Fastball Quotes

No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball. Casey Stengel
Worth Would Would-Be Darn Could Hot Catcher Without Handle Pitcher Who Baseball Fastball
The reason I think I'm a good pitcher is I locate my fastball and I change speeds. Period. That's what you do to pitch. That's what pitchers have to do to win games. Greg Maddux
Good You Change Win Think Speeds Locate Period Pitch Pitcher Pitchers Games Reason Fastball
Most pitchers fear losing their fastball, but since I don't have one, I have nothing to fear but fear itself. Dan Quisenberry
Fear Losing Nothing Since Most Itself Pitchers Fastball
I feel like a pioneer with the split-fingered fastball. I was the first one to really throw it pretty much 100 percent of the time. It was a pitch that I had to have. If I didn't have it, I wouldn't have been in the big leagues. Bruce Sutter
Time First Big Pretty Percent Throw Had Feel Leagues Like First One Been Big Leagues Pioneer Pitch Much Really Fastball
I was short with my fastball and breaking ball. Bruce Sutter
Ball Short Breaking Fastball
I thought I had to show all my stuff and I almost tore the boards of the grandstand with my fastball. Cy Young
Thought Had Almost Stuff Boards Show Fastball
At 19, I was still figuring out how to throw a fastball. Gio Gonzalez
Out Throw How Still Figuring Fastball
That's why it's so important to have that gap between your fastball and off-speed pitches: then, when you effectively locate your fastball, it plays at a higher velocity. Jake Arrieta
You Important Locate Higher Between Velocity Effectively Pitches Then Your Gap Why Fastball Plays
I know my fastball command will get even better. Jason Hammel
Better Will Know Command Get Even Fastball
I'm not executing my pitches. I'm not commanding my fastball, and I get behind in the count. When I try to throw strikes, I'm getting hurt. That's not the way I pitch. Johan Santana
Hurt Try Strikes Way Throw Count Executing Commanding Get Pitch Getting Pitches Behind Fastball
I'm pretty proud of my fastball. I can throw a screwball. It's not as accurate, and I don't have the velocity like I do with my fastball, but I think my fastball is not too shabby. Kylie Bunbury
Think Too Shabby Pretty Throw Velocity Like Proud Accurate Fastball
I'm the kind of guy who, if I look inside and they throw me a fastball outside, and it's a strike, I'm going to swing. Everything in the strike zone, I'm going to swing. Doesn't matter if it's a fastball, changeup, breaking ball. If it's in the strike zone and it's something you like, you've got to swing. Miguel Cabrera
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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
Good Hurt Somewhere Spring Enough Miner Eastern Would Throw He Arm Him Another Got How His Up Very Pitcher Taught Ohio Anymore Warm Shot Coal Team Dad Fastball Played
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
Whatever Nowadays Slider Throw Throwing Never Knew Learned How Pitcher Fastball
If you can't see the rotation and tell if it's a sink - a fastball, then you have to be able to tell whether that fastball is a two-seamer or a four-seamer. You have to be able to recognize if it's a slider or a curveball. You have to be able to recognize if it's a changeup or a split-finger. Reggie Jackson
You Slider Recognize Tell See Able Sink Whether Then Rotation Fastball
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
Good Me Lost Something Had Stuff League Come Up Then Rescued Keep Fastball
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
Law Better Vocabulary Had Studied Term Came Than Did Curve Little Realize Then Fastball
Pitching is what you have best on the day you work, and if you can't get your fastball over the plate, then maybe you can win with your curve. Tom Seaver
Work Best Day You Win Over Get Maybe Pitching Curve Then Your Plate Fastball
Sometimes my arm wants to throw a hard fastball, but my brain doesn't want to throw it that hard. Zack Greinke
Sometimes Throw Arm Brain Want Wants Hard Fastball
If you can constantly just put pressure on all four quadrants, it gives you a little more leverage to be able to fill the zone up with breaking balls and fastball counts - or with breaking balls when guys are maybe sitting on the fastball that you've established. Gerrit Cole
You Pressure Constantly Able Guys More Gives Put Counts Balls Up Sitting Maybe Just Established Breaking Little Fill Fastball Four Leverage Zone
Cleaning up that lack of the definition between the two, and then leaning on the four-seam, having it become my primary fastball over my two-seam, it's just benefited me as a whole. Gerrit Cole
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You continue to try to hammer out fastball command the best you can. Gerrit Cole
Best You Try Out Command Continue Hammer Fastball
That's when I'm at my best. When I can throw a fastball over in the count, just throw strikes both in and away, it just sets up all my stuff. Max Scherzer
Best Sets Strikes I Can Both Throw Count Stuff Over Up Just Away Fastball

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