Niekro's Quotes

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

Ralph Kiner

#2. 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

#3. The first step of handling anything is gaining the ability to face it.

L. Ron Hubbard

#4. 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

#5. The great Easter truth is not that we are to live newly after death - that is not the great thing - but that ... we are to, and may, live nobly now because we are to live forever.

Phillips Brooks

#6. You meet saints everywhere. They can be anywhere. They are people behaving decently in an indecent society.

Kurt Vonnegut

#7. The movie says, You can lose your job and your way and still rescue yourself. 'Larry Crowne' creates a self-excavated utopia, and I love that idea, that message.

Julia Roberts

#8. 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

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

Phil Niekro

#10. 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

#11. 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

#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. 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

#14. Mary Joe Fernandez rarely has a bad loss. She never tries for stupid shots.

Tracy Austin