Quotes from Clayton Kershaw

Sandy Koufax is a great teacher. He just talks about competitiveness and being aggressive - about stride length, power, how to spin the breaking ball. The way he explains pitching is simple, which is something you don't see a lot.

Everyone talks about how hard it is to have a kid, and that scares you into waiting.

I'm a big Taylor Swift fan. I really like her song 'Mean.'

I get paid a bunch of money to do this, and so there's a responsibility to my teammates, every single day, to show up and be the absolute best you can be.

My goal is to win just for the teammates and the guys in our room.

I've got an air mattress for a bed...really living the high life.

Whatever God has given us, we are just the vessel for it.

You are not supposed to convert anybody, that's God's job. But at the same time, you can be His disciple and live for Him and when people ask you why are you living for Him, you can show them why and profess your faith.

Baseball is just a game, obviously, but it means a lot to a lot of different people.

There's a lot of times that you got to put yourself out there to fail, you can't be afraid to fail.

I firmly believe that you are supposed to love everybody. That is God's one boldest commandment.

It's just amazing the providence God had in my life. God was there the whole time, I just didn't bother to look.

Hitting's the hardest thing to do in sports.

At the end of the day that's why I play the game, to glorify Him in everything I do and to compete for Him.

The goal is always a complete game.

If we have a good day and we win, I'll celebrate and enjoy it. If I have a bad day and I lose, I'll be disappointed and then come back the next day and think about the next team.

You can make a lot of cases that you can take the win stat out of the game and you can still figure out who the good pitchers are, and I agree with that to some extent. But there's something about your win-loss record, there's something about having wins by your name that means something. Regardless of how important that is.

You can't have your bullpen throwing three or four innings every night. Just not fair to them.

My changeup needs to be better. Until I feel comfortable throwing that pitch - or any pitch - in any count, I've got stuff to work on.

I think more than anything, just putting in perspective what this baseball thing means and understanding that it is a gift and I didn't do anything to deserve that and realizing that if we continue to look to God to guide our path, you never know what could happen.

When you win the Cy Young, it's like, well, you're a baseball player, that's what you're supposed to do. When you win the Clemente Award, you don't do it to get recognized for your work, but it means so much more than baseball.

Jesus is the only true way to Heaven.

Regardless on winning the Cy Young, I have one goal that never changes, and that's to win every start.

Any time first time out, you just want to make sure you can get hitters out again.