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I'm pretty much the one that goes to the mound. -- Bobby Bonilla
For me, it's just going up on the mound and trying to get outs. -- Masahiro Tanaka
The Orioles' Dick Hall comes off the mound like a drunk kangaroo on roller skates. -- Joe Garagiola
He who thinks he is raising a mound may only in reality be digging a pit. -- Ernest Bramah
I don't believe for one second that the eye surgery has helped me on the mound. -- Greg Maddux
Every time I take the mound, I try to win. So that's what I'm trying to do. -- Masahiro Tanaka
Hitters never showed me up, as hard as I threw. And I was pretty mean out on the mound. -- Goose Gossage
I really like Dontrelle Willis' pitch; he's animated on the mound and is fun to watch - he gets into the game emotionally. -- Jennie Finch
My pitch count as a general rule was 135. And I knew how many pitches I had when I went to the mound for the last three innings. -- Tom Seaver
I don't ever remember seeing a base runner who was all the way to third base run back across the mound. It was kind of a respectful thing. -- Goose Gossage
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
To get the feel of how the slider should roll off of your index finger, use this grip and practice at half speed and roughly half the distance to the mound. -- Steve Carlton
I don't know that you're able to measure your aggregate wisdom as you go through life. I can't say that I ever feel that I'm sitting on top of a growing mound of wisdom. -- Dylan Moran
I love being out there on the mound with the ball in my hand. I can control the game. I'm out there. No clock - nothing happens until I throw that thing. Nothing happens. I love that feeling. -- David Cone
When I walked out on the mound, I felt enclosed. You see, I'd been used to playing on pastures, where when somebody hit a ball you had to stop it from rolling. Well, this field had fences around it. -- Ted Lyons
In the White House, you can be on the pitcher's mound or you can be in the catcher's position. Put points on the board. Show people you can govern. Deliver on what you said you were going to deliver on. -- Rahm Emanuel
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
There's very few pitching coaches that I worked with that actually came out on the mound and told me what I was doing wrong with the knuckleball. Because they just didn't know. So I had to figure it out. I was on my own. -- Phil Niekro
I think I rushed and I needed more time with my comeback. I needed more time to get my legs stronger to be able to handle the workload. You can only train for that by pitching innings. You can't simulate pitching off a mound in a game inside a weight room. -- David Cone
People ask me what I do in my spare time, and I look at them blankly, truly believing that I don't even have spare time, and if I did, I'd probably use it for something mundane, like chipping away at the mound of laundry rising to dangerous proportions in the back room. -- Kim Harrison
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
A family is a burial mound of its own doings and sayings ... -- Han Suyin
On the mound is Randy Jones, the left-hander with the Karl Marx hairdo. -- Jerry Coleman
As long as we win games while I'm on the mound, I feel good. -- CC Sabathia
Any time I've taken the mound, it's always been the old Samson-and-Goliath story written about me. -- Randy Johnson
I don't believe for one second that the eye surgery has helped me on the mound -- Greg Maddux
You can't go out to the mound, hobbling and take a pitcher out with a cane. -- Casey Stengel
I wanted to be calm, like a mound with all its cities destroyed, and tranquil, like a full cemetery. -- Yehuda Amichai
When you go out on the mound and you're confident in your body, you feel you can do anything. -- Cole Hamels
Life piles up so fast that I have no time to write out the equally fast rising mound of reflections. -- Virginia Woolf
I have really sinned. I am going to pause now, and sit here on the mound repenting in deepest shame... -- Dodie Smith
When I take the mound in Yankee Stadium I feel like my stuff is going to be better than ever. -- Andy Pettitte
If we lose today, it will be over my dead body. They'll have to leave me face down on the mound. -- Luis Tiant
Every time I go out to the mound, I think about where I come from and what I used to have. -- Francisco Rodriguez
The doctor said I should do a lot of walking, so I walk to the mound nine or ten times a game. -- Cal Ripken, Sr.
Heap not on this mound roses that she loved so well; why bewilder her with roses that she cannot see or smell. -- Edna St. Vincent Millay
Primarily, every rule change over the past ten years has been against the pitchers - lowering the mound and the designated hitter. -- Gaylord Perry
Johnny Sain don't say much, but that don't matter much, because when you're out there on the mound, you got nobody to talk to. -- Casey Stengel
I do my job on the mound and then do what I can at the plate, always working on helping the team anyway I can. -- Jennie Finch
You have to understand where you are on the continuum. I feel I have to be the criminal mastermind on the mound if I want to win. -- C. J. Wilson
And a question stirred within me: What if he, this yellow-eyed creature, in his disorderly, filthy mound of leaves, in his uncomputed life, is happier than we are? -- Yevgeny Zamyatin
You have to be out there and have a mound presence. You have to be real aggressive and be real confident. You have to put the hitters on defense. -- Eric Gagne
You want to be as dominant as possible and you want to put some doubt in the hitters' heads. That's what I'm trying to do every single time I'm on the mound. -- Eric Gagne
One cannot attain divine knowledge till one gets rid of pride. Water does not stay on the top of a mound; but into low land it flows in torrents from all sides. -- Ramakrishna
What example do you have of anything like the Pyramids outside of Africa? You have them in Mexico, but that can be traced to early African migration. So the African created mound culture. -- John Henrik Clarke
Literature, properly so called, draws its sap from the deep soil of human nature's common and everlasting sympathies, the gathered leaf-mound of countless generations, and not from any top dressing capriciously scattered over the surface. -- James Russell Lowell

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