after half-time. They defend like mad and they catch us on the break. — Arsene Wenger
Some people come to Old Trafford and can't spell football, let alone understand it. They have a few drinks and a prawn sandwich but don't realise what's happening on the pitch — Roy Keane
Elevator Pitch Quotes
Carlton does not pitch to the hitter, he pitches through him. The batter hardly exists for Steve. He's playing an elevated game of catch. — Tim Mccarver
I look at this as a second life. Every game feels like an event. Every pitch matters. I need that. It elevates your aggressiveness. — Al Leiter
Hey, hitting is hard-if you make good pitches that aren't elevated in the zone, you're going to have success. — Eli Manning
The purpose of an elevator pitch is to describe a situation or solution so compelling that the person you're with wants to hear more even after the elevator ride is over. — Seth Godin
Business Pitch Quotes
You figure they cheat at the ballpark, they'll cheat on the golf course, they'll cheat in business, and anything else in life. Players may laugh about it and say it's funny, but right down in their heart, they don't think it's funny at all, and they have no respect for a person who cheats. — Bob Feller
It's a bottom line business where a lot of gray suits are brought in and then, within two years, these guys suddenly know everything about baseball. — Don Drysdale
I'm a pitchman, my business comes from the pitch, nothing else. — Billy Mays
In the television business, I don't think anyone will let you go in and pitch a show unless you use the words 'organizing principle' or 'this is the prism through which we see their lives'. — Jackie Schaffer
For one thing, there's an essential human factor in every business endeavor. It doesn't matter if you have a perfect product, production plan and marketing pitch; you'll still need the right people to lead and implement those plans. — Bill Gates
The thing I hate about the film business, is having to pitch your idea. — Crispian Mills
Entrepreneurs always pitch their idea as 'the X of Y,' so this is going to be 'the Microsoft of food.' And yet disruptive innovations usually don't have that character. Most of the time, if something seems like a good idea, it probably isn't. — Eric Ries
What's nice about investing is you don't have to swing at every pitch. — Warren Buffett
You've been busy using your breaking and entering skills," I said. "I just enter. I don't usually break." "You broke down Pitch's door." "Lost my temper." -Ranger and Stephanie — Janet Evanovich
Fever Pitch Quotes
The role seemed to demand that I keep myself worked up to fever pitch, so I took on the actual attributes of the horrible vampire, Dracula. — Bela Lugosi
For alarmingly large chunks of an average day, I am a moron. — Nick Hornby
Some can just knock it out and some have to lock themselves in a room and get to a fever pitch of self-loathing before they turn in a first draft. . . . each writer's process is screwed up in its own way. — Warren Leight
In the 500-channel universe, which may, of course, contain many more channels than 500, the fun never stops - fun at such a fever pitch as to sometimes seem threatening, numbing, even agonizing. — Tom Shales
When I'm not working I'm a slug - a full slug. I am not good at the in-between. I'm either fever-pitched or want to just pass out on a beach with a really sleazy book and eat a cheeseburger. — Michael Kors
Pitch Perfect Quotes
Your accord and harmonious love is a hymn to Jesus Christ...in perfect harmony, and taking your pitch from God, you may sing in unison and in one voice to the Father through Jesus Christ. — Ignatius of Antioch
However, the fact that the tanks had now been raised to such a pitch of technical perfection that they could cross our undamaged trenches and obstacles did not fail to have a marked effect on our troops. — Paul von Hindenburg
The shortstop is a perfectly conditioned athlete. You're running out on relays all the time. You're covering second base. On every pitch, you're moving. — Lou Boudreau
Richard Barager has written THE novel of the Sixties - a passion-filled, pitch-perfect, roller coaster of a tale about the decade that divides us all. — David Horowitz
His teeth sang in their individual sockets like tuning forks, each one pitch-perfect and clear as ethanol. — William Gibson
I've let go of being a super perfectionist on every single note and wanting the pitch to be absolutely perfect all of the time. I grew up watching the best of the best. — Solange Knowles
To a pitcher, a base hit is the perfect example of negative feedback. — Steve Hovley
I don't have perfect pitch, but I have relative pitch. I'm glad I don't have perfect pitch because perfect pitch can drive you crazy. — Billy Eckstine
I never thought I'd get [a 'Pitch Perfect 2'] audition because the film was just so massive. — Chrissie Fit
I'm so humble it's crazy. I'm like the Kanye West of humility. — Anna Kendrick
People Writing About Pitch
| Name | Quotes | Likes |
|---|---|---|
 Sandy Koufax |
19 | 379 |
 Warren Spahn |
17 | 144 |
 Casey Stengel |
136 | 1217 |
 Ray Kroc |
71 | 812 |
 Tim Mccarver |
23 | 170 |
 Carl Hubbell |
9 | 51 |
More Pitch Quotes
And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind is closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader and do it gladly so. — Julius Caesar
In the City of Death, there is pitch darkness and huge clouds of dust, neither sister nor brother is there. This body is frail, old age is overtaking it. — Guru Gobind Singh
My pitch is very simple. I'm Theresa May and I think I'm the best person to be prime minister of this country. — Theresa May
It's not the disability that defines you; it's how you deal with the challenges the disability presents you with. — Jim Abbott
Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the desires and affections, captivating the willing hearers, and subduing their understanding. — David Hume
Whatever form it takes, camping is earthy, soul enriching and character building, and there can be few such satisfying moments as having your tent pitched and the smoke rising from your campfire as the golden sun sets on the horizon--even if it's just for a fleeting moment before the rain spoils everything. — Pippa Middleton
In dark ages people are best guided by religion, as in a pitch-black night a blind man is the best guide; he knows the roads and paths better than a man who can see. When daylight comes, however, it is foolish to use blind, old men as guides. — Heinrich Heine
In my study I can lay my hand on the Bible in the pitch dark. All truly inspired ideas come from God. The powers from which all truly great composers like Mozart, Schubert, Bach and Beethoven drew their inspirations is the same power that enabled Jesus to do his miracles. — Johannes Brahms
I suppose life is a little like that, isn't it, a message in a bottle pitched out to sea, to be carried by the winds and the tides, washing up on the beaches we could never imagine. — Gene Tierney
All you umpires, back to the bleachers. Referees, hit the showers. It's my game. I pitch, I hit, I catch. I run the bases. At sunset, I've won or lost. At sunrise, I'm out again, giving it the old try. — Ray Bradbury
I pass and I move, I help you, I look for you, I stop, I raise my head, I look and, above all, I open up the pitch...The one who has the ball, is the master of the game...Thats the school of Joan Vilà, of Albert Benaiges, of Johan Cruijff, of Pep Guardiola — Xavi
It is only against the pitch blackness of the night that we see the glory of the stars. And it is only against the pitch blackness of man's radical depravity that we can begin to see the glories of the gospel. — Paul Washer
If Satch (Paige) and I were pitching on the same team, we would clinch the pennant by July fourth and go fishing until World Series time. — Dizzy Dean
Whenever you have a tight situation and there's a close pitch, the umpire gets a squawk no matter how he calls it. — Red Barber
They have a few drinks, and maybe the prawn sandwiches, and they don't realise what's going on out on the pitch. — Roy Keane
Even when we're blindfolded, even when you're wearing sunglasses, even in the pitch black of night, we can always tell if you just ogled another woman. — Maria Bartiromo
I only think about the pitch. I want to do great. I want to be one of the best. I want to win titles. I want to achieve things. — Paul Pogba
In no culture ever studied have women repeatedly preferred to mate with pear-shaped, low-status, tepid men possessing high-pitched, nasal voices. — Gad Saad
Radical feminists have been making the pitch that justice demands that men and women be given an equal opportunity to make it to the top in the workplace. — Rick Santorum
I've learned over the years that it doesn't matter where you pitch in the rotation. For me, preparation is everything. — Cory Lidle
I'm not afraid to swing the bat. If they elect to pitch to me, I'm going to swing. I'm not as picky as Mr. Sheffield. I'll swing at something over my head. — Bobby Bonilla
Bob Gibson is the luckiest pitcher I ever saw. He always pitches when the other team doesn't score any runs. — Tim Mccarver
We always hope for the easy fix: the one simple change that will erase a problem in a stroke. But few things in life work this way. Instead, success requires making a hundred small steps go right - one after the other, no slipups, no goofs, everyone pitching in. — Atul Gawande
My accomplishments were not won by virtue of some life-hack. Nor by taking any short cuts. I didn't leverage some 'new idea' or act upon a secret previously unbeknownst to man. No, my accomplishments were wrought through pain. Through relentless perseverance and unwavering persistence. Through a commitment to being a little bit better today than I was yesterday. I am here because I embraced the journey, and all the pitches it could throw. I am here because I had extreme faith--in myself, in my song, and in something powerful beyond the self. And then, I busted my ass. — Rich Roll
In Brooklyn, it was as though you were in your own little bubble. You were all part of one big, but very close family, and the Dodgers were the main topic of everybody's conversations and you could sense the affection people had for you. I don't know that such a thing exists anymore. — Don Drysdale
I try to work to improve myself every day, and I try to do on the pitch what I do during the training sessions. — Kylian Mbappe
I did get upset once, when we were hiking between pitches 15 and 16. Two women and a dog were trying to find their way down through the maze of trails below the First Summit and they asked us: 'Are you on the trail?' I let my indignity show: 'NO, we're on a CLIMB!' — Andy Cairns
Paul Scholes has been the best England midfield player for 30-odd years. You'd probably have to go back to Bobby Charlton to find someone who could do as much as Scholes. When the ball arrives at his feet he could tell you where every player on that pitch is at that moment. His awareness is superb. — Gordon Strachan
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