Changeup Quotes

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.

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

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.

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

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

I'm a breaking-ball pitcher.

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!

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

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.

I never faced a pitcher with better stuff than Nolan Ryan.

The pitcher setting up the batter. It's chess, and you play with it.

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

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

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.

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

In baseball, I was a pitcher, which I hated because there was no action there.

If you can't see the rotation and tell if it's a sink - a fastball, then you have to be able to tell whether that fastball is a two-seamer or a four-seamer. You have to be able to recognize if it's a slider or a curveball. You have to be able to recognize if it's a changeup or a split-finger.

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

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

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

I'm a fly-ball pitcher, guys.

The big thing I noticed from High-A to Double-A is that when you have an advantage count as a hitter, you're not going to get as many fastballs. Adjusting to the 2-0 changeup, that 3-1 off-speed pitch - things like that. I think my swing can stay the same; I just was getting myself out.

Nolan Ryan is pitching much better now that he has his curve ball straightened out.

My changeup looks like a fastball, but one goes straight and the other goes away from the righthanded hitter. Sometimes it cuts by itself, and I don't know where it's going.