Welcome to our curated collection of pitching quotes! Whether you’re a seasoned entrepreneur, a budding startup founder, or someone looking to refine their communication skills, the art of pitching is an indispensable tool in the world of business. From capturing investors’ attention to effectively conveying your vision, a well-crafted pitch can make all the difference in propelling your ideas forward.
Throughout history, great leaders, innovators, and thinkers have offered insights into the essence of pitching – the power of persuasion, the importance of clarity, and the art of storytelling. In this compilation, we gather pearls of wisdom from various sources, spanning industries and backgrounds, to inspire and guide you on your journey to mastering the art of the pitch. Whether you’re seeking motivation, guidance, or simply a fresh perspective, these quotes offer invaluable nuggets of wisdom to fuel your passion and drive your success.
Explore the quotes below and discover the timeless wisdom they hold. Whether you choose to use them as inspiration for your next pitch, adorn them on images for social media, or simply reflect on their significance, may they serve as catalysts for your growth and empowerment in the world of business and beyond.
There’s more than one way to do things. There’s always different points of views and styles of pitching. Tim Hudson
I think anybody that has caught before understands the grind of catching, not only the physical, the nicks, the wear and tear of squatting for nine innings night in, day out, but just the mental grind of working a pitching staff. It’s demanding. Buster Posey
I have some shorter stories coming out in other books early next year. I might be pitching a re-vamp of Ghost Rider in the spring. We’ll see. Patton Oswalt
Dad was the pitching coach, while Mom was the emotional supporter. Her unconditional love was great, and she wanted what was best for me. Jennie Finch
I knew I would always be an artist, but when you move to Nashville, this is a writer’s town. I moved here to focus on that and started pitching demos and immediately was asked to be an artist. Brett Young
We had almost like our own little sports complex at the house. The driveway was like the pitching mound. We used to play one-on-one street hockey right there. My dad wanted to make sure we were ready to have some fun, so he was always out grabbing sports equipment. Travis Kelce
I think people don’t like when you’re not confident about what you’re pitching, and they don’t want to invest in you or get behind you. Lori Greiner
The first sport I played was baseball. I remember being on the Little League team and someone pitching the ball to me for the first time. I was ready to no longer hit the ball off the tee, and an adult pitched it to me underhand. Ashton Eaton
There’s nothing wrong with pitch counts. But not when it’s spit out by a computer, and the computer does not look at an individual’s mechanics. And you can’t look at his genes. It should come from the individual and the pitching coach and the manager. Tom Seaver
Because of streaming, serialized television has become less of a dirty word when you’re pitching shows. I had to fight for that for so long as someone who’s always gravitated towards ongoing story lines with characters that evolved and changed and storylines that continued over longer arcs. Jason Katims
I played Little League. I was a ‘pitcher.’ But we had a pitching machine, so I was just basically an ‘in-infield’ shortstop because all I got to do was field bloopers six feet from the plate. I couldn’t hit, so that was pretty much my entire job. Freddie Prinze, Jr.
Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. George Herman
It’s pitching, hitting and defense that wins. Any two can win. All three make you unbeatable. Joe Garagiola
I played American Legion ball starting when I was 14. But I didn’t catch until I was 17. I was 75-3 as a high school pitcher, but it was like everybody knew that I was supposed to be a catcher. When the scouts would come around, and I was pitching, they’d make me take infield practice so the scouts could watch me throw. Johnny Bench
When I first started out and would go on pitch meetings, there was always this kind of eye-roll that would come with pitching a horror movie when you were dealing with the studios. Unless it was viewed as a cheap product that could turn a lot of profit, there wasn’t a lot of interest in making it good. Mike Flanagan
I don’t sit there writing songs, thinking, ‘This would be good for Rihanna.’ I don’t want to be pitching out like that. Sam Smith
I got a call from my manager saying, ‘Howie Mandel wants to talk to you.’ And I’m a comic – big fan of all he’s done. He was pitching me ‘Caraoke Showdown’, and I was just excited about it. Craig Robinson
On the days I’m pitching, it’s almost a coin flip as to know if the guys behind me are going to be there to play 100%. Cory Lidle
Pitching… sometimes I did so poorly, it brought me to tears. Dennis Eckersley
I would like to host a show, something like travel or cooking or something like that, something I’m really interested in, and so I’m pitching a couple television shows. Trishelle Cannatella
A major league pitching coach is a really difficult job. It takes a big commitment in terms of time, travel and workload. David Cone
Take a look at all of them: Marichal, Jenkins, Spahn – what do you think made them successful? They conditioned their arms by pitching more, not less, starting from when they signed their first contract. Tom Seaver
I have friends who are science journalists, and I’m seeing stories of theirs or talking with them about ideas that they’re pitching. Certain kinds of science are around me all the time, like climate change and biology. Paolo Bacigalupi
I didn’t want to go on the DL. I want to keep pitching and competing. They decided it’s better for me to take some time off and that’s what we’re going to do. Johan Santana
Dad was the pitching coach, while Mom was the emotional supporter. Her unconditional love was great, and she wanted what was best for me. It was more about what she did than what she said, and she made sure I was the best I could be. Jennie Finch
When I go into a pitch room and I’m pitching something with a writing partner, everybody tends to look at the guy, even if I’m doing a lot of the talking. Brit Marling
When I was 15 years old, I used to actually dream I was pitching in Yankee Stadium. Bill Dickey was my catcher. Tommy Lasorda
Baseball is all about pitching, and we know we have to improve our pitching. Tom Hicks
The art of acting is to pitch good. You do the pitching and hope that the other person catches the ball and does some good pitching back to you. Tyne Daly
I’m excited about being here in an organization that I grew up rooting for… I’m excited about being an Atlanta Brave and pitching in Game 1. Tim Hudson
I’ll win more games playing everyday in the outfield than I will pitching every fourth day. George Herman
My pitching philosophy is simple – keep the ball way from the bat. Satchel Paige
I can’t recall too much about pitching, but I do remember that I was anxious to get it over with. I just wanted to get that first game over with and go from there. Dennis Eckersley
Mental attitude and concentration are the keys to pitching. Ferguson Jenkins
Back in the days of world wars, American companies didn’t think twice about pitching in to help fight the enemy. Car companies helped bolster tanks, food companies created rations – sometimes they had to do it, but no one had to twist their arm. Greg Gutfeld
When the facts are on your side, there is huge power in pitching with questions. Because questions are active rather than passive. They necessitate a response. Daniel H. Pink
I have vertigo. Vertigo makes it feel like the floor is pitching up and down. Things seem to be spinning. It’s like standing on the deck of a ship in really high seas. Laura Hillenbrand
Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa. Casey Stengel
You keep pitching. Most of the pitches run wild. A few are caught. Joseph Barbera
Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing. Warren Spahn
I’ve never had anyone put on a puppet show to convince me of anything. And I’ve done a lot of stuff. I don’t know that I would put the puppets on when I was pitching a show. This was the head of the studio putting a puppet show on. And I’ll tell you, he wasn’t bad. Garry Shandling
I would like to be a great artist. I would quit pitching if I could paint like Monet or Rousseau. But I can’t. What I can do is pitch, and I can do that very well. Tom Seaver
Your body is not made to throw like we throw. That’s why you see softball pitchers pitching two or three games a day. It’s a natural movement in softball. In baseball it’s not a natural movement. Jamie Moyer
I enjoy talking pitching and talking baseball. And I don’t have all the answers. I don’t claim to, but I’m more than happy to share my beliefs. Roy Halladay
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
The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers. Earl Weaver
In 2002 Mom and I got a chance to act together in a play called ‘Pitching to the Star,’ with her brother, Robert Lipton. The three of us on the same stage – that was such a special experience for me. Rashida Jones
Pitching keeps you in the games. Home runs win the game. Earl Weaver
Pitch tip: Speak confidently about your product, but be able to admit when you need more information, and get it to the people you’re pitching quickly after the meeting. Alexis Ohanian
Boys from my generation all love Jim Carrey! But you know, just being in his house with him and pitching jokes that he would act out, literally felt like the dreams that I had, so it was amazing. John Francis Daley
The two biggest things that translate from the pitching mound to hunting and fishing are patience and perseverance. When you’re on the mound, you have to take the game one pitch at a time, regardless of the score, and that approach helps when I’m in the woods or on the water as well. Jon Lester
Knuckleball pitching is a very small fraternity. Tim Wakefield
I keep a lot of my old baseball hats, and if you look in the hats I’ve had since I started pitching, you’ll see ‘Philippians 4:13’ written on the brim. That’s the Scripture that gets me through the day because sometimes you can’t do it all by yourself. You can’t do it on your own, so you lean on Him. Scotty McCreery
I was a really big – I was a big fan of pitching staffs in general growing up, not necessarily teams. So I liked the Braves pitching staff of Maddox, Glavine, and Smoltz, and I liked the A’s pitching staff with Zito, Hudson, and Mulder. Trevor Bauer
We have to have great pitching performances from our guys, and we have to take it from there. Bobby Bonilla
You give us the pitching some of these clubs have and no one could touch us, but God has a way of not arranging that, because it’s not as much fun. Sparky Anderson
What I’m looking for in my interaction is critical thinking on the part of the person pitching to me. Brad Feld
To be a small town kid from Hialeah, Fla., pitching in Miami and representing Team U.S.A., that says it all. It’s a kid’s dream. Don’t pinch me. I don’t want to wake up. Gio Gonzalez
We need three kinds of pitching: left handed, right handed, and relief. Whitey Herzog
It would be a lot different for me because there is a lot of information that you need to know about as a player. How pitchers are pitching you, how defenses are playing, certain situations about certain pitchers. Ernie Banks
I’ve been pitching a show of five female stand-up comedians through the generations, from Phyllis Diller to Amy Schumer, so when I got an e-mail asking me if I would participate in the Women in Comedy Festival, I was thrilled. Wendy Liebman
Our family business was operating batting cages. The pitching machine spit out the balls at lightning speed. Don Drysdale, Sandy Koufax. Whitey Ford. 50 cents for 12 pitches. Of course, my mother ran the place, and I was her slave: selling candy, hosing down the street, and the most dreaded of all jobs, feeding the pitching machine with balls. Taylor Negron
I’ve never had to pitch a movie to a studio. I usually just let people read the script, then I cast it. I always think pitching is for baseball. Harmony Korine
Pitching is the art of instilling fear. Sandy Koufax
For me, the game starts with starting pitching. Ryne Sandberg
Pitching is 80% of the game and the other half is hitting and fielding. Mickey Rivers
Try pitching a story of happiness to your editors, and their toes are going to curl up. Jim Crace
Sometimes you are going to have to games where you are going to have to manufacture runs, stealing. Particularly when you face real good pitching. Jose Reyes
The one we keep pitching and there are no takers is The Fabulous Baker Boys Go To Hawaii. There don’t seem to be any takers on that one! Beau Bridges
I’m constantly pitching one episode where we see life through Castle’s eyes. I think Castle’s just a little off as far as his perception goes. A very, very clever man, but I want to see the world as Castle sees it – kind of a rose-colored glasses, all the women find him irresistible, all the guys find him super cool and do whatever he says. Nathan Fillion
You feel like a stud out there when people swing and miss. As I’ve gotten older, I’ve preached to our young guys that strikeouts are sexy, but outs are outs, man, no matter how you get them. It’s a lot cooler for me pitching in the seventh or eighth inning than it is going 5 1/3. Your manager likes it a lot more, too. Tim Hudson
In acting there’s two different things: You’re either pitching in a scene, or you’re catching. Robin Tunney
Pitching is what you have best on the day you work, and if you can’t get your fastball over the plate, then maybe you can win with your curve. Tom Seaver
Nolan Ryan is pitching much better now that he has his curve ball straightened out. Joe Garagiola
Balls and strikes are the basic tenet to everything in baseball. From the perspective of hitting, pitching, offense and defense, it’s all about the strike zone and how the battle is waged there between the pitcher and hitter. Doug Harvey
I can’t do it every day. They’re not going to give me much to hit right now. They’re pitching me real well. If I get there, fine. Sammy Sosa
The only way you preserve pitching arms is throwing; that makes the arm stronger. Juan Marichal
There were so many things in Baltimore not many people know about. I had struggles with my pitching coach. A lot of guys did. Jake Arrieta
As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher’s mound. It was as if I’d been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy. Babe Ruth
Pitching is always a weird, difficult thing. J. J. Abrams
Pitching is a priority. Tom Hicks
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
My only problem is the fear that opposition bowlers might go for my fingers and that’s why I was scared of the short ball. Now I am struggling with the ball pitching up and swinging away. I just keep nicking that one. Shane Warne
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
At 7-1, your pitching has obviously controlled that other team. At 16-10, I’m not sure when it’s safe. Joe Torre
I figured my wife was about to start law school. If that whole baseball pitching thing didn’t work out, I had something to fall back on. I figure I’d put a ring on her finger. Turns out she was the smart one. Turns out she was the gold digger, not me. Tim Hudson
The family on my mom’s side, their whole business is inventing and pitching stuff. My grandfather is in infomercials. He’s a pitchman, so if you’re ever watching TV late at night, you’ll probably see him pitching knives. My great-grandfather also invented the plastic cheese grater. Ashley Tisdale
I think most Hollywood meetings are silly and I truly despise pitching. It’s insane to expect someone to come in and tell you the story before they’ve written it, and buying an idea from someone who can explain it rather than write it is like choosing a mechanic based on his ability to draw a picture of your car’s problem. Jess Walter
That’s how you win – pitching and defense. Derek Jeter
Oh, I love making independent films, it’s such a special, magical thing because you collaborate with a small group of people and everyone’s pitching in. You’ll see producers setting up the lunch table and the sound guy driving a van. We’re all really there because we want to be. Olivia Thirlby
Pitchers are going to break. You can limit their pitches and limit their innings, and they’re still going to blow out. Pitching is hard on the arm. Bruce Sutter
No, I think the pitching today has more depth. Ernie Banks
The reason I was successful in launching my first book with bloggers is this: I assumed that I should spend as much time on a blogger with a million-person readership as I would pitching an editor of a publication with a million person subscription-base. Tim Ferriss
In the ’90s, you couldn’t say the word ‘nerd’ to someone when pitching a show. They would have considered that too niche and wouldn’t have listened. Chris Hardwick
I’m playing first base and pitching and hitting. I feel like I’m almost better than I’ve ever been. It’s like, ‘You’re going to walk away like this?’ Jennie Finch
Sooner or later the arm goes bad. It has to… Sooner or later you have to start pitching in pain. Whitey Ford
I don’t have a room full of writers pitching ideas. It’s just me out of my head. Louis C. K.
I can’t tell you the number of people who pitched something and have no idea whom they are pitching it to. They don’t know the background of the investor. Brad Feld
Phil Niekro and his brother were pitching against each other in Atlanta. Their parents were sitting right behind home plate. I saw their folks more that day than they did the whole weekend. Bob Uecker
It’s hard to think it’s important to try out as cheerleader when you’re starring on Broadway. But you do kind of miss the things that I now see my children doing. I’m just happy they are not actors. The Valentine’s Day dance is really important. Pitching in Little League is very important. And the medals and the scouts are really important. Bonnie Bedelia