Pitching Technique Quotes

Cleaning up that lack of the definition between the two, and then leaning on the four-seam, having it become my primary fastball over my two-seam, it's just benefited me as a whole.

Strikeouts are something that just happen. You don't go for strikeouts, because your pitch count gets too high. When you do get that opportunity, you have to put them away with whatever is working that day.

The three most important pitches I threw in my life were all fastballs.

When you're spinning a two-seam, getting on the side of the ball to get more run or sink can be good, but it can really be detrimental to your four-seam.

I only know one way to pitch. I really do.

My pitching philosophy is simple. I believe in getting the ball over the plate and not walking a lot of men.

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

Trying to hit Sandy Koufax was like trying to drink coffee with a fork.

Natural grass is a wonderful thing for little bugs and sinkerball pitchers.

I use high velocity to keep hitters off balance.

Hold a baseball in your hand ... Feel the ball, turn it over in your hand; hold it across the seam or the other way, with the seam just to the side of your middle finger. Speculation stirs. You want to get outdoors and throw this spare and sensual object to somebody or, at the very least, watch somebody else throw it. The game has begun.

I'm a breaking-ball pitcher.

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.

What you can never do on a slow pitch is bowl with any width. If you bowl straight it's almost impossible to get the ball away.

Greg Maddux is probably the best pitcher in all of baseball along with Roger Clemens. He's much more intelligent than I am because he doesn't have a 95 or 98 mph fastball. I would tell any pitcher who wants to be successful to watch him, because he's the true definition of a pitcher.

I challenge anyone, even with a radar machine, to hit that slider.

I always tried to watch the pitcher and his complete windup from the moment he had the ball in his glove all the way through his motion, and tried to follow it all the way out of his hand, all the way to home plate.

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.

Gentlemen, for the first 60 feet that was a hell of a pitch.

I could probably throw harder if I wanted, but why? When they're in a jam, a lot of pitchers...try to throw harder. Me, I try to locate better.

Those curveballs are always coming-eventually, you learn to hit some of them.

I'll get in that habit of throwing the ball over the plate too much. You want to keep it going, get those guys back into the dugout. But it's not a good thing when you're over more than a third of the plate.

In my bullpen sessions, I'm just trying to feel comfortable, throw strikes, and not get too complicated.

I have no idea what I did. I heard people talk about dead leg, shake, change of pace and all that, but I did things without thinking about them.

Turner was like a pencil. He bent around that pitch!