I need love like a fastball needs control

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

— Casey Stengel

I know who's the best pitcher I ever see and it's old Satchel Paige, that big lanky colored boy. My fastball looks like a…

— Dizzy Dean

(Dwight Gooden) his fastball crackling , his curveball dropping as suddenly as a duck shot in the air, has begun his charge for a…

— Ira Berkow

That's why it's so important to have that gap between your fastball and off-speed pitches: then, when you effectively locate your fastball, it plays…

— Jake Arrieta

I was short with my fastball and breaking ball.

— Bruce Sutter

Fastball middle-middle. You can't miss that pitch.

— Mookie Betts

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…

— Roger Clemens

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

I consciously memorized the speed at which every pitcher in the league threw his fastball, curve, and slider. Then, I'd pick up the speed…

— Stan Musial

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

— Ben Gibbard

I guess I prefer the laughs. I couldn't do a whole set of just shocks, but I like throwing a fastball inside every now…

— Anthony Jeselnik

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

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

— Ted Williams

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

— Joe Adcock

Im a power guy. Good fastball. A knuckle curve, which I can throw for strikes. A change up which sinks down and away from…

— Justin Verlander