baseball pitch Quotes

The good rising fastball is the best pitch in baseball.

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

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.

Fastball middle-middle. You can't miss that pitch.

The first pitch to Tucker Ashford is grounded into left field. No, wait a minute. It's ball one. Low and outside.

I challenge anyone, even with a radar machine, to hit that slider.

Gentlemen, for the first 60 feet that was a hell of a pitch.

I have no idea what I did. I heard people talk about dead leg, shake, change of pace and all that, but I did things without thinking about them.

If you can't see the rotation and tell if it's a sink - a fastball, then you have to be able to tell whether that fastball is a two-seamer or a four-seamer. You have to be able to recognize if it's a slider or a curveball. You have to be able to recognize if it's a changeup or a split-finger.

My curveball is a blessing. My father taught it to me. He felt that it was a pitch he wanted me to learn, right on the side of the house, and it just ended up working. I never asked what the tricks were, or anything like that.

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

I never threw an illegal pitch. The trouble is, once in a while I toss one that ain't never been seen by this generation.

I've seen that picture before. It was a two-seamer that didn't sink until it hit the upper deck somewhere.

The screwball's an unnatural pitch. Nature never intended a man to turn his hand like that throwing rocks at a bear.

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

It (the slider) just rolls off of your index finger and begins it's spin which will take it down and across the plate (hopefully). Just remember not to twist your elbow or wrist. It should be thrown, with the wrist and grip set, just like your fastball, slightly off center - with the same velocity and intensity.

It's (Phil Niekro's knuckleball) like watching Mario Andretti park a car.

I think everything comes together. I think it's me being more comfortable with what I am trying to do in terms of how I pitch, in using the curveball and stuff like that. It all brings the package together.

I try to throw a pretty catchable ball. I like to think I do.

The beanball is one of the meanest things on Earth and no decent fellow would use it. The beanball is a potential murderer. If I were a batter and thought the pitcher really tried to bean me, I'd be inclined to wait for him outside the park with a baseball bat.

I never threw the spitter, well maybe once or twice when I really needed to get a guy out real bad.

I never resorted to the spitter until I was obliged to. I nearly ruined my arm throwing curves.