Matt Harvey Quotes

If I get two strikes, I'll go to a pitch maybe that will help induce that a little bit.

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

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.

As a batter, I would want to see that the best bowler is in my side so I don't have to face him.

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.

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

Can I throw harder than Joe Wood? Listen mister, no man alive can throw any harder than Smokey Joe Wood.

But because I could throw so hard when I got to college they made me a pitcher.

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

I looked for the same pitch my whole career, a breaking ball. All of the time. I never worried about the fastball. They couldn't throw it past me, none of them.

There are some great pitchers in this league. You're going to get fooled sometimes. They're going to get you.

In baseball I was very singularly focused. If I was pitching it was me versus the hitter.

I've done literally everything there is to do on a baseball field as a pitcher.

I couldn't hit a home run to save my life, and I was a sucker for the curveball.

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

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

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.

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

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

I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice.

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

Any pitcher who might throw at me should know I'm not giving up my day job or trying to get anyone else's job. I just can't think of anything cooler than being one of the boys of summer!