#pitch

All us Youngs could throw. I used to kill squirrels with a stone when I was a kid, and my granddad once killed a turkey buzzard on the fly with a rock. ↗

— Cy Young

#get #good #got #hit #lucky

If you want something that's going to provide you with a lot of challenges and a variety of different things to do, then you really can't beat a place like the Air Force. I don't mean this to sound like a recruiting pitch. But it's been a lot of fun. ↗

— Michael P. Anderson

#air force #beat #been #challenges #different

I first pitched the idea of doing a series of cartoons based on Bible stories. They didn't much like it. ↗

— Joseph Barbera

#bible #cartoons #doing #first #i

The three of us pitched in $15,000 a piece to get it started. ↗

— Marvin Davis

#piece #pitched #started #three #us

These days, my main guitar amps have been Magnatone. They're beautiful. Magnatones have actual tremolo, which I recently learned about guitar amps. Often what guitar amps call vibrato is really just a volume Up and Down. But Magnatone has a true vibrato, which is pitch bending. And so, it's just a lush sound. ↗

— Ani DiFranco

#actual #amps #beautiful #been #bending

I think the changeup has become more popular recently by pitchers like Pedro Martinez and the success he had with it. ↗

— David Cone

#had #i #i think #like #martinez

He was a fantastic player, but the thing that impressed me most about Paul was his manner off the pitch. He was always very humble about his achievements and had a lot of time for the paying public and people in general. ↗

— Kenny Cunningham

#achievements #always #fantastic #general #had

You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain. ↗

— Leo Durocher

#pitcher #rain #save #tomorrow #you

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

#elevates #event #every #feels #game

Life's a pitch, then you buy. ↗

— Billy Mays

#life #pitch #then #you