Most pitchers fear losing their fastball and, since I don't have one, the only thing I have to fear is fear itself.
When they operated, I told them to put in a Koufax fastball. They did-but it was Mrs. Koufax's.
The three most important pitches I threw in my life were all fastballs.
The good rising fastball is the best pitch in baseball.
Once (Stan) Musial timed your fastball, your infielders were in jeopardy.
At 19, I was still figuring out how to throw a fastball.
I trust that I can hit a fastball, that I can hit any pitch they throw to me.
Death ain't nothing but a fastball on the outside corner.
You've got to be ready for the fastball.
I will send a fastball into the cyber hole.
Later, I could take something off my slider and I could make my fastball sink, so I really had four pitches.
Once the record was mine, I had to use it like a Louisville Slugger. I believed, and still do, that there was a reason why I was chosen to break the record. I feel it's my task to carry on where Jackie Robinson left off, and I only know of one way to go about it. It's the only way I've ever had of dealing with things like fastballs and bigotry -- keep swinging at them.
I throw my curveball like Clayton Kershaw and my fastball like Mo'ne Davis.
