Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889) English poet
Comments on the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius Loyola
" No Worst, There Is None http://www.bartleby.com/122/41.html", lines 1-2 <br class="br">Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889) English poet
Comments on the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius Loyola
Roberto Clemente (1934–1972) Puerto Rican baseball player
As quoted in "SPORTS BEAT: Bucco Ship Needs Clemente's Big Bat" by Wendell Smith in The New Pittsburgh Courier (April 10, 1965), p. 15
Baseball-related, <big><big>1960s</big></big>, <big>1965</big>
“They that touch pitch will be defiled.”
Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister
Actually spoken by Dogberry in William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing (III.3). The KJV Bible (Ecclesiasticus 13:1) has "He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith".
Misattributed
“Pitching is the art of instilling fear.”
Sandy Koufax (1935) American baseball player
As quoted in Involvements : One Journalist's Place in the World (1984) by Colman McCarthy, p. 243
Cheryl Strayed book Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Source: Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Robert Stawell Ball (1840–1913) Irish astronomer
A Treatise on the Theory of Screws https://books.google.com/books?id=ECZ-MkhTdvkC 1900 p. 173
George Perle (1915–2009) American composer
Page 67
See: Allen Forte
The Listening Composer
Arnold Hano (1922) American writer
And that was Ruth. <br class="br">As quoted in "Bronx Banter Interview: Arnold Hano, Part I" http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2009/09/25/bronx-banter-interview-arnold-hano/ <br class="br">Sports-related
“Pitching always beats batting — and vice-versa.”
Yogi Berra (1925–2015) American baseball player, manager, coach
“Above the pitch, out of tune, and off the hinges.”
Francois Rabelais book Gargantua and Pantagruel
Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Fourth Book (1548, 1552), Chapter 19.