I was short with my fastball and breaking ball.
Give me 10 high school pitchers, let me spend a week with them, and I'll show you 10 pitchers who won't balk. It's not that difficult, and they better learn it.
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.
I've got some good movement on my sinking fastball, and I rely on that.
If you want to bowl a yorker, you have to land it; if you want to bowl a bouncer you have to be on the money.
Because I have so much life on my pitches, I can get away with getting too much of the plate every now and then.
The reason I quit being a sales manager over twenty years now is because I hate elevator pitches. I want to write stories and show people what's in them when they read them, not tell them all about it ahead of time.
Even if I was tipping my pitches, I could have thrown pitches good enough to not be hit.
My manager said it would more effective against left-handed hitters. It seemed to me that was impossible to do without the high leg kick, which I started that day.
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 want to focus more on my pitches, not on the tempo. After that, I felt more comfortable.
