Quotes & Sayings About Fastballs

Once the record was mine, I had to use it like a Louisville Slugger. I believed, and still do, that there was a reason why I was chosen to break the record. I feel it's my task to carry on where Jackie Robinson left off, and I only know of one way to go about it. It's the only way I've ever had of dealing with things like fastballs and bigotry
keep swinging at them. — Hank Aaron

I have to go with the approach I had in Triple-A. I need to take a lot of those fastballs I am seeing to left field. Also must gear up for the changeup and take them up the middle. — Anthony Rizzo

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

TROY: Death ain't nothing. I done seen him. Done wrasled with him. You can't tell me nothing about death. death ain't nothing but a fastball on the outside corner. And you know what I'll do to that! Lookee here, Bono...am I lying? You get one of them fastballs, about waist high, over the outside corner of the plate where you can get the meat of the bat on it...and good god! You can kiss it goodbye. Now, am I lying? — August Wilson

You've got to be ready for the fastball. — Ted Williams

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

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

Every hitter likes fastballs, just like everybody likes ice cream. But you don't like it when someone's stuffing it into you by the gallon. That's what it feels like when Nolan Ryan's thrown balls by you. — Reggie Jackson

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

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

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

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

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

I use fast curves, pitched overhand and sidearm, fastballs, high and inside, and an underhand fade away pitch with the hand almost down to the level of the knees. — Chief Bender

I will send a fastball into the cyber hole. — Tim Lincecum

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