Be aggressive... That's the type of pitcher I am. I go as hard as I can for as long as I can and see where the cards fall.
I only know one way to pitch. I really do.
I think the changeup has become more popular recently by pitchers like Pedro Martinez and the success he had with it.
I was never a strikeout pitcher. Why should I throw eight or nine balls to get a man out when I got away with three or four?
I really like Dontrelle Willis' pitch; he's animated on the mound and is fun to watch - he gets into the game emotionally.
Your body is not made to throw like we throw. That's why you see softball pitchers pitching two or three games a day. It's a natural movement in softball. In baseball it's not a natural movement.
Once a year, I take my whole wine team down to see the Giants, and we meet the players. I've never seen anyone pitch like Lincecum that can throw the ball and get through the front leg. He has that stiff front leg.
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 looked for the same pitch my whole career, a breaking ball. All of the time. I never worried about the fastball. They couldn't throw it past me, none of them.
Like I'm seeing Chris Sale; he's got a similar pitching style and strikes guys out a lot. Why are people only talking about my strikeouts and all that stuff?... Why not the other guys, who have similar numbers and pitch counts?
To be able to play as slow as Al Jackson is almost impossible.
When I was younger and inexperienced, I was a very animated pitcher. I pitched with a lot of adrenaline. I was my own worst enemy when things weren't gong well.
I'm a fly-ball pitcher, guys.
I threw all my pitches over the top which was important for me because my slider was hard to tell from my fastball at release.
DeShaies is like a clock out there. Every other pitch goes one way or the other.
The screwball's an unnatural pitch. Nature never intended a man to turn his hand like that throwing rocks at a bear.
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.
You had to pitch in and out. The zone didn't belong to the hitters; it belonged to the pitchers. Today, if you pitch too far inside, the umpire would stop you right there. I don't think it's fair.
I'm a finesse pitcher without the finesse.
I'm trying to throw more curves because I'm always throwing fastball, slider, fastball, slider.
My fingers are too short to enable me to get grip enough on the ball to pitch a deep curve, so that I have been compelled to depend more on drops, straight balls and the different artifices known to pitchers to deceive the batter.
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.
Because I have so much life on my pitches, I can get away with getting too much of the plate every now and then.
He (Sandy Koufax) throws a 'radio ball,' a pitch you hear, but you don't see.
I had set the standard for my style of relief pitching so high that when I came back to the rest of the pack, everybody said I was done.
