Knuckleball Quotes

#1. Knuckleball pitching is a very small fraternity.

Tim Wakefield

#2. The # knuckleball can be a metaphor of what it's like to let go.

R.A. Dickey

#3. How do you catch a knuckleball? You wait until it stops rolling, then go pick it up.

Bob Uecker

#4. Ball parks are smaller and baseballs are livelier. They've practically got pitchers wearing straitjackets. Bah! They still allow the knuckleball, and that is three times as hard to control.

Ed Walsh

#5. It's a pitch you can extend your career with because it's less taxing on your body. It's like dog years, but in reverse. I feel like I'm 27 or 26 in knuckleball years!

R.A. Dickey

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

Gio Gonzalez

#7. Look for the seams (on a knuckleball) and then hit in-between them.

Harmon Killebrew

#8. I remember going to see my dad pitch against other coal-mining teams, and he was successful with the knuckleball. I saw how bad guys would look like swinging, and how guys talked about how he could throw every day and didn't hurt his arm. That's how I grew up learning.

Phil Niekro

#9. There's very few pitching coaches that I worked with that actually came out on the mound and told me what I was doing wrong with the knuckleball. Because they just didn't know. So I had to figure it out. I was on my own.

Phil Niekro

#10. [A knuckleball is] a curve ball that doesn't give a damn.

Jimmy Cannon

#11. The way to catch a knuckleball is to wait until it stops rolling and then pick it up.

Bob Uecker

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

Rick Ferrell

#13. It's (Phil Niekro's knuckleball) like watching Mario Andretti park a car.

Ralph Kiner

#14. He (Hoyt Wilhelm) had the best knuckleball you'd ever want to see. He knew where it was going when he threw it, but when he got two strikes on you, he'd break out one that even he didn't know where it was going.

Brooks Robinson

#15. You know, catching the knuckleball, it's like trying to catch a fly with a chopstick.

Jason Varitek

#16. You don't catch the knuckleball, you defend against it.

Joe Torre

#17. I don't really feel much more confident than I did the last couple years. I've always felt like I have a pretty good knuckleball. I worked hard to do that.?

R.A. Dickey

#18. There aren't many hitters who like facing knuckleball pitchers. They may not be intimidated by them, but they sure are thinking about them before they go into the box.

Phil Niekro

#19. Throwing a knuckleball for a strike is like throwing a butterfly with hiccups across the street into your neighbor's mailbox.

Willie Stargell

#20. There are two theories on hitting the knuckleball. Unfortunately, neither of them works.

Charley Lau

#21. When I was in fourth grade, a novelist came to talk to my English class. She told us that being an author meant sitting at the kitchen table in pajamas, drinking tea with the dogs at your feet.

J. Courtney Sullivan

#22. If little faults, proceeding on distemper, Shall not be wink'd at, how shall we stretch our eye When capital crimes, chew'd, swallow'd and digested, Appear before

William Shakespeare

#23. Inside, the festivities would continue, probably well into the night, with flirtation and merriment and gratuitous use of mistletoe. It was an inexpressibly wearying thought.

Lauren Willig

#24. South Africans will kick down a statue of a dead white man but won't even attempt to slap a live one. Yet they can stone to death a black man simply because he's a foreigner

Robert Mugabe

#25. No book ever takes the place of the Bible. It is its own best commentary.

Billy Graham

#26. My mother always seemed to me like a fairy princess: a radiant being possessed of limitless riches and power. She shone for me like the evening star. I loved her dearly.

Winston Churchill