Fastballs Quotes

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

You've got to be ready for the fastball. ~ Ted Williams

I use fast curves, pitched overhand and sidearm, fastballs, high and inside, and an underhand fade away pitch with the hand almost down to the level of the knees. ~ Chief Bender

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

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

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

I will send a fastball into the cyber hole. ~ Tim Lincecum

Trying to sneak a fastball by Ted Williams was like trying to sneak a sunbeam by a rooster in the morning, ~ Bob Feller

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

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

At 19, I was still figuring out how to throw a fastball. ~ Gio Gonzalez

The three most important pitches I threw in my life were all fastballs. ~ Bruce Sutter

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Once (Stan) Musial timed your fastball, your infielders were in jeopardy. ~ Warren Spahn

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

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