pitching speed Quotes

(Bob) Feller isn't quite as fast as I was.

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

Can I throw harder than Joe Wood? Listen mister, no man alive can throw any harder than Smokey Joe Wood.

Once (Stan) Musial timed your fastball, your infielders were in jeopardy.

Sometimes I rush my swing because I am so anxious to play well. In Cuba, the quality of the pitching is not the same as it is here. There you might find one or two pitchers at 94 or 95 mph. Here, every day I find several, and each pitcher who comes along throws his hardest stuff.

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

Lefty Grove could throw a lamb chop past a wolf.

He (Sandy Koufax) throws a 'radio ball,' a pitch you hear, but you don't see.

I'm not like a 90-mph fastball kind of guy, but I can hit 70 on radar gun.

Every hitter likes fastballs, just like everybody likes ice cream. But you don't like it when someone's stuffing it into you by the gallon. That's what it feels like when Nolan Ryan's thrown balls by you.

Smokey Joe (Williams) could throw harder than anyone.