Bob Uecker Quotes

I couldn't throw a knuckleball if my life depended on it.

Never reach for the knuckleball; I just let it come to me.

Pitching is a priority.

Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.

No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball.

You fool around with different pitches playing catch, but it's not the same when you've got to face some guy with a bat in his hand.

The pitcher setting up the batter. It's chess, and you play with it.

I love to pitch so much.

Strikeouts are part of my game.

You can't find a bad count to throw a curveball.

My fingers are too short to enable me to get grip enough on the ball to pitch a deep curve, so that I have been compelled to depend more on drops, straight balls and the different artifices known to pitchers to deceive the batter.

You could ask any position player and they'll tell you: pitchers aren't athletes.

Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball.

I don't recall your name but you sure were a sucker for a high inside curve.

A pitcher needs two pitches, one they're looking for and one to cross them up.

Show me a guy who can't pitch inside and I'll show you a loser.

Any pitcher who might throw at me should know I'm not giving up my day job or trying to get anyone else's job. I just can't think of anything cooler than being one of the boys of summer!

You've got a little round ball and a little round bat and anything can happen.

I never threw the spitter, well maybe once or twice when I really needed to get a guy out real bad.

I had some great pitchers while in St. Louis. At first, they only 'pitched' the ball fifty feet. They had an allowance of six bases on balls, which was neutralized to some extent by four strikes. Later on, the 'throw' became a free-for-all, overhand, or any style the pitcher chose.

Lefty Grove could throw a lamb chop past a wolf.

The three most important pitches I threw in my life were all fastballs.

Son, what kind of pitch would you like to miss.

Pitching is always a weird, difficult thing.

They give you a round bat and they throw you a round ball and they tell you to hit it square.