Gio Gonzalez Quotes

How do you catch a knuckleball? You wait until it stops rolling, then go pick it up.

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

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.

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

Strikeouts are part of my game.

Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.

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

When you can throw 97 miles an hour and put the ball over the plate anytime you want, it's fun.

Hideki Irabu had a very good curveball. Just a straight up and down, swing-and-miss curveball.

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.

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.

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

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

Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world.

Striking out batters was easy.

There are some great pitchers in this league. You're going to get fooled sometimes. They're going to get you.

I'm a breaking-ball pitcher.

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

As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher's mound. It was as if I'd been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy.

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.

We need three kinds of pitching: left handed, right handed, and relief.

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

Can I throw harder than Joe Wood? Listen mister, no man alive can throw any harder than Smokey Joe Wood.

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!

Once a year, I take my whole wine team down to see the Giants, and we meet the players. I've never seen anyone pitch like Lincecum that can throw the ball and get through the front leg. He has that stiff front leg.