Release Point Quotes

You don't want to be a streaky shooter.

There's got to be a fine line where I can find I'm still throwing the ball how I usually throw it, but it's able to dive down after a certain height and get to the guy.

I couldn't throw a knuckleball if my life depended on it.

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

I've taken countless shots in my life, so you know the ones when you're in rhythm, with a perfect release, and it's on track, that it's going in.

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.

You know, it's a different deal - throwing a football as opposed to throwing a baseball.

Once you pull the trigger, you've got to throw balls aggressively and with conviction.

The key to my accuracy is making sure my feet are set right and trying to have a more polished throwing motion, a more polished stroke, you can say. When my feet are right, my hips are allowed to open a little better, which is kind of where your accuracy comes from.

My curveball is a C-.

I'm a breaking-ball pitcher.

When I shoot, I'm square with the rim.

Honestly now, I'm so much more comfortable at the line and I've gotten so many reps up. Now I feel like when I shoot it, I go up so much more confident thinking, 'OK I'm going to make this one.'

I always tried to watch the pitcher and his complete windup from the moment he had the ball in his glove all the way through his motion, and tried to follow it all the way out of his hand, all the way to home plate.

I won the glare with the bowler every time, because I knew that at some time he was going to have to turn around and go back to his mark.

Never reach for the knuckleball; I just let it come to me.

I never actually thought about my delivery. I was always just throwing the ball.

I'm the kind of person that if I try to throw it hard, it doesn't come out as good. So my whole thought process is to stay smooth, stay on top of the ball, and just get my hand out in front.

I'm making throws where I don't have to second guess, putting the ball where it needs to be, and when I'm making each throw, there's no grabbing or pulling in there, and it feels comfortable and fluid.

We've been trying to get my body and head moving toward the target on the downswing. I have a tendency to hang back and not release the club.

My changeup looks like a fastball, but one goes straight and the other goes away from the righthanded hitter. Sometimes it cuts by itself, and I don't know where it's going.

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.

I can make any throw.

The final release point for the fastball is the tips of your fingers.

I got into a bad habit of dropping my elbow and pushing the ball to the plate instead of getting on top of it and using some leverage to get it down in the strike zone or get some depth with the ball.