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I was short with my fastball and breaking ball. -- Bruce Sutter
The good rising fastball is the best pitch in baseball. -- Tom Seaver
At 19, I was still figuring out how to throw a fastball. -- Gio Gonzalez
You have to hit the fastball to play in the big leagues. -- Ted Williams
The final release point for the fastball is the tips of your fingers. -- Steve Carlton
No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball. -- Casey Stengel
Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster. -- Joe Adcock
Most pitchers fear losing their fastball, but since I don't have one, I have nothing to fear but fear itself. -- Dan Quisenberry
I thought I had to show all my stuff and I almost tore the boards of the grandstand with my fastball. -- Cy Young
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
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 then. -- Ted Lyons
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 a one-pitch pitcher. -- Phil Niekro
Pitching is what you have best on the day you work, and if you can't get your fastball over the plate, then maybe you can win with your curve. -- Tom Seaver
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 throw it past me, none of them. -- Hank Aaron
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 getting hurt. That's not the way I pitch. -- Johan Santana
The reason I think I'm a good pitcher is I locate my fastball and I change speeds. Period. That's what you do to pitch. That's what pitchers have to do to win games. -- Greg Maddux
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 pitcher - trying to use blazing speed and brute force to wow the people around me. -- Eric Liu
I'm not like a 90-mph fastball kind of guy, but I can hit 70 on radar gun. I hit 70 one time on a radar guy at one of those pitch-and-throw kind of things. I have a pretty good arm for somebody who's not a baseball player. -- Ben Gibbard
I feel like a pioneer with the split-fingered fastball. I was the first one to really throw it pretty much 100 percent of the time. It was a pitch that I had to have. If I didn't have it, I wouldn't have been in the big leagues. -- Bruce Sutter
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 of the ball in the first 30 feet of its flight and knew how it would move once it has crossed the plate. -- Stan Musial
My dad played for a coal-mining team in eastern Ohio; he was a very good pitcher. If he hadn't hurt his arm, he probably would have got a shot somewhere. He hurt his arm one spring, didn't warm up good enough, couldn't throw a fastball anymore. Another coal miner taught him how to throw the knuckleball. -- Phil Niekro
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 a fullback who is built like solid wood. I'm a thinking person, and I've been blessed with the ability to see some things and talk about them in a way that registers in a humorous and funny way. -- Bill Cosby
You've got to be ready for the fastball. -- Ted Williams
I will send a fastball into the cyber hole. -- Tim Lincecum
Death ain't nothing but a fastball on the outside corner. -- August Wilson
Once (Stan) Musial timed your fastball, your infielders were in jeopardy. -- Warren Spahn
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The last batter to hit, blast shattered your hip, Smash any splitter or fastball-that'll be it. -- Pharoahe Monch
I may be wearing makeup, but I can throw a fastball by you at the same time. -- Jennie Finch
No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball." -- Casey Stengel
I trust that I can hit a fastball, that I can hit any pitch they throw to me. -- Albert Pujols
When they operated, I told them to put in a Koufax fastball. They did-but it was Mrs. Koufax's. -- Tommy John
The fastball is the best pitch in baseball. It's like having five pitches, if you move it around. -- Luis Tiant
The thing about throwing a fastball is, you want it to be easy, you want it to be effortless. -- Josh Beckett
Walter Johnson's fastball looked about the size of a watermelon seed and it hissed at you as it passed. -- Ty Cobb
Trying to sneak a fastball by Ted Williams was like trying to sneak a sunbeam by a rooster in the morning, -- Bob Feller
Most pitchers fear losing their fastball and, since I don't have one, the only thing I have to fear is fear itself. -- Dan Quisenberry
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
I threw all my pitches over the top which was important for me because my slider was hard to tell from my fastball at release. -- Steve Carlton
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 it. -- Roger Clemens
(Dwight Gooden) his fastball crackling , his curveball dropping as suddenly as a duck shot in the air, has begun his charge for a third straight award-winning season. -- Ira Berkow
Pitching is what you have best on the day you work, and if you cant get your fastball over the plate, then maybe you can win with your curve. -- Tom Seaver
I'm a fastball hitter. It's no secret I'm looking for a fastball every pitch. I think it's one of the hardest things to do in sports-to hit a moving baseball. -- Carlos Delgado
I'm a power guy. Good fastball. A knuckle curve, which I can throw for strikes. A changeup which sinks down and away from lefties and I can also throw for strikes. -- Justin Verlander
My changeup looks like a fastball, but one goes straight and the other goes away from the righthanded hitter. Sometimes it cuts by itself, and I don't know where it's going. -- Johan Santana
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 and then to keep people on their toes. -- Anthony Jeselnik
The reason I think I'm a good pitcher is I locate my fastball and I change speeds. Period. That's what you do to pitch. That's what pitchers have to do to win games -- Greg Maddux

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