Fastballs Quote by Warren Spahn Download Open image “Once (Stan) Musial timed your fastball, your infielders were in jeopardy.” — Warren Spahn ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fastballs Funny Funny baseball Inspirational Jeopardy Love Music Success
I could have rolled the ball up there against Musial, and he would have pulled out a golf club and hit it out. — Don Newcombe Copy Share Image
I hope by the time that I'm done in this game, I can have half the numbers Stan Musial had in his career. — Albert Pujols Copy Share Image
Kerry Wood had the best fastball. He threw one at my kneecaps once. I don't know how I jackknifed away. He might not have… — Chipper Jones Copy Share Image
I lost the good stuff on my fastball. I had to come up with something to keep me in the league. The knuckler rescued… — Ted Lyons Copy Share Image
“Doubleday’s First Law, which states that if you throw a fastball with insufficient speed, someone will smack it out of the park with a… — Jim Bouton Copy Share Image
As more speed afoot was constantly demanded for big league ball, I noticed the many infield bounders which the runner beat to first only… — Bobby Wallace Copy Share Image
Everybody in St. Louis, every kid in St. Louis, wanted to be Stan Musial. He was the best. — Mike Shannon Copy Share Image
One time I snuck a ball on with me and when I went to winding up, I threw one of them balls to first… — Satchel Paige Copy Share Image
“When it was [Larry] Bird's turn [to sign souvenir Team USA basketballs], he said to [Brian] McIntyre ' What's the quickest it's taken anyone… — Jack McCallum Copy Share Image
As an infielder, I know how tough it is to catch a ball that's a line drive right at you in between. — Carlos Correa Copy Share Image
I did want to lock each game up before Final Jeopardy, to avoid losing to a bad bounce in that round. — James Holzhauer Copy Share Image
I throw just as hard as ever - it just takes twice as long to get there. — Warren Spahn Copy Share Image
He was something like zero for twenty-one the first time I saw him. His first major league hit was a home run off me… — Warren Spahn Copy Share Image
I'll never forgive myself. We might have gotten rid of Willie forever if I'd only struck him out. — Warren Spahn Copy Share Image
A sore arm is like a headache or a toothache. It can make you feel bad, but if you just forget about it and… — Warren Spahn Copy Share Image
A pitcher needs two pitches, one they're looking for and one to cross them up. — Warren Spahn Copy Share Image
The difference between winning nineteen games and winning twenty for a pitcher is bigger than anyone out of baseball realizes. It's the same for… — Warren Spahn Copy Share Image
Twenty games is the magic figure for pitchers - .300 is the magic figures for batters. It pays off in salary and reputation. And… — Warren Spahn Copy Share Image
[On Willie Mays] He was something like zero for twenty-one the first time I saw him. His first major league hit was a home… — Warren Spahn Copy Share Image
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,… — Roger Angell Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
(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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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… — Roy Halladay Copy Share Image
You can't hit what you can't see; I float like a butterfly and sting like a bee! — Walter Johnson Copy Share Image
It's no fun throwing fastballs to guys who can't hit them. The real challenge is getting them out on the stuff they can hit. — Sam McDowell Copy Share Image
The dumber a pitcher is, the better. When he gets smart and begins to experiment with a lot of different pitches, he's in trouble.… — Dizzy Dean Copy Share Image
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