Justin Verlander Quotes

The big thing will be having two pitches you can throw for strikes and developing a change-up, too.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Getting my curveball back and finding another pitch just helped me figure out how to pitch.

When I can buy strikes with that curveball, that just lets everything else play up.

I'm a fly-ball pitcher, guys.

I am a baseball player and I enjoy getting batters out and that is what I want to continue doing.

That's when I'm at my best. When I can throw a fastball over in the count, just throw strikes both in and away, it just sets up all my stuff.

I'm a breaking-ball pitcher.

I'm the one with the wicked curve ball.

I use high velocity to keep hitters off balance.

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.

Balls and strikes are the basic tenet to everything in baseball. From the perspective of hitting, pitching, offense and defense, it's all about the strike zone and how the battle is waged there between the pitcher and hitter.

Striking out batters was easy.

I was short with my fastball and breaking ball.

I think the changeup has become more popular recently by pitchers like Pedro Martinez and the success he had with it.

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

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

At the end of the day, all we're trying to do is get the hitter off balance. Get him in a position where he's not strong in the strike zone.

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.

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.