The # knuckleball can be a metaphor of what it's like to…

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

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

Like some cult religion that barely survives, there has always been at least one but rarely more than five or six devotees throwing the…

— Ron Luciano

I couldn't throw a knuckleball if my life depended on it.

— Gio Gonzalez

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

— Harmon Killebrew

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

He (Hoyt Wilhelm) had the best knuckleball you'd ever want to see. He knew where it was going when he threw it, but when…

— Brooks Robinson

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

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

— Jimmy Cannon

A metaphor is like a simile.

— Steven Wright

“The regularity of the clock was a metaphor for the accuracy of the universe. For the accuracy of God's creative achievement. So the clock…

— Peter Høeg

Look who's calling the cauldron black." "Kettle. It’s a kettle. Get your metaphors right." "That wasn’t a metaphor. It was a, you know..." He…

— Richelle Mead