Quotes About Focus

There's nothing like being a pitcher on the mound. You're by yourself. Ever since I was a little kid watching Pedro Martinez do it, night in and night out. I've always loved it.

I want to be the best pitcher in the world.

Sometimes pitchers' duels are just as interesting as home-run affairs.

Give me 10 high school pitchers, let me spend a week with them, and I'll show you 10 pitchers who won't balk. It's not that difficult, and they better learn it.

Control what I can control. Study the pitchers, work hard, put the work in. That's all I can control.

You have to play defense for the pitchers.

You're just trying to go out there and give seven innings. Seven innings, 105 pitches, that's a good outing.

I watched a little bit of Altuve - how he hits, the pitches that he hits.

Any time you can go out there and throw 12 pitches in any inning, you give your team some momentum coming in and get some confidence out on the mound.

My pitch count as a general rule was 135. And I knew how many pitches I had when I went to the mound for the last three innings.

You still have to pitch the same game, execute your pitches as best you can. If the shadows end up helping you out, then great, but you can't really worry about that stuff.

It's having the confidence to go out there and say, 'You know what? I need to go out there and throw those pitches where I need to throw them,' and make it as simple as that.

Your pitches have to be sharp every time out.

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.

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.

Sometimes you don't have your best stuff every day. You've just got to go out there and try to make pitches.

Mental attitude and concentration are the keys to pitching.

Baseball is all about pitching, and we know we have to improve our pitching.

The advanced stats are great to look at for my long-term goals and what I'm trying to accomplish. It shows me there is an inherent failure in pitching. The luck involved, the factors you can't control. You just have to let go of those and focus on the next batter, the next game.

I knew I would always be an artist, but when you move to Nashville, this is a writer's town. I moved here to focus on that and started pitching demos and immediately was asked to be an artist.

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.

I listen to Zedd or Tiesto. I like listening to that type of music before I'm pitching.

My dad was probably the first to tell me - I remember pitching when I was 7 or 8, and he told me he didn't want the other team to know whether I was having a great game or a bad game. And that's something that always stuck with me.

When I go out there, I have no pity on my brother. I'm out there to win.