No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball. — Casey Stengel
I may be wearing makeup, but I can throw a fastball by you at the same time. — Jennie Finch
You can't hit what you can't see; I float like a butterfly and sting like a bee! — Walter Johnson
You've got to be ready for the fastball. — Ted Williams
The good rising fastball is the best pitch in baseball. — Tom Seaver
The final release point for the fastball is the tips of your fingers. — Steve Carlton
I trust that I can hit a fastball, that I can hit any pitch they throw to me. — Albert Pujols
I throw my curveball like Clayton Kershaw and my fastball like Mo'ne Davis. — Mo'ne Davis
The last batter to hit, blast shattered your hip,
Smash any splitter or fastball-that'll be it. — Pharoahe Monch
You have to hit the fastball to play in the big leagues. — Ted Williams
Curveball Quotes
I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days. — Kevin Costner
Life throws some curveballs at you and you go where it takes you. — Sophia Bush
I was planning to be a baseball player until I ran into something called a curveball. And that set me back. — Ben Chandler
If I can hit a curveball, why can't I hit a ball that is standing still on a course? — Larry Nelson
I think it's important for people to know that bad things do happen to good people and that life can throw a serious curveball at even the most cautious and "prepared" people out there. — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Back in the day when I played, a pitcher had 3 pitches: a fastball, a curveball, a slider, a changeup and a good sinker pitch. — Mike Shannon
The secret to a happy marriage is a sense of humor, because marriage throws you curveballs. It is not easy. — Ann Romney
Carrots might be good for my eyes, but they won't straighten out the curveball. — Carl Furillo
Everybody wants to know, 'How do you throw a curveball, how do you throw a slider, how do you throw this and that,' when they can't even locate a fastball. Learn how to control your fastball and then once you've got that, move on to other things. — Cliff Lee
Got any pitches? I got five pitches-rise-ball, curveball, screwball, drop-ball and changeup. — Jennie Finch
Walter Johnson's fastball looked about the size of a watermelon seed and it hissed at you as it passed. — Ty Cobb
I know who's the best pitcher I ever see and it's old Satchel Paige, that big lanky colored boy. My fastball looks like a change of pace alongside that little pistol bullet ole Satchel (Paige) shoots up to the plate. — Dizzy Dean
Every hitter likes fastballs, just like everybody likes ice cream. But you don't like it when someone's stuffing it into you by the gallon. That's what it feels like when Nolan Ryan's thrown balls by you. — Reggie Jackson
My major league debut came at old Busch Stadium on Grand Avenue in St. Louis, against the Pittsburgh Pirates. The first pitch I threw was to third baseman Bob Bailey. It was a fastball, low and away. He ripped it for a home run down the left field line. I said, 'Damn, that was a pretty good pitch. — Steve Carlton
The dumber a pitcher is, the better. When he gets smart and begins to experiment with a lot of different pitches, he's in trouble. All I ever had was a fastball, a curve and a changeup and I did pretty good. — Dizzy Dean
I looked for the same pitch my whole career, a breaking ball. All of the time. I never worried about the fastball. They couldn't throw it past me, none of them. — Hank Aaron
I have to go with the approach I had in Triple-A. I need to take a lot of those fastballs I am seeing to left field. Also must gear up for the changeup and take them up the middle. — Anthony Rizzo
I had to will my way through that game. Sometimes, it takes more than talent or more than a 95-mile-an-hour fastball. You have to will it. — Roger Clemens
When Bryan Price taught me how to throw a changeup, he made me see myself. All my life, I've been the equivalent of a fastball pitcher - trying to use blazing speed and brute force to wow the people around me. — Eric Liu
When you lose velocity off of your fastball, one thing that suffers is your off-speed pitches - the action on your off-speed pitches. Once you lose arm speed, it takes away rotation from your off-speed pitches. The rotation is what gives them the sharpness and the nastiness. — Tim Hudson
I'm a fastball hitter. It's no secret I'm looking for a fastball every pitch. I think it's one of the hardest things to do in sports-to hit a moving baseball. — Carlos Delgado
Most pitchers fear losing their fastball and, since I don't have one, the only thing I have to fear is fear itself. — Dan Quisenberry
I threw all my pitches over the top which was important for me because my slider was hard to tell from my fastball at release. — Steve Carlton
(Dwight Gooden) his fastball crackling , his curveball dropping as suddenly as a duck shot in the air, has begun his charge for a third straight award-winning season. — Ira Berkow
Greg Maddux is probably the best pitcher in all of baseball along with Roger Clemens. He's much more intelligent than I am because he doesn't have a 95 or 98 mph fastball. I would tell any pitcher who wants to be successful to watch him, because he's the true definition of a pitcher. — Randy Johnson
The three most important pitches I threw in my life were all fastballs. — Bruce Sutter
I'm not going out and hitting a 95-mph fastball where I can't see the stitches. I'm not on a professional football team looking to tackle a fullback who is built like solid wood. I'm a thinking person, and I've been blessed with the ability to see some things and talk about them in a way that registers in a humorous and funny way. — Bill Cosby
I threw a lot more curveballs in college and the minor leagues. Up here, they're looking for that pitch. A curveball is more recognizable out of the hand than a fastball or changeup. They're taking them or hitting the mistakes I make with them. I don't want it to be so recognizable. I'll have to work with that because that was my pitch. — Tim Lincecum
The last start of spring training, my (cut fastball) was okay. It just wasn't what I wanted it to be. I tried to work on making it cut more and do more. I think that set (the forearm) off ... trying to make it move a lot, cut a lot. I'm just going to back off and trust it a little bit more and not try and push that. — Roy Halladay
It (the slider) just rolls off of your index finger and begins it's spin which will take it down and across the plate (hopefully). Just remember not to twist your elbow or wrist. It should be thrown, with the wrist and grip set, just like your fastball, slightly off center - with the same velocity and intensity. — Steve Carlton
I've got a fastball, change-up, forkball, curve, slider, knuckle-slider, knuckle-curve, I had about seven pitches I could have used at any time. — Chili Davis
I'm not like a 90-mph fastball kind of guy, but I can hit 70 on radar gun. I hit 70 one time on a radar guy at one of those pitch-and-throw kind of things. I have a pretty good arm for somebody who's not a baseball player. — Ben Gibbard
John Wetteland had a very good curveball. He threw it for a strike, too, in any count, any situation. But, he really didn't use it much. He didn't want to throw it. He wanted to throw fastball-slider. — Jorge Posada
Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster. — Joe Adcock
I thought I had to show all my stuff and I almost tore the boards of the grandstand with my fastball. — Cy Young
The reason I think I'm a good pitcher is I locate my fastball and I change speeds. Period. That's what you do to pitch. That's what pitchers have to do to win games. — Greg Maddux
You must not be afraid of small bits of silence. To use it well is the height of confidence and skill for a comedian. It increases the tension in a good way and adds contrast like a curveball complements the fastball of a good pitcher. — Franklyn Ajaye
I'm a power guy. Good fastball. A knuckle curve, which I can throw for strikes. A changeup which sinks down and away from lefties and I can also throw for strikes. — Justin Verlander
The thing about throwing a fastball is, you want it to be easy, you want it to be effortless. — Josh Beckett
I love the slider. I'll throw it anytime. It helps the curve. The last five feet, it dives toward the left-handed hitter's box. It's a pitch that looks like a fastball coming in. It's a pitch I throw when I need a ground ball with a man on base. — Kerry Wood
I guess I prefer the laughs. I couldn't do a whole set of just shocks, but I like throwing a fastball inside every now and then to keep people on their toes. — Anthony Jeselnik
My changeup looks like a fastball, but one goes straight and the other goes away from the righthanded hitter. Sometimes it cuts by itself, and I don't know where it's going. — Johan Santana
My dad played for a coal-mining team in eastern Ohio; he was a very good pitcher. If he hadn't hurt his arm, he probably would have got a shot somewhere. He hurt his arm one spring, didn't warm up good enough, couldn't throw a fastball anymore. Another coal miner taught him how to throw the knuckleball. — Phil Niekro
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