Niekro Quotes

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

Ralph Kiner

#2. Trying to hit Phil Niekro is like trying to eat jello with chopsticks. Sometimes you get a piece but most of the time you get hungry.

Bobby Murcer

#3. Phil Niekro and his brother were pitching against each other in Atlanta. Their parents were sitting right behind home plate. I saw their folks more that day than they did the whole weekend.

Bob Uecker

#4. They're such hierarchical things, film sets, they're sort of mini societies. Often they're incredibly political places.

Eddie Redmayne

#5. human beings, each one of whom is a priceless, unique experiment of nature, are being shot to death in carloads.1 If

Hermann Hesse

#6. The idea behind stamped money is sound.

John Maynard Keynes

#7. 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

#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. Sometimes, the shortest path between two points is serpentine,

Christopher Benfey

#11. Great change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over & release control over what you don't.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#12. I don't want anybody to panic. I'm not pitching. I'm just throwing out the first ball.

Phil Niekro

#13. This shift from the Judeo-Christian basis for law and the shift away from the restraints of the Constitution automatically militates against religious liberty.

Francis Schaeffer

#14. The danger with mentioning names is that you hurt the feelings of people that you leave out.

Rush Limbaugh

#15. 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

#16. There have been a lot of stories written about me, some of them fantastically distorted.

Judy Garland

#17. I would think every organization has pitchers who have good talent but just don't have what it takes to make it with what they've got.

Phil Niekro