K.k. Slider Quotes

#1. It's not how much we love things but how they change us.

Camila Cher Harmath

#2. Everybody wants to know, 'How do you throw a curveball, how do you throw a slider, how do you throw this and that,' when they can't even locate a fastball. Learn how to control your fastball and then once you've got that, move on to other things.

Cliff Lee

#3. Nobody taught me my slider. I mean, if you look at my grip, I don't think anyone has the same grip as I do. It's a separate grip. I hold it kind of weird and everything. When I started throwing it, I just wanted to start throwing something different and came up with that. I turned it a little bit.

Scott Kazmir

#4. Showing up for another says, "I see you. Your pain is known, and though I cannot make it better, I'm here and that's what matters.

Kara Tippetts

#5. No matter the technological sophistication of ultramodern molecular research, and no matter the increasingly abstruse terminology of its current literature, the circle of knowledge always returns to its starting point: In order to live, man must have air.

Sherwin B. Nuland

#6. I paint ideas, not things. My intention is less to paint works that are pleasing to the eye than to suggest great thoughts which will speak to the imagination and the heart and will arouse all that is noblest and best in man.

George Frederic Watts

#7. Wherever you're coaching or playing right now is the Big Time

Chip Kelly

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

Jerry Coleman

#9. I love the slider. I'll throw it anytime. It helps the curve. The last five feet, it dives toward the left-handed hitter's box. It's a pitch that looks like a fastball coming in. It's a pitch I throw when I need a ground ball with a man on base.

Kerry Wood

#10. I consciously memorized the speed at which every pitcher in the league threw his fastball, curve, and slider. Then, I'd pick up the speed of the ball in the first 30 feet of its flight and knew how it would move once it has crossed the plate.

Stan Musial

#11. Later, I could take something off my slider and I could make my fastball sink, so I really had four pitches.

Dennis Eckersley

#12. 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.

Phil Niekro

#13. How soon do you think it is? Time will tell me. When it's autumn, the leaves fall. When the time comes, I'll know it.
[Responding to a question about when he will start throwing his slider in his attempt to comeback from a career-ending stroke.]

J.R. Richard

#14. I feel good with my slider a lot. When I'm far behind the count I use it ... so I feel confident with that.

Ubaldo Jimenez

#15. Vehicular Darwinism based on survival of the quickest.

Raymond L. Atkins

#16. To despise flowers is to offend God.

Alexandre Dumas

#17. 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.

Jorge Posada

#18. 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.

Steve Carlton

#19. I have five pitches. Fast ball, change, curve, slider, screwball. I don't know any hitters. Catcher, he tells me what to do. I can get any pitch I want over the plate.

Juan Marichal

#20. Back in the day when I played, a pitcher had 3 pitches: a fastball, a curveball, a slider, a changeup and a good sinker pitch.

Mike Shannon

#21. To get the feel of how the slider should roll off of your index finger, use this grip and practice at half speed and roughly half the distance to the mound.

Steve Carlton

#22. If I ever find a pitcher who has heat, a good curve, and a slider, I might seriously consider marrying him, or at least proposing.

Sparky Anderson

#23. Sparky Lyle threw me a slider, and it wound up in the seats. We won, and it was a memorable moment.

Richie Allen

#24. It is true what Rimbaud said; If you think a book is strong enough, try it at the ocean, in the wind, at the waves. If the book can resist the ocean, then it exists. Otherwise, throw it away.

Klaus Kinski

#25. I've got a fastball, change-up, forkball, curve, slider, knuckle-slider, knuckle-curve, I had about seven pitches I could have used at any time.

Chili Davis

#26. ...he was a sensitive person underneath it all. Yes he could believe that, SLider thought. Only a man obsessed with hie own emotions could spread so much devastation around him.

Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

#27. I was always a self-proclaimed poor slider.

Willie Stargell