Fastballs Quotes

• 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

  Moving, Want, Curveballs

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• 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

  Baseball, Ice Cream, Mlb

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You've got to be ready for the fastball.

  Ted Williams

  Sports, Ready

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• My major league debut came at old Busch Stadium on Grand Avenue in St. Louis, against the Pittsburgh Pirates. The first pitch I threw was to third baseman Bob Bailey. It was a fastball, low and away. He ripped it for a home run down the left field line. I said, 'Damn, that was a pretty good pitch.

  Steve Carlton

  Running, Home, League

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• The good rising fastball is the best pitch in baseball.

  Tom Seaver

  Baseball, Rising

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• A baseball swing is a very finely tuned instrument. It is repetition, and more repetition, then a little more after that.

  Reggie Jackson

  Baseball, Swings, Littles

  Reggie Jackson, Mike Lupica (1985). “Reggie”, Ballantine Books

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• 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

  Sports, Baseball, Moving

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• 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

  Needs, Gears, Fields

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• You can't hit what you can't see; I float like a butterfly and sting like a bee!

  Walter Johnson

  Baseball, Pitching, Twins

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Bruce Sutter

  Important, Three

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• Walter Johnson's fastball looked about the size of a watermelon seed and it hissed at you as it passed.

  Ty Cobb

  Baseball, Size, Johnson

  Ty Cobb, Al Stump (1961). “My life in baseball: the true record”

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• I will send a fastball into the cyber hole.

  Tim Lincecum

  Holes, Cyber

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• Losing is the bane and bugbear of every professional athlete's existence, but in baseball the monster seems to hang closer than in other sports, its chilly claws and foul breath palpable around the neck hairs of the infielder bending for his crosshand scoop or the reliever slipping his first two fingers off-center on the ball seams before delivering his two-and-two cut fastball.

  Roger Angell

  Sports, Baseball, Athlete

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• 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

  Splits, Curveballs, Throwing

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• 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

  League, Stuff, Lost

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• At 19, I was still figuring out how to throw a fastball.

  Gio Gonzalez

  Stills

  "Answer Man: Gio Gonzalez talks getting traded, Cy Young, Strasburg shutdown and the Chevy Geo Big League Stew". Interview with David Brown, sports.yahoo.com. October 6, 2012.

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

  Mo'ne Davis

  Curveballs

  "Mo'ne Davis' legacy isn't done with this Little League World Series" by Nathan Fenno, www.theguardian.com. August 22, 2014.

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• 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

  Vocabulary, Curves, Law

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• Once the record was mine, I had to use it like a Louisville Slugger. I believed, and still do, that there was a reason why I was chosen to break the record. I feel it's my task to carry on where Jackie Robinson left off, and I only know of one way to go about it. It's the only way I've ever had of dealing with things like fastballs and bigotry -- keep swinging at them.

  Hank Aaron

  Louisville, Use, Records

  Hank Aaron (2009). “I Had a Hammer: The Hank Aaron Story”, p.18, Harper Collins

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• Pitching is what you have best on the day you work, and if you cant get your fastball over the plate, then maybe you can win with your curve.

  Tom Seaver

  Winning, Curves, Pitching

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• My dad played for a coal-mining team in eastern Ohio; he was a very good pitcher. If he hadn't hurt his arm, he probably would have got a shot somewhere. He hurt his arm one spring, didn't warm up good enough, couldn't throw a fastball anymore. Another coal miner taught him how to throw the knuckleball.

  Phil Niekro

  Hurt, Dad, Team

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• 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

  Baseball, Successful, Intelligent

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• 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

  Confidence, Skills, Silence

  Franklyn Ajaye (2002). “Comic Insights: The Art of Stand-up Comedy”

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• 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

  Giving, Suffering, Nastiness

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• 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

  Curves, Guy, Lefties

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