Slider Quotes

#1. ...he was a sensitive person underneath it all. Yes he could believe that, SLider thought. Only a man obsessed with hie own emotions could spread so much devastation around him.

Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

#2. 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

#3. Nobody taught me my slider. I mean, if you look at my grip, I don't think anyone has the same grip as I do. It's a separate grip. I hold it kind of weird and everything. When I started throwing it, I just wanted to start throwing something different and came up with that. I turned it a little bit.

Scott Kazmir

#4. I challenge anyone, even with a radar machine, to hit that slider.

Jerry Coleman

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. Later, I could take something off my slider and I could make my fastball sink, so I really had four pitches.

Dennis Eckersley

#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. How soon do you think it is? Time will tell me. When it's autumn, the leaves fall. When the time comes, I'll know it.
[Responding to a question about when he will start throwing his slider in his attempt to comeback from a career-ending stroke.]

J.R. Richard

#10. I feel good with my slider a lot. When I'm far behind the count I use it ... so I feel confident with that.

Ubaldo Jimenez

#11. 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

#12. I have five pitches. Fast ball, change, curve, slider, screwball. I don't know any hitters. Catcher, he tells me what to do. I can get any pitch I want over the plate.

Juan Marichal

#13. 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

#14. To get the feel of how the slider should roll off of your index finger, use this grip and practice at half speed and roughly half the distance to the mound.

Steve Carlton

#15. If I ever find a pitcher who has heat, a good curve, and a slider, I might seriously consider marrying him, or at least proposing.

Sparky Anderson

#16. Sparky Lyle threw me a slider, and it wound up in the seats. We won, and it was a memorable moment.

Richie Allen

#17. 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

#18. I was always a self-proclaimed poor slider.

Willie Stargell

#19. 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

#20. Never trust an experimental result until it has been confirmed by theory

Arthur Stanley Eddington

#21. And if that meant she wasn't entirely mine, what of it? I would be the one she could always return to without fear of recrimination or question. So I did not try to win her and contented myself with playing a beautiful game.

Patrick Rothfuss

#22. Nothing is so oppressive as a secret: women find it difficult to keep one long; and I know a goodly number of men who are women in this regard.

Jean De La Fontaine

#23. I'm an old trial lawyer.

Patrick Leahy

#24. The one thing fiction and non-fiction writing have in common for me is that sense of trying to get the sentences to be minimal but at the same time be a little overfull - to encourage them to do a kind of poetic work.

George Saunders

#25. But our gusty emotions say to me that we have / Tasted heaven many times: these delicacies / Are left over from some larger party.

Robert Bly

#26. If you have yet to be called an incorrigable, defiant woman,
don't worry, there is still time

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

#27. One conversation! One simple, honest, true conversation, and all your questions would be answered, all your problems solved! Really, man, is it that difficult? Then you'd be free to fall into each other's arms and live your Happily Ever After. Why make it so complicated?
Eanrin

Anne Elisabeth Stengl

#28. I am yours, for time and eternity
time and eternity.

William Dean Howells

#29. We must walk the path of sadness in order to appreciate truly the path of happiness.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#30. Truth destroys the worst in man; pleasure destroys the best. If you love truth more than happiness, then open; otherwise, let rest." His

John C. Wright

#31. [The media can be] the greatest force for peace on the earth [for] it is how we come to understand each other.

Amy Goodman

#32. It is important to be nice. But sometimes niceness can be misconstrued as weak. Should we be nice to everybody? Should we be nice only when others are nice to us? Here are some interesting views about being nice. Read these nice quotes and turn on your niceness.

Dave Barry