Chess Quote by Al Leiter Download Open image “The pitcher setting up the batter. It's chess, and you play with it.” — Al Leiter ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Chess Pitcher Play Setting
The game of baseball between pitcher and hitter sets up like a game of chess in that you have to anticipate several moves ahead… — Brad Lidge Copy Share Image
Pitches are like pages of a book; they're so important. The chess game; how I set you up early, and how I'll do it… — Al Leiter Copy Share Image
You visualize [pitches]. You see it in your head; you think it...I used to play every pitcher in my mind before I went to… — Hank Aaron Copy Share Image
When you go up there in the batter's box, you're engaged to hit. It's the same thing with baserunning. — Dave Martinez Copy Share Image
It's not really part of the game to say, 'Oh, it's a batter's game; it's a batter's game' - I don't know why it… — AB de Villiers Copy Share Image
When I'm at the plate, I'm not thinking about what I'm trying to do with the bat - I'm thinking about what the pitcher… — Ben Zobrist Copy Share Image
In the split second from the time the ball leaves the pitcher's hand until it reaches the plate you have to think about your… — Duke Snider Copy Share Image
You have to go up there, and it's you vs. the pitcher. No one's there to help you. That's how I go about it. — J. D. Martinez Copy Share Image
When something happens to a pitcher, whether it's mentally or physically, it's a lot more fun to do the things you want to do… — John Smoltz Copy Share Image
You throw batting practice, you warm up pitchers, you sit and cheer. You do whatever you have to do to stay on the team. — Bob Uecker Copy Share Image
You put deadlines on people you really don't want, because that's how you feel about them. — Al Leiter Copy Share Image
But I'm still not 100% convinced that Roger Clemens took steroids. I'm not. — Al Leiter Copy Share Image
I love the game very much, but when you were a certain type of player for a few years, being a front-end starter, that's… — Al Leiter Copy Share Image
I think the World Cup is going to be bigger than what a lot of people are anticipating. At this stage in my career,… — Al Leiter Copy Share Image
Announcers don't do enough of the cat-and-mouse strategy and all the work that goes into it. You watch a broadcast and guys get the… — Al Leiter Copy Share Image
Pitches are like pages of a book; they're so important. The chess game; how I set you up early, and how I'll do it… — Al Leiter Copy Share Image
For seven years, I was in this fishbowl with this intensity, with all the stuff that went on with the Mets. — Al Leiter Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It's a very big mental game, all day leading up to warm-ups. You're not sure if your curveball will break, or will you be… — Al Leiter Copy Share Image
I have known many chess players, but among them there has been only one genius - Capablanca! — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
Real chessplayers think about chess more or less 24 hours a day. It is a passion and a fate that one has to live… — Simen Agdestein Copy Share Image
It's interesting that the greatest minds of computer science, the founding fathers, like Alan Turing and Claude Shannon and Norbert Wiener, they all looked… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
“Relationships are chess for women," he said. "They can see the whole board, plan way ahead. They're the queens, after all. We're the kings,… — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
The election of Trump threw the chess board up. The pieces are all over the place. That's upsetting to a lot of people, but… — Dave Rubin Copy Share Image
Playing for complications is an extreme measure that a player should adopt only when he cannot find a clear and logical plan. — Alexander Alekhine Copy Share Image
“the shadows. “Why do you think they invented chess?” “He’s got you there,” said the captain, following Fletcher. Jake jogged slightly to catch up… — Russell Blake Copy Share Image
[Photographer Julian Wasser] had this great idea that I should play chess naked with Marcel Duchamp and it seem to be such a great… — Eve Babitz Copy Share Image
I am not some sort of freak. I might be very good at chess but I'm just a normal person. — Magnus Carlsen Copy Share Image
My parents were very supportive of my chess. When I got home after a game of chess, having missed school or something, they always… — Viswanathan Anand Copy Share Image
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