Knuckleballs Quotes

Throwing a knuckleball for a strike is like throwing a butterfly with hiccups across the street into your neighbor's mailbox.

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.

It's (Phil Niekro's knuckleball) like watching Mario Andretti park a car.

You know, catching the knuckleball, it's like trying to catch a fly with a chopstick.

The #‎ knuckleball can be a metaphor of what it's like to let go.

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.

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.?

You don't catch the knuckleball, you defend against it.

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.

I couldn't throw a knuckleball if my life depended on it.

Look for the seams (on a knuckleball) and then hit in-between them.