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Fastball Quotes & Sayings

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

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

Only a psychological freak could approach a 100-mph fastball aimed not all that far from his head with total confidence. "Lenny — Michael Lewis

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

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

I thought I had to show all my stuff and I almost tore the boards of the grandstand with my fastball. — Cy Young

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

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

Death ain't nothing but a fastball on the outside corner. — August Wilson

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

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

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

The last batter to hit, blast shattered your hip,
Smash any splitter or fastball-that'll be it. — Pharoahe Monch

The good rising fastball is the best pitch in baseball. — Tom Seaver

You have to hit the fastball to play in the big leagues. — Ted Williams

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

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

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

Back in the day when I played, a pitcher had 3 pitches: a fastball, a curveball, a slider, a changeup and a good sinker pitch. — Mike Shannon

I was short with my fastball and breaking ball. — Bruce Sutter

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

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

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

The thing about throwing a fastball is, you want it to be easy, you want it to be effortless. — Josh Beckett

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

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. — Jim Bouton

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

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

I need love like a fastball needs control — Javier Velasco

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

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

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

I trust that I can hit a fastball, that I can hit any pitch they throw to me. — Albert Pujols