Fastballs Quote by Steve Carlton

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

— Dennis Eckersley

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

— Bruce Sutter

I love the slider. I'll throw it anytime. It helps the curve. The last five feet, it dives toward the left-handed hitter's box. It's…

— Kerry Wood

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 think the important thing now, getting closer to the pitch counts, it feels like I got something left. I felt I could have…

— Roy Halladay

I have been trained to throw many, many pitches.

— Daisuke Matsuzaka

I'm not executing my pitches. I'm not commanding my fastball, and I get behind in the count. When I try to throw strikes, I'm…

— Johan Santana

I've got to be confident in all the pitches I'm throwing so I can throw anything in any count.

— Matt Cain

Back in the day when I played, a pitcher had 3 pitches: a fastball, a curveball, a slider, a changeup and a good sinker pitch.

— Mike Shannon

My fingers are too short to enable me to get grip enough on the ball to pitch a deep curve, so that I have…

— Pud Galvin

I looked for the same pitch my whole career, a breaking ball. All of the time. I never worried about the fastball. They couldn't…

— Hank Aaron

I'm trying to throw more curves because I'm always throwing fastball, slider, fastball, slider.

— Yu Darvish