Red Faber Quotes

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

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

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

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

Pitching is what you have best on the day you work, and if you can't get your fastball over the plate, then maybe you can win with your curve.

Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.

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

At 19, I was still figuring out how to throw a fastball.

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 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.

Nolan Ryan is pitching much better now that he has his curve ball straightened out.

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

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

Striking out batters was easy.

I am a baseball player and I enjoy getting batters out and that is what I want to continue doing.

I've got some good movement on my sinking fastball, and I rely on that.

I'm pretty proud of my fastball. I can throw a screwball. It's not as accurate, and I don't have the velocity like I do with my fastball, but I think my fastball is not too shabby.

Got any pitches? I got five pitches-rise-ball, curveball, screwball, drop-ball and changeup.

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.

For me, it's just going up on the mound and trying to get outs.

Baseball is all about pitching, and we know we have to improve our pitching.

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.

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

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

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