Quotes About Fastball

The good rising fastball is the best pitch in baseball.

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.

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

I've always been fastball-curveball and really relied on that pitch, and when it goes away, it just totally changes how you attack hitters.

Most pitchers fear losing their fastball, but since I don't have one, I have nothing to fear but fear itself.

I can maybe depend on my fastball a little more than some other pitchers.

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

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.

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.

They booed Jay lightly; they didn't mind seeing him suffer a little—not with that $27,500 salary he won after a holdout this spring. They applauded Koufax, the Dodger pitcher, who was working easily and impressively, mixing fast balls and curves and an occasional changeup, pitching in and out to the batters, and hitting the corners. Koufax looked almost ready for opening day.

Oh, his speed was no shock—speed was never Alec's problem. It was his precision that astonished. Because listen: How many pitchers in any league have a fastball with its own nickname? And what kind of fastball earns the name Mad Mouse? I will tell you: the kind that twists in crackling without one notion where it's going. The kind you don't see but hear hissing to itself like the bottle rocket before the bang.

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

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

Doubleday's First Law, which states that if you throw a fastball with insufficient speed, someone will smack it out of the park with a stick.

Sandy's fastball was so fast, some batters would start to swing as he was on his way to the mound.

I like the two-seam fastball. That's a pitch I'm fascinated with.

The biggest thing was just working on fastball location and getting ahead of guys.

The foundation is spotting my fastball, early in counts and especially if I fall behind.

Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster.

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

The reason that that episode is a bore, in my opinion, is that there is no allegory. It is on the nose. It is a fastball down the middle, and it feels preachy. Suddenly, you're not deriving the meaning from the episode, the meaning is clobbering you over the head.

My best pitch is my fastball. It's probably the most difficult pitch to hit. In my case, batters have very little reaction time.

I was always the kind of hitter that if you threw it 92 miles per hour at me, I'd hit it right back at you.

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.