Hideki Irabu had a very good curveball. Just a straight up and down, swing-and-miss curveball.
I was 11 years old and have the same curveball I have now. So I was literally striking everybody out. I always threw hard, and I was bigger than all the kids, so I would throw hard and throw that curveball, and no one could hit me.
You can't find a bad count to throw a curveball.
You don't last too long in baseball if you can't hit the curveball.
I couldn't hit a home run to save my life, and I was a sucker for the curveball.
I threw a good fastball and changeup, but a below-average curveball.
I'm always very excited by something that's a curveball or from left field.
Carrots might be good for my eyes, but they won't straighten out the curveball.
When I can buy strikes with that curveball, that just lets everything else play up.
An artistic perspective will jab at you from a different angle; its logic comes like a pitcher with a curveball.
You never hit a good slider or curveball; you just try to go after the mistakes.
This is a bit of curveball, but people who are really good kissers never have anything given to them.
I was planning to be a baseball player until I ran into something called a curveball. And that set me back.
When the catcher throws down a curveball, I'm like, 'Okay, I can definitely do that.' If I miss with it, I'm still ready to throw it again.
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.
Anytime my life has ever thrown me a curveball, I can go back to that and draw a lot of confidence for myself knowing I can persevere.