Quotes from Clayton Kershaw

There's a responsibility to the coaches, to the organization, to the front office, to the owners, to everybody who believes in you enough to give you what you've gotten, to the fans that show up every day and pay to watch you play - all those things combined. It's not fair to take a day off.

It's amazing to see where baseball can take you.

I don't turn off being a dad. It supersedes being a baseball player.

Bases loaded and nobody out is a pretty impossible situation.

You never want to be in a defensive mode or have a defensive mindset. You always want to know that you're in control as the pitcher, you make him get hits, you're never passive, always aggressive. If I get beat, I want it to be because I got rocked, got hit hard, never because I walked a couple of guys and before you know it.

What a blessing it is to throw a baseball for a living!

Your career goes fast, just a blink of an eye and you're an ex-baseball player, longer than you are a baseball player. I try not to think about it too much, but it seems like it does go fast.

The way I look at it, 29 teams fail every year and one team succeeds.

A line drive to the warning track on one pitch, I'll take that over a strikeout any day.

I don't know if money is something to really celebrate.

Things change. Routines change. Things have to change. But change doesn't mean less. It just means different.

God gave me an ability to throw a baseball. He chose me for a reason, and I want to honor Him with that.

Baseball is so performance-based. It's what have you done for me lately. I can get a lot of pressure and you can feel that, but if your life is given to God and your into Jesus there's really no pressure because at the end of the day your life is in His control and you surrender to that.

Anytime a pitcher hasn't faced a hitter, I feel the pitcher has the advantage. The more times the hitter sees somebody, the more the advantage goes to the hitter.

As a pitcher, you're supposed to succeed, and you're not supposed to give up a hit.

I'm a good hitter for a pitcher.

I watch all the pitchers I admire. I love watching Cliff Lee. It looks easy for him when he's on the mound; he's almost like an artist. He knows exactly how to get guys out.

All I really try to do is whatever hitter gets in there, I just try to get him out in as few pitches as possible.

When you're out there in the heat of the moment and you're pitching, and it's a big situation, you're saying 'Don't throw a ball, don't give up a hit, don't walk this guy.' But the harder you want to control something the more it gets out of your control.

The playoffs is ? I think I took it for granted a little bit. My first two years I kind of just thought that always happened, I guess.

Saying you're a Christian shouldn't turn people off. You should love people well and that's Jesus' first commandment!

You can't compare regular season to postseason.

As competitors, winning is what drives you.

You can't control the talents He gives you, no doubt about that. But you can control the effort you put forth with those talents.