Fastball Quotes
- The last start of spring training, my (cut fastball) was okay. It just wasn't what I wanted it to be. I tried to work on… — Roy Halladay
- But the Twins opened the fifth with their second and third hits, and Beltre helped Hernandez by taking his bullet throw for a force at… — Adrian Beltre
- 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… — Roger Clemens
- The final release point for the fastball is the tips of your fingers. — Steve Carlton
- I'm not going out and hitting a 95-mph fastball where I can't see the stitches. I'm not on a professional football team looking to tackle… — Bill Cosby
- Losing is the bane and bugbear of every professional athlete's existence, but in baseball the monster seems to hang closer than in other sports, its… — Roger Angell
- At 19, I was still figuring out how to throw a fastball. — Gio Gonzalez
- I throw my curveball like Clayton Kershaw and my fastball like Mo'ne Davis. — Mo'ne Davis
- When Bryan Price taught me how to throw a changeup, he made me see myself. All my life, I've been the equivalent of a fastball… — Eric Liu
- No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball. — Casey Stengel
- You have to hit the fastball to play in the big leagues. — Ted Williams
- Death ain't nothing but a fastball on the outside corner. — August Wilson
- The good rising fastball is the best pitch in baseball. — Tom Seaver
- Walter Johnson's fastball looked about the size of a watermelon seed and it hissed at you as it passed. — Ty Cobb
- I was short with my fastball and breaking ball. — Bruce Sutter
- 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
- 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… — Ted Lyons
- Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster. — Unknown Author
- I thought I had to show all my stuff and I almost tore the boards of the grandstand with my fastball. — Cy Young
- Im a power guy. Good fastball. A knuckle curve, which I can throw for strikes. A change up which sinks down and away from lefties… — Justin Verlander