quotes about Knuckleballs
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The way to catch a knuckleball is to wait until it stops rolling and then pick it up.
-- Bob UeckerSource : Bill Schroeder, Drew Olson, Craig Counsell, Bob Uecker (2016). “If These Walls Could Talk: Milwaukee Brewers: Stories from the Milwaukee Brewers Dugout, Locker Room, and Press Box”, p.45, Triumph Books
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He (Hoyt Wilhelm) had the best knuckleball you'd ever want to see. He knew where it was going when he threw it, but when he got two strikes on you, he'd break out one that even he didn't know where it was going.
-- Brooks Robinson -
I couldn't throw a knuckleball if my life depended on it.
-- Gio GonzalezSource : "Answer Man: Gio Gonzalez talks getting traded, Cy Young, Strasburg shutdown and the Chevy Geo". Interview with David Brown, www.yahoo.com. October 6, 2012.
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Look for the seams (on a knuckleball) and then hit in-between them.
-- Harmon KillebrewSource : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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You know, catching the knuckleball, it's like trying to catch a fly with a chopstick.
-- Jason Varitek -
There aren't many hitters who like facing knuckleball pitchers. They may not be intimidated by them, but they sure are thinking about them before they go into the box.
-- Phil Niekro -
The #‎ knuckleball can be a metaphor of what it's like to let go.
-- R.A. Dickey -
It's (Phil Niekro's knuckleball) like watching Mario Andretti park a car.
-- Ralph Kiner -
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Throwing a knuckleball for a strike is like throwing a butterfly with hiccups across the street into your neighbor's mailbox.
-- Willie Stargell -
The # knuckleball can be a metaphor of what it's like to let go.
-- R.A. Dickey -
I don't really feel much more confident than I did the last couple years. I've always felt like I have a pretty good knuckleball. I worked hard to do that.?
-- R.A. Dickey -
Like some cult religion that barely survives, there has always been at least one but rarely more than five or six devotees throwing the knuckleball in the big leagues . . . Not only can't pitchers control it, hitters can't hit it, catchers can't catch it, coaches can't coach it and most pitchers can't learn it. The perfect pitch.
-- Ron Luciano -