Top 95 Fastball Quotes & Sayings

I'm not like a 90-mph fastball kind of guy, but I can hit 70 on radar gun.

The final release point for the fastball is the tips of your fingers.

I try to do two things: locate my fastball and change speeds. That's it. I try to keep as simple as possible. I just throw my fastball (to) both sides of the plate and change speed every now and then. There is no special food or anything like that, I just try to make quality pitches and try to be prepared each time I go out there.

I can maybe depend on my fastball a little more than some other pitchers.

The foundation is spotting my fastball, early in counts and especially if I fall behind.

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.

The biggest thing was just working on fastball location and getting ahead of guys.

I'm the kind of guy who, if I look inside and they throw me a fastball outside, and it's a strike, I'm going to swing. Everything in the strike zone, I'm going to swing. Doesn't matter if it's a fastball, changeup, breaking ball. If it's in the strike zone and it's something you like, you've got to swing.

The thing about throwing a fastball is, you want it to be easy, you want it to be effortless.

I trust that I can hit a fastball, that I can hit any pitch they throw to me.

No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball.

If you can't see the rotation and tell if it's a sink - a fastball, then you have to be able to tell whether that fastball is a two-seamer or a four-seamer. You have to be able to recognize if it's a slider or a curveball. You have to be able to recognize if it's a changeup or a split-finger.

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.

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.

I throw my curveball like Clayton Kershaw and my fastball like Mo'ne Davis.

I like the two-seam fastball. That's a pitch I'm fascinated with.

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.

When they operated, I told them to put in a Koufax fastball. They did-but it was Mrs. Koufax's.

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.

I was short with my fastball and breaking ball.

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

Most pitchers fear losing their fastball, but since I don't have one, I have nothing to fear but fear itself.

Everybody wants to know, 'How do you throw a curveball, how do you throw a slider, how do you throw this and that,' when they can't even locate a fastball. Learn how to control your fastball and then once you've got that, move on to other things.

Everyone wants to talk about my slider, and how effective it is, but it really can't be without fastball command. It starts with my fastball, even if the slider is the pitch I want to get to.

I kept listening in the minor leagues, and even earlier than that, people would say, 'If you don't hit the fastball, you're not going to get to the big leagues.' Every game, you're going to get a fastball.

I want to make my fastball better. How do I high-grade my fastball to make it the best fastball in the league? I can only throw so hard. I'm close to my genetic ceiling on my velocity.

Walter Johnson's fastball looked about the size of a watermelon seed and it hissed at you as it passed.

I will send a fastball into the cyber hole.

Death ain't nothing but a fastball on the outside corner.

Fastball middle-middle. You can't miss that pitch.

The good rising fastball is the best pitch in baseball.

I've got some good movement on my sinking fastball, and I rely on that.

I studied one term of law and then came to realize I had a little better fastball and curve than I did a vocabulary.

You continue to try to hammer out fastball command the best you can.

I know my fastball command will get even better.

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. All I ever had was a fastball, a curve and a changeup and I did pretty good.

The last batter to hit, blast shattered your hip, Smash any splitter or fastball-that'll be it.

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

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.

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.

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.

Most pitchers fear losing their fastball and, since I don't have one, the only thing I have to fear is fear itself.

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.

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

That's why it's so important to have that gap between your fastball and off-speed pitches: then, when you effectively locate your fastball, it plays at a higher velocity.

If you can constantly just put pressure on all four quadrants, it gives you a little more leverage to be able to fill the zone up with breaking balls and fastball counts - or with breaking balls when guys are maybe sitting on the fastball that you've established.

At 19, I was still figuring out how to throw a fastball.

I've always been fastball-curveball and really relied on that pitch, and when it goes away, it just totally changes how you attack hitters.

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.

You have to hit the fastball to play in the big leagues.

My best pitch is my fastball. It's probably the most difficult pitch to hit. In my case, batters have very little reaction time.

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.

I thought I had to show all my stuff and I almost tore the boards of the grandstand with my fastball.

I may be wearing makeup, but I can throw a fastball by you at the same time.

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.

I'm pretty proud of my fastball. I can throw a screwball. It's not as accurate, and I don't have the velocity like I do with my fastball, but I think my fastball is not too shabby.

You've got to be ready for the fastball.

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

I threw a good fastball and changeup, but a below-average curveball.

Once (Stan) Musial timed your fastball, your infielders were in jeopardy.