Quotes from Jake Arrieta

If I have to leave, I don't want to leave without another ring.

I was in Baltimore in 2012 and 2013.

People had lost faith in me in Baltimore, and rightfully so. I knew that was not the guy I was.

You want to be paid in respect to how your peers are paid.

I let previous instances creep up in my thought process sometimes. I think that's where things go awry, and that's where the walks come in. I'm not giving up many hits, just putting them on base for free.

You feel everybody has your best interests in mind, but you come to find out that's not necessarily the case.

I don't think I've ever been as humbled as I have been in Pilates. It's incredible how much body control and how much isolated strength you have to have to complete these movements successfully.

I've always been in good shape. I just sucked early in my career from a statistical perspective.

I don't like to see any sucker punches. I do think, in the heat of battle, if you're getting hit on the hip with 98, then you should be able to go out and see somebody.

I'd like to stay in Chicago, but if they don't want me, somebody will.

I've made it clear I like Chicago.

When it comes up with my age, I'm like, let's just end the conversation there. That's irrelevant to me. I'll pitch until I'm 40.

There's not many guys that can pitch at the top of the rotation floating around the league.

Look at all of the pitchers getting six- and seven-year deals at 30, 31, and 32. You see what's going on and the money that's out there. You'd be a fool not to try to benefit from that, or at least try to get what you feel you're worth.

Once I get completely right mechanically and with command, maybe I only use two or three pitches to get through seven innings.

I trust how much my ball moves. I can throw it at you or this far off the plate and have it end up on the black. That's where I kind of went to the next level. I knew what all my pitches were doing. Even in '14, I didn't have that ability.

You play your surroundings. You pitch accordingly. Not that I drastically try to change my game plan based on the score or the team or stadium, but you have to take everything into consideration.

Everybody here has the ability to throw a fastball down and away or throw a breaking ball in the dirt for a swing and a miss. But are we able to stay in that moment and understand what we're trying to accomplish and see it in our mind before we execute and then make the pitch?

Sports psychology or mental training has been viewed as a weakness, and I think that's a pretty silly way to look at it.

That's one the main reasons we live in Austin. The weather is so nice for the majority of the offseason, and it's easy for us to get out and ride bikes and get on some trails, to walk together as a family. Sometimes I'll go out for a trail run. We just like to do things outdoors.

As a kid, you put yourself in those positions. Bases loaded, two outs, you're at the plate. That's kind of the way I envision it as a kid playing whiffle ball or whatever the case was.

You really want to try to continue to pile up outs as often as you possibly can. Whether they get a hit or not really doesn't affect the way you continue to approach that lineup, especially with a five-run lead.

I could be 30 pounds heavier if I played football. But I play baseball, and I do Pilates.

The contract stuff will work itself out. If we keep winning, those kinds of things all work themselves out in time.