Nate Silver Quotes

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.

I think I'm constantly trying to grow as a pitcher. You start going out there, you're learning stuff, you're finding different ways to try to get guys out. Trying to be creative.

I know my fastball command will get even better.

I just try to make the pitcher work.

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

Any time first time out, you just want to make sure you can get hitters out again.

If you talk to any pitcher, consistency is the most important thing.

The good rising fastball is the best pitch in baseball.

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.

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.

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.

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

A pitcher's got to be good and he's got to be lucky to get a no hit game.

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.

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.

Nolan Ryan is pitching much better now that he has his curve ball straightened out.

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

For me, the game starts with starting pitching.

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

Within the changing room, everyone has always known I'm best when I pitch the ball up and get a little bit of movement.

Sandy Koufax is a great teacher. He just talks about competitiveness and being aggressive - about stride length, power, how to spin the breaking ball. The way he explains pitching is simple, which is something you don't see a lot.