Felix Hernandez Quotes

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.

I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it.

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.

I was short with my fastball and breaking ball.

I think the changeup has become more popular recently by pitchers like Pedro Martinez and the success he had with it.

Getting my curveball back and finding another pitch just helped me figure out how to pitch.

The big thing will be having two pitches you can throw for strikes and developing a change-up, too.

I threw a good fastball and changeup, but a below-average curveball.

I'm a breaking-ball pitcher.

In my bullpen sessions, I'm just trying to feel comfortable, throw strikes, and not get too complicated.

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

The good rising fastball is the best pitch in baseball.

I only know one way to pitch. I really do.

You aren't going to stick around long with just two pitches.

Ken Holtzman could pitch a game in ninety minutes. Wouldn't throw a breaking ball. And he had a great breaking ball.

Cleaning up that lack of the definition between the two, and then leaning on the four-seam, having it become my primary fastball over my two-seam, it's just benefited me as a whole.

My changeup needs to be better. Until I feel comfortable throwing that pitch - or any pitch - in any count, I've got stuff to work on.

Half the time, I have trouble following our own pitcher's sequence.

Maybe I'm biased because I'm a pitcher, but I think that's pretty cool that a guy can throw a ball 100 miles an hour.

The thing that kept me from going to the next level was, I really didn't have an out-pitch. My story in baseball could have been a lot different if that's all I focused on.

When you don't have one that you throw for strikes - they are good hitters - they can cancel out one pitch and go to another. Now I have four pitches. If one's not working, I've got three others. It makes the game totally different.

I want to throw a faster fastball. I want a sharper curve. I want to improve all my pitches.

I've been fortunate with the changeup. I've been able to throw it for strikes.

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.

If I get two strikes, I'll go to a pitch maybe that will help induce that a little bit.