#itch

If you are used to going five innings and then go six or seven, you won't have your good stuff. They need to start that from the minor leagues and give pitchers strong arms. ↗

— Juan Marichal

#five #give #go #going #good

You had to pitch in and out. The zone didn't belong to the hitters; it belonged to the pitchers. Today, if you pitch too far inside, the umpire would stop you right there. I don't think it's fair. ↗

— Juan Marichal

#belonged #fair #far #had #hitters

When I was younger, I used to be a high jumper before I switched to hurdles. ↗

— Liu Xiang

#high #hurdles #i #switched #used

For my own part, I had rather suffer any inconvenience from having to work occasionally in chambers and kitchen... than witness the subservience in which the menial class is held in Europe. ↗

— Harriet Martineau

#chambers #class #europe #had #having

My brother never got an opportunity to throw a pitch, and I didn't want the same thing to happen to another young kid. ↗

— Pedro Martinez

#brother #got #happen #i #kid

It's only a hitch when you're in a slump. When you're hitting the ball its called rhythm. ↗

— Eddie Mathews

#called #hitch #hitting #only #rhythm

A pitcher is not a ballplayer. ↗

— Christy Mathewson

#pitcher

I owe everything I have to them when I'm out there on the mound. But I owe the fans nothing and they owe me nothing when I am not pitching. ↗

— Christy Mathewson

#everything #fans #i #i am #me

Well, maybe it has to do with the fact that I was a complete Hitchcock fanatic from age 9. ↗

— Armistead Maupin

#complete #fact #fanatic #hitchcock #i

We then journeyed on to London Street, down which the tidal ditch continues its course. ↗

— Henry Mayhew

#course #ditch #down #london #street