Fastballs Quotes

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

  Tom Seaver

  Baseball, Rising

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

  Bruce Sutter

  Important, Three

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• Once (Stan) Musial timed your fastball, your infielders were in jeopardy.

  Warren Spahn

  Funny Baseball, Jeopardy

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• Trying to sneak a fastball by Ted Williams was like trying to sneak a sunbeam by a rooster in the morning.

  Bob Feller

  Morning, Trying, Roosters

  "Bob Feller, Whose Fastball Dazzled, Dies at 92" by Richard Goldstein, www.nytimes.com. December 15, 2010.

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• I'm not like a 90-mph fastball kind of guy, but I can hit 70 on radar gun.

  Ben Gibbard

  Baseball, Gun, Player

  "Death Cab For Cutie's Ben Gibbard Has A Wicked Knuckler But Needs Some Control" by MTV, April 21, 2010.

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• Later, I could take something off my slider and I could make my fastball sink, so I really had four pitches.

  Dennis Eckersley

  Sports, Four

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• 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

  Curves, Knuckles, Seven

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• Most pitchers fear losing their fastball and, since I don't have one, the only thing I have to fear is fear itself.

  Dan Quisenberry

  Losing, Pitcher

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• I may be wearing makeup, but I can throw a fastball by you at the same time.

  Jennie Finch

  Inspiring, Makeup, May

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• The last start of spring training, my (cut fastball) was okay. It just wasn't what I wanted it to be. I tried to work on making it cut more and do more. I think that set (the forearm) off ... trying to make it move a lot, cut a lot. I'm just going to back off and trust it a little bit more and not try and push that.

  Roy Halladay

  Spring, Moving, Cutting

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• But the Twins opened the fifth with their second and third hits, and Beltre helped Hernandez by taking his bullet throw for a force at third on a bunt try. I felt it, ... My only worry was that he didn't throw me a sinker. He threw hard, but a good fastball.

  Adrian Beltre

  Worry, Trying, Bullets

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• I had to will my way through that game. Sometimes, it takes more than talent or more than a 95-mile-an-hour fastball. You have to will it.

  Roger Clemens

  Baseball, Games, Way

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• John Wetteland had a very good curveball. He threw it for a strike, too, in any count, any situation. But, he really didnt use it much. He didnt want to throw it. He wanted to throw fastball-slider.

  Jorge Posada

  Use, Want, Strikes

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• 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

  Sports, Baseball, Winning

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• When Bryan Price taught me how to throw a changeup, he made me see myself. All my life, I've been the equivalent of a fastball pitcher - trying to use blazing speed and brute force to wow the people around me.

  Eric Liu

  People, Trying, Wow

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• (Dwight Gooden) his fastball crackling , his curveball dropping as suddenly as a duck shot in the air, has begun his charge for a third straight award-winning season.

  Ira Berkow

  Baseball, Winning, Awards

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