Knuckleballs Quotes

• Like some cult religion that barely survives, there has always been at least one but rarely more than five or six devotees throwing the knuckleball in the big leagues . . . Not only can't pitchers control it, hitters can't hit it, catchers can't catch it, coaches can't coach it and most pitchers can't learn it. The perfect pitch.

  Ron Luciano

  League, Perfect, Six

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• Throwing a knuckleball for a strike is like throwing a butterfly with hiccups across the street into your neighbor's mailbox.

  Willie Stargell

  Butterfly, Hiccups, Neighbor

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• The #‎ knuckleball can be a metaphor of what it's like to let go.

  R.A. Dickey

  Letting Go, Metaphor

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• The way to catch a knuckleball is to wait until it stops rolling and then pick it up.

  Bob Uecker

  Sports, Waiting, Funny Baseball

  Bill Schroeder, Drew Olson, Craig Counsell, Bob Uecker (2016). “If These Walls Could Talk: Milwaukee Brewers: Stories from the Milwaukee Brewers Dugout, Locker Room, and Press Box”, p.45, Triumph Books

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• You know, catching the knuckleball, it's like trying to catch a fly with a chopstick.

  Jason Varitek

  Trying, Chopsticks, Catching

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• There are two theories on hitting the knuckleball. Unfortunately, neither of them work.

  Charley Lau

  Inspirational, Motivational, Baseball

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• [A knuckleball is] a curve ball that doesn't give a damn.

  Jimmy Cannon

  Baseball, Curves, Giving

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• It's a pitch you can extend your career with because it's less taxing on your body. It's like dog years, but in reverse. I feel like I'm 27 or 26 in knuckleball years!

  R.A. Dickey

  Dog, Years, Careers

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• You don't catch the knuckleball, you defend against it.

  Joe Torre

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• He (Hoyt Wilhelm) had the best knuckleball you'd ever want to see. He knew where it was going when he threw it, but when he got two strikes on you, he'd break out one that even he didn't know where it was going.

  Brooks Robinson

  Two, Break Out, Want

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• It's (Phil Niekro's knuckleball) like watching Mario Andretti park a car.

  Ralph Kiner

  Car, Parks, Mario

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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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• 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

  Thinking, May, Boxes

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• I don't really feel much more confident than I did the last couple years. I've always felt like I have a pretty good knuckleball. I worked hard to do that.?

  R.A. Dickey

  Couple, Years, Lasts

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• Look for the seams (on a knuckleball) and then hit in-between them.

  Harmon Killebrew

  Looks

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

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• I couldn't throw a knuckleball if my life depended on it.

  Gio Gonzalez

  Ifs

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

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