Fastballs Quotes - Page 2

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

  August Wilson

  Death, Corners

  August Wilson, Larry Fishburne, Samuel G Freedman, Tony Kushner, Romulus Linney (2007). “August Wilson Century Cycle”

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• 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

  Cutting, Looks, Sometimes

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• 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

  People, Laughing, Toes

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. July 9, 2013.

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• You have to hit the fastball to play in the big leagues.

  Ted Williams

  Play, League, Bigs

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• No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball.

  Casey Stengel

  Sports, Baseball, Hot

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• 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

  Back In The Day, Curveballs, Pitcher

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

  Albert Pujols

  I Can

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• 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

  Past, Careers, Balls

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

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• 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

  Men, Curves, Feet

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• The thing about throwing a fastball is, you want it to be easy, you want it to be effortless.

  Josh Beckett

  Want, Easy, Throwing

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• I threw a lot more curveballs in college and the minor leagues. Up here, they're looking for that pitch. A curveball is more recognizable out of the hand than a fastball or changeup. They're taking them or hitting the mistakes I make with them. I don't want it to be so recognizable. I'll have to work with that because that was my pitch.

  Tim Lincecum

  Mistake, College, Hands

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• 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

  Baseball, Fun, Real

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

  Tommy John

  Baseball

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• The final release point for the fastball is the tips of your fingers.

  Steve Carlton

  Sports, Finals, Release

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• I'm not going out and hitting a 95-mph fastball where I can't see the stitches. I'm not on a professional football team looking to tackle a fullback who is built like solid wood. I'm a thinking person, and I've been blessed with the ability to see some things and talk about them in a way that registers in a humorous and funny way.

  Bill Cosby

  Thanksgiving, Football, Team

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• 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 thirty feet of its flight and knew how it would move once it had crossed the plate.

  Stan Musial

  Moving, Curves, Feet

  "Stan Musial, baseball great, dies at 92", www.sfgate.com. January 19, 2013.

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• It (the slider) just rolls off of your index finger and begins it's spin which will take it down and across the plate (hopefully). Just remember not to twist your elbow or wrist. It should be thrown, with the wrist and grip set, just like your fastball, slightly off center - with the same velocity and intensity.

  Steve Carlton

  Elbows, Down And, Velocity

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• 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

  Important, Release, Hard

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• The last batter to hit, blast shattered your hip,
  Smash any splitter or fastball-that'll be it.

  Pharoahe Monch

  Rap, Hip Hop, Lasts

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• It's not fear of striking out that makes me reluctant to step up to the plate. It's the fear of getting hit in the head by a 90 mph fastball, the pitcher coming off of the mound to stomp me with her cleats while I am down, the rest of the opposing team rushing out of the dugout hurling insults as they kick me and spit on me, while all along the crowd in the stands is cheering them on and laughing at my failure. So, no, it's not the fear of striking out that keeps me from stepping up to the plate.

  Jim Copeland

  Cheer, Fear, Team

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• I try to do two things: locate my fastball and change speeds. That's it. I try to keep as simple as possible. I just throw my fastball (to) both sides of the plate and change speed every now and then. There is no special food or anything like that, I just try to make quality pitches and try to be prepared each time I go out there.

  Greg Maddux

  Simple, Two, Special

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• 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

  Boys, Looks, Pace

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• 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

  Smart, Curves, Different

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

  Luis Tiant

  Baseball, Moving, Pitching

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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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