Jon Hamm Quotes

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Baseball player. Yeah, that was my dream before acting, or alongside acting.

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

I never resorted to the spitter until I was obliged to. I nearly ruined my arm throwing curves.

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!

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

Lefty Grove could throw a lamb chop past a wolf.

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

Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move.

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

I love to pitch so much.

A pitcher has to look at the hitter as his mortal enemy.

In baseball I was very singularly focused. If I was pitching it was me versus the hitter.

You have to have a great fielder at shortstop, and you've got to have a guy that has good range and good hands in center field.

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

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

I could throw pretty hard. I might strike out 16 guys, but I might walk 10. I mean, I was wild.