Top 56 Quotes About Fastball
#1. The final release point for the fastball is the tips of your fingers.
Steve Carlton
#2. I trust that I can hit a fastball, that I can hit any pitch they throw to me.
Albert Pujols
#3. Greg Maddux is probably the best pitcher in all of baseball along with Roger Clemens. He's much more intelligent than I am because he doesn't have a 95 or 98 mph fastball. I would tell any pitcher who wants to be successful to watch him, because he's the true definition of a pitcher.
Randy Johnson
#4. Only a psychological freak could approach a 100-mph fastball aimed not all that far from his head with total confidence. "Lenny
Michael Lewis
#5. I studied one term of law and then came to realize I had a little better fastball and curve than I did a vocabulary.
Ted Lyons
#6. Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster.
Joe Adcock
#7. At 19, I was still figuring out how to throw a fastball.
Gio Gonzalez
#8. 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
#9. I'm not executing my pitches. I'm not commanding my fastball, and I get behind in the count. When I try to throw strikes, I'm getting hurt. That's not the way I pitch.
Johan Santana
#10. Later, I could take something off my slider and I could make my fastball sink, so I really had four pitches.
Dennis Eckersley
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. The last batter to hit, blast shattered your hip,
Smash any splitter or fastball-that'll be it.
Pharoahe Monch
#14. Most pitchers fear losing their fastball, but since I don't have one, I have nothing to fear but fear itself.
Dan Quisenberry
#15. I was short with my fastball and breaking ball.
Bruce Sutter
#16. When Bryan Price taught me how to throw a changeup, he made me see myself. All my life, I've been the equivalent of a fastball pitcher - trying to use blazing speed and brute force to wow the people around me.
Eric Liu
#17. Bruce Sutter and his new pitch, the split finger fastball, fascinate the manager of the Cuban national teams. 'We must find out about this new weapon,' he said. 'Are the American hitters plotting to murder him?
Thomas Boswell
#18. I looked for the same pitch my whole career, a breaking ball. All of the time. I never worried about the fastball. They couldn't throw it past me, none of them.
Hank Aaron
#19. My changeup looks like a fastball, but one goes straight and the other goes away from the righthanded hitter. Sometimes it cuts by itself, and I don't know where it's going.
Johan Santana
#20. The fastball is the best pitch in baseball. It's like having five pitches, if you move it around.
Luis Tiant
#21. I throw my curveball like Clayton Kershaw and my fastball like Mo'ne Davis.
Mo'ne Davis
#22. Pitching is what you have best on the day you work, and if you can't get your fastball over the plate, then maybe you can win with your curve.
Tom Seaver
#23. The dumber a pitcher is, the better. When he gets smart and begins to experiment with a lot of different pitches, he's in trouble. All I ever had was a fastball, a curve and a changeup and I did pretty good.
Dizzy Dean
#25. 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
#26. You have to hit the fastball to play in the big leagues.
Ted Williams
#27. (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
#28. Trying to sneak a fastball by Ted Williams was like trying to sneak a sunbeam by a rooster in the morning,
Bob Feller
#29. 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
#30. When you lose velocity off of your fastball, one thing that suffers is your off-speed pitches - the action on your off-speed pitches. Once you lose arm speed, it takes away rotation from your off-speed pitches. The rotation is what gives them the sharpness and the nastiness.
Tim Hudson
#31. 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
#32. When they operated, I told them to put in a Koufax fastball. They did-but it was Mrs. Koufax's.
Tommy John
#33. The good rising fastball is the best pitch in baseball.
Tom Seaver
#34. I will send a fastball into the cyber hole.
Tim Lincecum
#35. I'm a fastball hitter. It's no secret I'm looking for a fastball every pitch. I think it's one of the hardest things to do in sports-to hit a moving baseball.
Carlos Delgado
#36. I'm a power guy. Good fastball. A knuckle curve, which I can throw for strikes. A changeup which sinks down and away from lefties and I can also throw for strikes.
Justin Verlander
#37. I may be wearing makeup, but I can throw a fastball by you at the same time.
Jennie Finch
#38. I had to will my way through that game. Sometimes, it takes more than talent or more than a 95-mile-an-hour fastball. You have to will it.
Roger Clemens
#39. I lost the good stuff on my fastball. I had to come up with something to keep me in the league. The knuckler rescued me then.
Ted Lyons
#40. 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
#41. 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
#42. I guess I prefer the laughs. I couldn't do a whole set of just shocks, but I like throwing a fastball inside every now and then to keep people on their toes.
Anthony Jeselnik
#43. Walter Johnson's fastball looked about the size of a watermelon seed and it hissed at you as it passed.
Ty Cobb
#44. Doubleday's First Law, which states that if you throw a fastball with insufficient speed, someone will smack it out of the park with a stick.
Jim Bouton
#46. Once (Stan) Musial timed your fastball, your infielders were in jeopardy.
Warren Spahn
#47. I feel like a pioneer with the split-fingered fastball. I was the first one to really throw it pretty much 100 percent of the time. It was a pitch that I had to have. If I didn't have it, I wouldn't have been in the big leagues.
Bruce Sutter
#48. I'm not like a 90-mph fastball kind of guy, but I can hit 70 on radar gun. I hit 70 one time on a radar guy at one of those pitch-and-throw kind of things. I have a pretty good arm for somebody who's not a baseball player.
Ben Gibbard
#49. 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
#50. But the Twins opened the fifth with their second and third hits, and Beltre helped Hernandez by taking his bullet throw for a force at third on a bunt try. I felt it, ... My only worry was that he didn't throw me a sinker. He threw hard, but a good fastball.
Adrian Beltre
#51. Death ain't nothing but a fastball on the outside corner.
August Wilson
#52. I know who's the best pitcher I ever see and it's old Satchel Paige, that big lanky colored boy. My fastball looks like a change of pace alongside that little pistol bullet ole Satchel (Paige) shoots up to the plate.
Dizzy Dean
#53. No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball.
Casey Stengel
#54. The reason I think I'm a good pitcher is I locate my fastball and I change speeds. Period. That's what you do to pitch. That's what pitchers have to do to win games.
Greg Maddux
#55. The thing about throwing a fastball is, you want it to be easy, you want it to be effortless.
Josh Beckett
#56. I thought I had to show all my stuff and I almost tore the boards of the grandstand with my fastball.
Cy Young
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