Joe Garagiola Quotes

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

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

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

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

Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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!

But because I could throw so hard when I got to college they made me a pitcher.

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

Strikeouts are part of my game.

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

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

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

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