Greg Maddux Quotes

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

If I can execute pitches and keep the ball out of the middle of the plate, I know I can have success.

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

The good rising fastball is the best pitch in baseball.

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

I was short with my fastball and breaking ball.

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

I've always been fastball-curveball and really relied on that pitch, and when it goes away, it just totally changes how you attack hitters.

That's why it's so important to have that gap between your fastball and off-speed pitches: then, when you effectively locate your fastball, it plays at a higher velocity.

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.

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

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

Give me 10 high school pitchers, let me spend a week with them, and I'll show you 10 pitchers who won't balk. It's not that difficult, and they better learn it.

I'm not executing my pitches. I'm not commanding my fastball, and I get behind in the count. When I try to throw strikes, I'm getting hurt. That's not the way I pitch.

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 never knew how to throw a fastball, never learned how to throw a curveball, a slider, split-finger, whatever they're throwing nowadays. I was a one-pitch pitcher.

I use fast curves, pitched overhand and sidearm, fastballs, high and inside, and an underhand fade away pitch with the hand almost down to the level of the knees.

My pitching philosophy is simple - keep the ball way from the bat.

You can be a two-pitch guy and be successful, but your room for error is very small.

When I can buy strikes with that curveball, that just lets everything else play up.

When you're spinning a two-seam, getting on the side of the ball to get more run or sink can be good, but it can really be detrimental to your four-seam.

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.

Because I have so much life on my pitches, I can get away with getting too much of the plate every now and then.