Joaquin Andujar Quotes

You fool around with different pitches playing catch, but it's not the same when you've got to face some guy with a bat in his hand.

Maybe I'm biased because I'm a pitcher, but I think that's pretty cool that a guy can throw a ball 100 miles an hour.

Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.

Strikeouts are part of my game.

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

You've got to be ready for the fastball.

You could ask any position player and they'll tell you: pitchers aren't athletes.

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

Show me a guy who can't pitch inside and I'll show you a loser.

I know Koufax' weakness. He can't hit.

I threw a lot of fastballs in college.

Hitting is not an exact science.

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

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

I swing hard all the time. That's what I've done my whole life - hit.

I loved running. I can catch everything in the outfield. I could throw people out from the fence.

Baseball is all about pitching, and we know we have to improve our pitching.

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

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

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

I don't like to sound egotistical, but every time I stepped up to the plate with a bat in my hands, I couldn't help but feel sorry for the pitcher.

I could run, but I was throwing 93 mph coming out of high school.

Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball.

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

The phrase 'off with the crack of the bat', while romantic, is really meaningless, since the outfielder should be in motion long before he hears the sound of the ball meeting the bat.