Ball parks are smaller and baseballs are livelier. They've…

In the old days, you know, they didn't have batting cages. And in most ball parks, they only had one runway to the dugout.

— Pete Rose

Knuckleball pitching is a very small fraternity.

— Tim Wakefield

There are two theories on hitting the knuckleball. Unfortunately, neither of them work.

— Charley Lau

You don't catch the knuckleball, you defend against it.

— Joe Torre

Throwing a knuckleball for a strike is like throwing a butterfly with hiccups across the street into your neighbor's mailbox.

— Willie Stargell

There's very few pitching coaches that I worked with that actually came out on the mound and told me what I was doing wrong…

— Phil Niekro

It's a pitch you can extend your career with because it's less taxing on your body. It's like dog years, but in reverse. I…

— R.A. Dickey

You know, catching the knuckleball, it's like trying to catch a fly with a chopstick.

— Jason Varitek

It's (Phil Niekro's knuckleball) like watching Mario Andretti park a car.

— Ralph Kiner

I don't really feel much more confident than I did the last couple years. I've always felt like I have a pretty good knuckleball.…

— R.A. Dickey

The # knuckleball can be a metaphor of what it's like to let go.

— R.A. Dickey

I remember going to see my dad pitch against other coal-mining teams, and he was successful with the knuckleball. I saw how bad guys…

— Phil Niekro

[A knuckleball is] a curve ball that doesn't give a damn.

— Jimmy Cannon

Never reach for the knuckleball; I just let it come to me.

— Rick Ferrell

Look for the seams (on a knuckleball) and then hit in-between them.

— Harmon Killebrew