Dizzy Dean Quotes

I was short with my fastball and breaking ball.

There's no easier pitch to hit than a splitter that doesn't do anything.

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

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.

All I really try to do is whatever hitter gets in there, I just try to get him out in as few pitches as possible.

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

I'll get in that habit of throwing the ball over the plate too much. You want to keep it going, get those guys back into the dugout. But it's not a good thing when you're over more than a third of the plate.

I'm trying to throw more curves because I'm always throwing fastball, slider, fastball, slider.

If you can constantly just put pressure on all four quadrants, it gives you a little more leverage to be able to fill the zone up with breaking balls and fastball counts - or with breaking balls when guys are maybe sitting on the fastball that you've established.

I'm a power guy. Good fastball. A knuckle curve, which I can throw for strikes. A changeup which sinks down and away from lefties and I can also throw for strikes.

I'm the one with the wicked curve ball.

I use high velocity to keep hitters off balance.

I can see how he (Sandy Koufax) won twenty-five games. What I don't understand is how he lost five.

There's more to pitching than just striking guys out, but also it is a big reason why you can have success.

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

I would not admire hitting against Ryne Duren, because if he ever hit you in the head you might be in the past tense.

One time in spring training, we had the hit-and-run on, and Carl Erskine threw me a curve and I struck out into a double play. I came back to the bench and Casey [Stengel] said, 'next time, tra-la-la.' I didn't know what tra-la-la meant, but next time up, I hit a line drive, right into a double play. When I sat down, Casey came over and said, 'Like I told you, tra-la-la.'

[A knuckleball is] a curve ball that doesn't give a damn.

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

I was a baby when I came into the world--otherwise I might have been smart enough to become a different person.

Marvel's really smart about continuing the storylines of all the different movies from Ultron into this one and blah to blah to blah - it's pretty seamless. So where we left off in Ultron is definitely picked up in Cap 3 here, pretty smoothly I think.

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

I'm sure that like anybody else, I'm probably the sum total of my life experiences. If I'm smart and I've gained any wisdom, I have learned something from each of those experiences including different jobs I've taken throughout my life. The problem is, sometimes you don't realize you've learned something until maybe years later.

No self-respecting pitcher throws the same way to every batter and no self-respecting salesman makes the same pitch to every client.

I think walks are overrated unless you can run... If you get a walk and put the pitcher in a stretch, that helps. But the guy who walks and can't run, most of the time they're clogging up the bases for somebody who can run.