Yu Darvish Quotes

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

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.

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

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

I don't recall your name but you sure were a sucker for a high inside curve.

I had some great pitchers while in St. Louis. At first, they only 'pitched' the ball fifty feet. They had an allowance of six bases on balls, which was neutralized to some extent by four strikes. Later on, the 'throw' became a free-for-all, overhand, or any style the pitcher chose.

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

Ken Holtzman could pitch a game in ninety minutes. Wouldn't throw a breaking ball. And he had a great breaking ball.

I'm a fly-ball pitcher, guys.

The Orioles' Dick Hall comes off the mound like a drunk kangaroo on roller skates.

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

Why shouldn't we pitch to Babe Ruth? We pitch to better hitters in the National League.

Son, what kind of pitch would you like to miss.

Striking out batters was easy.

A pitcher has to look at the hitter as his mortal enemy.

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

The pitcher is in trouble, not me. He has to throw it over the plate and I have to put a good swing on it.

Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.

I faced Gibson many times and faced Sandy Koufax three times.

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

Baseball player. Yeah, that was my dream before acting, or alongside acting.

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

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

A pitcher needs two pitches, one they're looking for and one to cross them up.