Charles Comiskey Quotes

I'm a fly-ball pitcher, guys.

My fingers are too short to enable me to get grip enough on the ball to pitch a deep curve, so that I have been compelled to depend more on drops, straight balls and the different artifices known to pitchers to deceive the batter.

I couldn't throw a knuckleball if my life depended on it.

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

I'm a breaking-ball pitcher.

Hideki Irabu had a very good curveball. Just a straight up and down, swing-and-miss curveball.

Never reach for the knuckleball; I just let it come to me.

Anybody's best pitch is the one the batters ain't hitting that day.

Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world.

Striking out batters was easy.

You can't find a bad count to throw a curveball.

How do you catch a knuckleball? You wait until it stops rolling, then go pick it up.

It just tickles me still when you see Roger Clemens, as great as he is, throw a split-finger and the hitter just swings and misses. They don't see that ball that well. Jack Morris threw an awful good one and Mike Scott. There's a lot of great pitchers over the years that I think that pitch definitely helped their career.

Once a year, I take my whole wine team down to see the Giants, and we meet the players. I've never seen anyone pitch like Lincecum that can throw the ball and get through the front leg. He has that stiff front leg.

You still have to pitch the same game, execute your pitches as best you can. If the shadows end up helping you out, then great, but you can't really worry about that stuff.

I never threw the spitter, well maybe once or twice when I really needed to get a guy out real bad.

Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.

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

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

It's not fun facing a ball going 97 mph, trust me.

As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher's mound. It was as if I'd been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy.

We need three kinds of pitching: left handed, right handed, and relief.

I never resorted to the spitter until I was obliged to. I nearly ruined my arm throwing curves.

The difference between a home run and a swing-and-a-miss is, what, an inch and a half? You can throw a great pitch, the guy makes a great swing. And if it's at a guy, it's an out. That's the beauty of baseball, really. There's not just one guy in control.

When you can throw 97 miles an hour and put the ball over the plate anytime you want, it's fun.