Everybody wants to know, 'How do you throw a curveball, how do you throw a slider, how do you throw this and that,' when they can't even locate a fastball. Learn how to control your fastball and then once you've got that, move on to other things.
Life throws some curveballs at you and you go where it takes you.
Back in the day when I played, a pitcher had 3 pitches: a fastball, a curveball, a slider, a changeup and a good sinker pitch.
I never knew how to throw a fastball, never learned how to throw a curveball, a slider, split-finger, whatever they're throwing nowadays. I was a one-pitch pitcher.
Got any pitches? I got five pitches-rise-ball, curveball, screwball, drop-ball and changeup.
I think life throws enough curveballs that you shouldn't make such a big deal out of everything.
I throw my curveball like Clayton Kershaw and my fastball like Mo'ne Davis.
Sometimes if you want to achieve something great, there will be curveballs. You just have to dodge them every once in a while.
When the catcher throws down a curveball, I'm like, 'Okay, I can definitely do that. ' If I miss with it, I'm still ready to throw it again.
I'm always very excited by something that's a curveball or from left field.
The writers are very good about misdirection and changeups, and that's what's great about it. We always think we know what's going to happen and then they throw a curveball that you don't see coming.
Those curveballs are always coming-eventually, you learn to hit some of them.
