Back in the day Quote by Mike Shannon

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

— Dennis Eckersley

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

The three most important pitches I threw in my life were all fastballs.

— Bruce Sutter

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

— Luis Tiant

I threw all my pitches over the top which was important for me because my slider was hard to tell from my fastball at…

— Steve Carlton

Got any pitches? I got five pitches-rise-ball, curveball, screwball, drop-ball and changeup.

— Jennie Finch

I had some great pitchers while in St. Louis. At first, they only 'pitched' the ball fifty feet. They had an allowance of six…

— Charles Comiskey

I never knew how to throw a fastball, never learned how to throw a curveball, a slider, split-finger, whatever they're throwing nowadays. I was…

— Phil Niekro

A pitcher needs two pitches, one they're looking for and one to cross them up.

— Warren Spahn

I don't really know how many pitches I threw. It's kind of what I usually do in a bullpen, minus about, I had a…

— Clayton Kershaw

I wanted to make a lot of good pitches.

— Paul Quantrill

I have been trained to throw many, many pitches.

— Daisuke Matsuzaka