Quotes About Curveball

#1. My curveball is a blessing. My father taught it to me. He felt that it was a pitch he wanted me to learn, right on the side of the house, and it just ended up working. I never asked what the tricks were, or anything like that.

Gio Gonzalez

#2. Hideki Irabu had a very good curveball. Just a straight up and down, swing-and-miss curveball.

Jorge Posada

#3. (Dwight Gooden) his fastball crackling , his curveball dropping as suddenly as a duck shot in the air, has begun his charge for a third straight award-winning season.

Ira Berkow

#4. 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

#5. You never know when life will throw you that curveball, and snap away something dear to you within the blink of an eye.

Jaimie Roberts

#6. The writers are very good about misdirection and changeups, and that's what's great about it. We always think we know what's going to happen and then they throw a curveball that you don't see coming.

Mike Colter

#7. Carrots might be good for my eyes, but they won't straighten out the curveball.

Carl Furillo

#8. I'm always very excited by something that's a curveball or from left field.

Kevin McKidd

#9. Just when you think you know who you are, life has this way of throwing a curveball and landing you back in the town of confusion; population: a vast majority of the human race.

Connor Franta

#10. I throw my curveball like Clayton Kershaw and my fastball like Mo'ne Davis.

Mo'ne Davis

#11. An artistic perspective will jab at you from a different angle; its logic comes like a pitcher with a curveball.

Criss Jami

#12. I think everything comes together. I think it's me being more comfortable with what I am trying to do in terms of how I pitch, in using the curveball and stuff like that. It all brings the package together.

Tom Glavine

#13. Got any pitches? I got five pitches-rise-ball, curveball, screwball, drop-ball and changeup.

Jennie Finch

#14. 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

#15. Just that what happens today or next week or next year isn't necessarily the way things are always going to be. As soon as you settle into a routine, life throws you a curveball. Sometimes you hit it, sometimes you don't.

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

#16. My cutter has been key for me, and my curveball. I've been able to spot them where I want to spot them.

Eli Manning

#17. If life gives you a curveball, then be the catcher and catch it.

Fiona Boyd

#18. You must not be afraid of small bits of silence. To use it well is the height of confidence and skill for a comedian. It increases the tension in a good way and adds contrast like a curveball complements the fastball of a good pitcher.

Franklyn Ajaye

#19. This is a bit of curveball, but people who are really good kissers never have anything given to them.

Kenny Chesney

#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. If I can hit a curveball, why can't I hit a ball that is standing still on a course?

Larry Nelson

#22. I was planning to be a baseball player until I ran into something called a curveball. And that set me back.

Ben Chandler

#23. 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

#24. when life throws you a curveball, you will end up saying, "God, what are You doing to me?" We end up blaming God, as opposed to allowing the goodness of God to navigate us through the situation.

Chris Gore

#25. When the catcher throws down a curveball, I'm like, 'Okay, I can definitely do that.' If I miss with it, I'm still ready to throw it again.

Cole Hamels

#26. It's a very big mental game, all day leading up to warm-ups. You're not sure if your curveball will break, or will you be able to throw it over the plate? It's all negative thoughts going into the game.

Al Leiter

#27. It reminded me that pain was necessary. Pain was life's curveball. Without it, we would never appreciate what it felt like to be loved.

S.L. Jennings

#28. I like songs that have like a little bit of quirkiness to them. What I like to do with songs, is kind of throw a little curveball in the lyrics or in the arrangement, to kind of give it a little twist to it.

John Legend

#29. He who knows not and knows not that he knows not is an incorrigible fool.

Socrates

#30. Even as a tree has a single trunk, but many branches and leaves, there is one religion but any number of faiths.

Mahatma Gandhi

#31. Do you always touch strangers?" I question, trying to ignore the warmth of his hand and the way I have to remember to breathe.
"You've been upgraded to acquaintance," he winks. "This is completely appropriate.

Teresa Michaels

#32. The farmers can be thankful. Didn't the Farm Board decide in Washington last week that they could have cheaper interest? All the farmers have to do now is to find something new to put up as security.

Will Rogers

#33. The person you're most afraid to contradict is yourself.

Nassim Taleb

#34. A good writer is always a people watcher.

Judy Blume

#35. Error is the force that welds men together; truth is communicated to men only by deeds of truth.

Leo Tolstoy

#36. Nature is Satan's church.

Lars Von Trier