Throwing Skill Quotes

I pride myself on being able to make all the throws.

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

Everybody here has the ability to throw a fastball down and away or throw a breaking ball in the dirt for a swing and a miss. But are we able to stay in that moment and understand what we're trying to accomplish and see it in our mind before we execute and then make the pitch?

When I throw a ground ball, I expect it to be an out, maybe two.

Not only is he ambidextrous, but he can throw with either hand.

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.

Everyone in this league can throw the football and make plays.

When I'm aggressive and things are moving quick and my feet are in place, I'm a better, more accurate thrower.

It's easy, man. I just take the ball and throw. Hard! It's a God-given talent! No one can teach it to you. They either hit it or they don't.

Turner was like a pencil. He bent around that pitch!

I can hit the whiskers on a cat with a football from a distance of forty yards.

As long as you know what you are doing and how to anticipate and throw, I don't think you need all that much physically.

I'm not used to seeing the ball go wherever she wants. As a pitcher, I like to be - I don't want to say perfect, but I want to know what the ball is going to do.

I think in the bullpen you can tell during your warmups, if you have a good feel for it. But anything can happen once you get into a game. Sometimes you just wind up throwing it better than ever before one day without knowing why.

Tebow is the kind of guy who could revolutionize the game. He's the 'wildcat' who can throw. Most of the teams that have the wildcat back there, it's Ronnie Brown, it's Jerious Norwood, it's whoever you want to say it is. This guy here is 250 pounds of concrete cyanide, man. And he can throw. He throws well enough at any level to play quarterback.

You got the ball in your hands and you're in command, and if you get your good pitch where you want it, nobody's gonna hit you.

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

The best compliment I've gotten was being compared to Randy Johnson. We're both hard-throwing.

I trust how much my ball moves. I can throw it at you or this far off the plate and have it end up on the black. That's where I kind of went to the next level. I knew what all my pitches were doing. Even in '14, I didn't have that ability.

We were talking about how old quarterbacks can't throw before 10 am... Practice starts too early for us. Wake me up in the middle of the night and I can throw. I can throw anytime.

William Tell could take an apple off your head, [Phil] Taylor could take out a processed pea.

I know I can throw.

The first time I faced him I watched him take that easy windup and then something went past me that made me flinch. The thing just hissed with danger. We couldn't touch him... Every one of us knew we'd met the most powerful arm ever turned loose in a ball park.

I'm the one with the wicked curve ball.

My job is to evaluate the field, pick the guy that I think is most open and make a good throw.