Knuckleball Quotes

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

We had to adjust and threw a few more rise balls and curves but it worked.

I remember going to see my dad pitch against other coal-mining teams, and he was successful with the knuckleball. I saw how bad guys would look like swinging, and how guys talked about how he could throw every day and didn't hurt his arm. That's how I grew up learning.

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

My dad played for a coal-mining team in eastern Ohio; he was a very good pitcher. If he hadn't hurt his arm, he probably would have got a shot somewhere. He hurt his arm one spring, didn't warm up good enough, couldn't throw a fastball anymore. Another coal miner taught him how to throw the knuckleball.

Ball parks are smaller and baseballs are livelier. They've practically got pitchers wearing straitjackets. Bah! They still allow the knuckleball, and that is three times as hard to control.

[A knuckleball is] a curve ball that doesn't give a damn.

Got any pitches? I got five pitches-rise-ball, curveball, screwball, drop-ball and changeup.

He (Hoyt Wilhelm) had the best knuckleball you'd ever want to see. He knew where it was going when he threw it, but when he got two strikes on you, he'd break out one that even he didn't know where it was going.

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.

It's (Phil Niekro's knuckleball) like watching Mario Andretti park a car.

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

There aren't many hitters who like facing knuckleball pitchers. They may not be intimidated by them, but they sure are thinking about them before they go into the box.

There are two theories on hitting the knuckleball. Unfortunately, neither of them works.

There's very few pitching coaches that I worked with that actually came out on the mound and told me what I was doing wrong with the knuckleball. Because they just didn't know. So I had to figure it out. I was on my own.

I lost the good stuff on my fastball. I had to come up with something to keep me in the league. The knuckler rescued me then.