Quotes from Gerrit Cole

Base runners in postseason games are kind of tough to deal with at times.

When you dream as a little kid, you dream about storybook endings and storybook players and scenarios like that.

The season is long. You go through aches and pains with your brothers. When it's on the line, you just want to give them - you know, you want to perform. You want to give them a shot to win the game.

I don't think I'm going to dwell on one pitch. You've got to be able to shake that off in the middle of the game.

You get into a situation where your back's up against the wall and you don't have any option but to go out swinging, so you might as well go for it.

Any opportunity to throw against the Cardinals is going to be a good one.

A lot of my friends at home call me 'Chef G.'

Verlander is a guy every right-handed power pitcher looks up to since the beginning of time.

You figure when you match up against other clubs and you go through the lineup one through nine, you get to the nine hole, if you can put together an at-bat or you can see some different pitches that helps give you an advantage competitively, it can make your lineup stronger.

If I'm not going to make the pitch, then so be it. I'm not going to try to manipulate the ball or muscle the ball over the plate where I want it to go.

Altuve is just so good at that. He can decide halfway to the plate where he's going to place the ball. I've never seen that kind of talent before in my life, and I don't know if I'll ever see it again.

You know in a playoff atmosphere anything can happen.

Every good team is going to have a good culture in the clubhouse.

I was hurt in 2016, and it made me look at longevity and sustainability. The stuff that I was doing wasn't working for me long term. So, I had to make a change.

I try to get early contact and keep it on the ground. I like to keep the ball down as much as I can.

You're always just so inspired to get in the game and try to contribute any way you can.

I've got to keep my pitch count down. If you want to go deep into ballgames, you have to stay under that 100 mark.

You can't find a bad count to throw a curveball.

Strikeouts are something that just happen. You don't go for strikeouts, because your pitch count gets too high. When you do get that opportunity, you have to put them away with whatever is working that day.

You've got to go out there and play your tail off every single day and at times during the year it can be tough to do that.

When they have the lead, you don't want to fall into too predictable counts because they're playing with house money at that point. You want to try to be creative and keep them off-balance as much as you can.

I think there's a quiet aggression that you need to have, that presence that you have on the mound, the poise, you know.

I try to show up and do my job and get my work in every day, keep pressing forward.

There's no WAR for being a good teammate, so apparently that means older guys can't get paid.