Success Quote by Tom Hicks

“Baseball is all about pitching” is less a revelation than a power move: a businessman translating a messy, superstition-laced sport into a single controllable variable. Tom Hicks isn’t trying to sound poetic; he’s trying to sound managerial. The first clause asserts mastery through simplification. Pitching becomes the master key, the lever you pull to make wins fall out. It’s the language of capital and restructuring applied to a game that resists tidy inputs and outputs.

The second clause is where the real work happens: “and we know we have to improve our pitching.” That “we know” is a velvet-gloved mandate. It performs competence and urgency at once, signaling to fans that leadership “gets it,” to the front office that scrutiny is imminent, and to the market that the owner is not asleep at the wheel. It’s also a neat bit of expectation management. If success doesn’t come immediately, the implied diagnosis (“pitching”) offers a ready-made explanation for why the plan isn’t finished yet.

Context matters: owners typically surface in public when there’s pressure - losing seasons, payroll questions, a restless fanbase, or a front office facing make-or-break decisions. By framing improvement as obvious and collective, Hicks positions himself as accountable without getting pinned to specifics like budget, scouting failures, or organizational philosophy. It’s a statement built to travel well in headlines: definitive enough to reassure, vague enough to protect.