Quotes About Fastballs

#1. The three most important pitches I threw in my life were all fastballs.

Bruce Sutter

#2. I use fast curves, pitched overhand and sidearm, fastballs, high and inside, and an underhand fade away pitch with the hand almost down to the level of the knees.

Chief Bender

#3. Every hitter likes fastballs, just like everybody likes ice cream. But you don't like it when someone's stuffing it into you by the gallon. That's what it feels like when Nolan Ryan's thrown balls by you.

Reggie Jackson

#4. I have to go with the approach I had in Triple-A. I need to take a lot of those fastballs I am seeing to left field. Also must gear up for the changeup and take them up the middle.

Anthony Rizzo

#5. It's no fun throwing fastballs to guys who can't hit them. The real challenge is getting them out on the stuff they can hit.

Sam McDowell

#6. You've got to be ready for the fastball.

Ted Williams

#7. Take all self-determination from a man's life, and all that is left for him to do is complain.

Robin Hobb

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

Mo'ne Davis

#9. The fastball is the best pitch in baseball. It's like having five pitches, if you move it around.

Luis Tiant

#10. I feel that Dennis Rodman has become a problem. He will be more of a problem than an asset. Of course, he can prove me wrong.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#11. When you leave, I feel like I'm alone with your demons.

Crystal Woods

#12. Take all your dukes and marquesses and earls and viscounts, pack them into one chamber, call it the House of Lords to satisfy their pride and then strip it of all political power. It's a solution so perfectly elegant and preposterous that only the British could have managed it.

Charles Krauthammer

#13. I trust that I can hit a fastball, that I can hit any pitch they throw to me.

Albert Pujols

#14. My daughter, I'm proud to say, is senior vice president of ABC Family network. She could hire and fire me. She has hired me, but she has not fired me.

Jessica Walter

#15. Death ain't nothing but a fastball on the outside corner.

August Wilson

#16. Deep in the chaotic regime, slight changes in structure almost always cause vast changes in behavior. Complex controllable behavior seems precluded.

Stuart Kauffman

#17. Once (Stan) Musial timed your fastball, your infielders were in jeopardy.

Warren Spahn

#18. That'd go over like a fart in a spacesuit.

Cameo Renae

#19. 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

#20. Hollywood is great for entertaining people, it's a wonderful business but it's make-believe, you must remember that. That's one of the most important things to remember and the distinction in your own life, otherwise people get lost in their own fame, and it makes them unhappy.

Dolph Lundgren

#21. the Arthurian legends. He was the son of Uther Pendragon and Igraine or Ygraine of Cornwall.

Stephen Klein

#22. I am a director. I'm the one who can order men around.

Lina Wertmuller

#23. It is not the want, but rather abundance that creates avarice.

Michel De Montaigne

#24. I was still making movies so it wasnt as if I were working in a bar, but they were independent films that couldnt find distributors.

Linda Fiorentino

#25. I will send a fastball into the cyber hole.

Tim Lincecum

#26. When they operated, I told them to put in a Koufax fastball. They did-but it was Mrs. Koufax's.

Tommy John

#27. I got so lucky on my 'Red Widow' cast. It was just the universe looking out for me that I got those actors. It's a big ensemble cast, a very international cast. I don't know how that happened.

Melissa Rosenberg

#28. Everyone goes through all kinds of relationship situations. I'm lucky that I get to be on two comedy shows [during divorce].

Fred Armisen