Curveball Quotes

This is the biggest one they make, too. I fouled a changeup off the pad, and then a curveball catches me on the shin.

There`s going to be times you`re going to erratic with your fastball, times when the curveball is not going to be there,

I couldn`t get my curveball for a strike. They were able to wait for the fastball. I put them in a situation where they were able to capitalize.

I was keeping everything in. I still had the fastball I could throw him (outside). I hadn`t shown him the curveball the whole at-bat. (A count of) 2-2 was the time to do it.

I hadn`t thrown him a curveball in the at-bat. I had thrown him fastballs and cutters.

I was still able to throw my slider, change-up, curveball. But my location was terrible. I was making too many mistakes over the middle of the plate.

He has electric stuff. Having electric stuff is one thing, but he knows how to use it. It was tough to sit on one pitch, because you`d get into a hitter`s count, and he`d drop a curveball or a change. And he`s throwing fastballs 97, 98, 99 with pretty amazing run to it. That`s as good a stuff as we`ve seen all year.

He`s without a doubt the No. 1 male in my life, ... I was a longtime minor leaguer going nowhere. I could do a lot of things like run, throw and field, but I was afraid of the curveball. ... He made me a switch-hitter.

That was filthy. Of all the lefties I`ve faced this year, that`s the best curveball I`ve seen.

People are always talking about momentum, but I don`t believe in momentum. Momentum changes with one hanging curveball. That`s the thing about baseball. It`s the one sport where you really, really just never know. The guy you least expect gets into the postseason, hits .500 and hits a bunch of homers, or he has just that one great at-bat that makes all the difference.

There`s going to be times you`re going to erratic with your fastball, times when the curveball is not going to be there,

I just had command of three pitches. My secondary pitches, like the curveball and change-up, I threw for strikes.

As visual metaphors go, it was a lavishly gilded lily of an image, a hanging curveball across the plate, a George Tenet-style slam-dunk: A weary President Bush, trying to escape a news conference in Beijing on Sunday, strides away from the microphone to a pair of locked doors, which he pulls and tugs in vain. No exit, the image screamed. No way out. Of course, George Bush will inevitably get out of the mess he has made -- he leaves office in three years and two months, not that anyone`s counting. But the rest of us will be left with his handiwork: crushing national debt, rising economic inequality, a poisoned political atmosphere and, oh, yes, the war in Iraq. We`re the ones trapped in the dark with no exit sign in sight.

He threw well. Was ahead in the count most of the night. He had good movement on his fastball and his curveball was effective this evening as well.