Quotes from Trevor Bauer

The better I am, the better the team is, so you should want me to be selfish about how good I am.

I finally at some point in high school just decided that's what I was going to do. I was going to be true to myself.

I want to be the best. I don't know by what standard you measure being the best, but I want to go out there and perform and feel like I'm the best.

The professional game, in a lot of ways, sucks. It's not fun like 11-year-old baseball was or college baseball or high school baseball.

It's so important to grow our game that players share more of their lives than just on the field and that personalities can shine through.

From what I've read, Gen Z largely favors players over teams and that's one of the reasons it's so important to showcase MLB player personalities.

If anything, I hope to see more players feel comfortable speaking out and sharing their perspectives openly in the future. The game needs more of that in my opinion.

I'm not a loose cannon. If I'm wrong, I say so.

Cheating is one thing - it's not OK - but at least if you cheat and you come out and you get caught and you're like, 'Look, I did this and it wasn't right. This is why I did it. I'm not going to do it again, I learned my lesson.'

Personally, I think fans would rather watch a DH hit than a pitcher hit.

Zito was my favorite pitcher for a good long time, pretty much until Lincecum came into the league. Obviously, if you know Barry Zito, you know the big curveball. So that was kind of my inspiration for learning how to throw it. Tried to pattern that pitch off of him as much as possible.

If I didn't play baseball, I probably wouldn't play a sport because i'm not really that athletic. Baseball was the one sport I could nerd my way to the top.

Let everybody compete on a level playing field.

I really pride myself on not missing starts and being able to take the ball when it's my turn, I want to be able to do my job and take my turn. Especially in the playoffs.

The playoffs are a different animal, and any team can beat you on any day.

Performing well's always pleasing, especially when the team gets the win and you can help contribute to it.

I'm an intense competitor, and that fire is what drives me.

You always have to surround yourself with people that are more knowledgeable than you or are better at certain skill sets than you are, so they pull you up.

People get the wrong impression about me. They think I'm elitist or I'm conceited or whatever. But I'm a really good person. I take care of my friends and my family. I'm kindhearted. I'm a better person than a lot of people I'm surrounded by. I'll get chewed up for saying that, but it's true.

I grew up going to Dodger Stadium and I would look out there on the field with my dad and say, 'Man, those guys are superstars.' And they were. But they almost had this extraterrestrial feel to them, like it wasn't achievable. It wasn't a tangible goal because I didn't know anything about the players.

When the pressure is on, you're going to default back to how you've played your whole life and how you'd normally pitch.

I'm probably in the bottom 25 percent of athletes in the big leagues, just on pure athletic capability. But I've taught myself, through a lot of hard work and study and science, how to be really good at one specific thing.

Growth and maturation isn't celebrated or isn't talked about in society now. Is it possible that I was a bad teammate in 2012? Sure. Is it also possible that I'm a good teammate in 2019? Sure.

I like to try to learn from my past and be a better person because of it. Better player, better teammate. Better everything.