Kurt Busch Quotes

You're just trying to throw the best pitch you can and make sure you hit your spots. I don't have to force nobody.

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

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

The strike zone should be what the rule book says it is and not a personal idiosyncrasy.

Pitch me outside, I will hit .400. Pitch me inside, and you will not find the ball.

It's not a bad ball if I can hit it.

Even if I was tipping my pitches, I could have thrown pitches good enough to not be hit.

Look, the umpires behind the plate? They're human. They're doing the best they can to try to call balls and strikes. I understand that there's a lot of calls that kinda are 50-50. They can go either way. And as a starting pitcher, you try to manage, 'Alright, if you didn't get that call, maybe you'll get it again here a few innings later.'

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

You continue to try to hammer out fastball command the best you can.

I don’t need to go out there and trick guys, and I don’t need to go out there and be perfect. I've just got to attack the strike zone, let my stuff work and get much better results that way.

I'm not trying to strike them out, but there are certain situations, when it's an 0-2 count or a 1-2 count, when I want to have a pitch where I want to strike you out.

Of course, people will be partial, but I put myself among the best in history.

When you get on the floor, you've got to think you're the best player. Everybody does that.

When you are a player, you don't really understand the criticism when you feel like you played pretty well.

Being confident is a really important part of being a footballer. I know my own ability and what I can achieve.

Some guys, first pitch of the at-bat gets called a strike - maybe it's a ball off or below their knees, and it gets called a strike - and then the next two pitches, they swing at balls in the dirt, and all of a sudden, they're yelling at the umpire about that first pitch. You just swung at two balls in the dirt, buddy.

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

Accomplishments are very subjective.

I know my fastball command will get even better.

You can have opinions, but it doesn't mean they're right.

I think my job is to keep the ball down. I always say I try to go out there and get early contact, and strikeouts just seem to happen.

I just try to make the pitcher work.

The main thing is confidence. I'm gaining more and more confidence to do whatever I want to do on the basketball court, whether it is shooting threes or sprinting to the rim and finishing or ball handling. I'm confident enough because I have worked on it that I am going to do the exact same things in the game.

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