Quotes About Phil Niekro

#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. My favorite sci-fi always uses its hook to amplify some bigger theme or idea - some emotional thrust.

Rian Johnson

#5. You have lost your mind,"Jamie said coldly, the shock receding slightly. "Or I should think you had, if ye had one to lose.

Diana Gabaldon

#6. Gandalf thought of most things; and though he could not do everything, he could do a great deal for friends in a tight corner.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#7. Be not lost So poorly in your thoughts.

William Shakespeare

#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 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

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

Phil Niekro

#12. Two things amazes me the most, the beauty of nature and the power of my thoughts.

Debasish Mridha

#13. All of us live with our own demons, do penance in our private ways. We need our friends for support and advice, but we draw our strength from within.

Paul Levine

#14. Thick lashes lifted, a moment of pure clarity in the dark gray as Noah wrapped his arm around her waist. "Meant to ask you to marry me, put the ring in the plant soil, but gardener made me drunk. He's so small. What happened?"

Nalini Singh

#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. Any judge who allows an adulterer with a live-in girlfriend to terminate the life of his wife should be impeached.

Phyllis Schlafly

#17. Everyone in the valleys knew me and because of that, so many people used my name in the valleys that there must have been at least a hundred times a night that the name 'Malcolm Price' was used.

Stephen Richards

#18. 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