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«If you can get an out on one pitch, take it. Let the strikeouts come on the outstanding pitches. Winning is the big thing. If you throw a lot of pitches, before you know it, your arm is gone.»
«Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball.»
Author: Jim Murray
(Writer)
| About:
Baseball
| Keywords:
anywhere, ball game, Ball games, baseball game, curve, curved, curve ball, curving, legal, On The Ball, optical, optical illusion, pitch, pitches, pitch in, pitch into, screwball, screwballs, spat, spit, spits, spitted, spitting, spit out, stealing, umpire, umpired, Umpiring
«God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of the players, (ie everybody), to being involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.»
Author: Neil Gaiman
(Children's author, Comics writer, Journalist, Novelist, Screenwriter)
| About:
God,
Universe
| Keywords:
compared, complex, Dark Room, devising, dice, ineffable, my version, obscure, own version, perspective, pitch-dark, pitch, pitches, pitch in, pitch into, players, plays, poker, pokers, poker game, Poker Player, The Dark Room, version, versions
«The dumber a pitcher is, the better. When he gets smart and begins to experiment with a lot of different pitches, he's in trouble. All I ever had was a fastball, a curve and a changeup and I did pretty good.»
«I study pitchers. I visualize pitches. That gives me a better chance every time I step into the box. That doesn't mean I'm going to get a hit every game, but that's one of the reasons I've come a long way as a hitter.»
Author: Mark McGwire
(Baseball Player)
| Keywords:
game of chance, one box, pitchers, pitches, The Box
«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.»
«A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly.»
Author: Robert Heinlein
| Keywords:
accounts, analyze, balance, bone, butcher, butchered, butchers, computer program, cone, cones, cook, cooperate, cooperated, cooperating, design, diaper, diapers, efficiently, Equations, gallantly, hog, invasion, invasions, manure, meal, orders, pitch, pitches, pitch in, pitch into, program, ship, sonnet, Sonnets, take orders, tasty, wall