Quotes About Skill

I threw a good fastball and changeup, but a below-average curveball.

That was the biggest thrill, going over to these guy's houses and having them want me to practice with them and they would show me a lot of stuff, which was really advanced stuff to me at my age.

Nothing thrills me more than to be good at something. It's very rewarding, and I feel grateful and blessed, and I never take it for granted.

Even the thunderous master-blasters, like Andre Russell and MS Dhoni, men who now make scoring more than 20 runs per over look simple, often thrive on the right side of an incredibly slender gap between six and out. They are not more lucky than anyone else. They are more brilliant.

Some players thrive in the open-style, AAU games - the all-star games. But when it comes to playing in an actual system and having to 'think' the game, you see where some guys separated themselves.

If you can sing, you never lose your voice. If you don't know how to sing, your voice goes away because you sing from your throat.

As a surgeon you have to have a controlled arrogance. If it's uncontrolled, you kill people, but you have to be pretty arrogant to saw through a person's chest, take out their heart and believe you can fix it. Then, when you succeed and the patient survives, you pray, because it's only by the grace of God that you get there.

There is no defense against a perfect pass. I can throw the perfect pass.

Ken Holtzman could pitch a game in ninety minutes. Wouldn't throw a breaking ball. And he had a great breaking ball.

When someone has speed they throw four punches to your one, you cannot beat them.

Javelin throw is a very technical event and a lot depends on the day's form.

That's what everybody calls me, 'Cheat Code,' because they just throw the ball up to me.

It just tickles me still when you see Roger Clemens, as great as he is, throw a split-finger and the hitter just swings and misses. They don't see that ball that well. Jack Morris threw an awful good one and Mike Scott. There's a lot of great pitchers over the years that I think that pitch definitely helped their career.

I throw better than anybody in college and I can throw with anybody in the pros. There, that's what I think.

I boxed in Golden Gloves at Oxford and still know how to throw a straight left jab.

I was 11 years old and have the same curveball I have now. So I was literally striking everybody out. I always threw hard, and I was bigger than all the kids, so I would throw hard and throw that curveball, and no one could hit me.

Even the basics of learning how to throw a good punch is very hard.

Obviously I'm not 21 anymore, but I think I can still throw with anybody.

Rick Barry always amazed me - he was one of the best free-throw shooters of all time, and he used to throw it underhand.

But because I could throw so hard when I got to college they made me a pitcher.

I always had the ability to throw a frisbee pretty well. I don't why.

I know I don't throw very hard anymore, but I'd like to think I can still hurt a guy who's not looking.

That was like throwing three pickled onions into a thimble!

My batting practice would be a guy throwing balls in the way in which I liked it. It was all about getting ball on bat, rather than something whizzing past your ear.