I don't know, I think everybody deals with nerves and adrenaline a little bit differently.
Clayton Kershaw
There's a lot of times that you got to put yourself out there to fail, you can't be afraid to fail.
Whatever God has given us, we are just the vessel for it.
We don't own anything that we have. It is all a gift from God and we are just trying to be good stewards of what He gives us.
All the individual stuff is great, but I just want to win a World Series.
Baseball is going to end some day. I realize that as soon as you retire you know, people forget about you in this game fast! There's the next young guy coming up that's always better than you. So, for me, it's just about using baseball as a platform to do a lot of things.
Things change. Routines change. Things have to change. But change doesn't mean less. It just means different.
No matter how long you play this game, you struggle and your confidence will go here and there at times.
I know I didn't deserve this, but God has given me this baseball ability. So I've got to do whatever I can to honor him.
I'm a big Taylor Swift fan. I really like her song 'Mean.'
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.
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.
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.
I don't turn off being a dad. It supersedes being a baseball player.
It's amazing to see where baseball can take you.
People make a big deal about celebrations and what's appropriate and what's not. But just talking with some veteran guys, I think anytime you get a chance to celebrate with your team, regardless if it's winning the division or winning a series, whatever it is, you take advantage of that.
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.
Just try to live in moment as much as you can each pitch, not worry about what happened after the past has happened.
Everyone talks about how hard it is to have a kid, and that scares you into waiting.
I'm not a big thinker. The less thinking the better.
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.
I don't know if money is something to really celebrate.
I've kind of found out that when I do get into trouble, that when I do have people on base, sometimes the best thing is to throw a little bit more off-speed, back off a little bit.
Regardless on winning the Cy Young, I have one goal that never changes, and that's to win every start.
Getting to say you're going to the World Series is a pretty special thing.
Bases loaded and nobody out is a pretty impossible situation.
Cali was a name I've always loved.
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.
Saying you're a Christian shouldn't turn people off. You should love people well and that's Jesus' first commandment!
I don't think I'm going to ever be the guy that gives soundbite after soundbite. If somebody has a question, I'll answer it. But if they don't, I don't have anything to say, really.
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.
Yeah, my faith is very important to me.
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.
Baseball is just a game, obviously, but it means a lot to a lot of different people.
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.
I think first and foremost when you look at every other religion all over the world - its works based - you have to earn your way to the Kingdom. With Jesus, it's so different because we didn't do anything to deserve Him. He literally died for us and saved us! There's nothing else like that in the world. There is no other God like that!
If you're playing baseball, why are you playing baseball? Is it to have success on the field and be a Hall-of-Famer or whatever it is? Sure, that's everyone's goal. But then what? For me, it's about the legacy you leave off the field.
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.
I started really believing and understanding what it meant to be a follower of Jesus when I was probably in high school sometime. From there, just trying to draw on my faith since then.
Yeah, strikeouts just kind of happen. It's not something I'm trying to do, I'm just trying to get outs as fast as possible.
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.
I don't really watch video of myself. Yeah, I don't really - I never really have.
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.
It's just Lord be with me... Winning and losing isn't the most important thing. He's not worried about the outcome of the game. He's worried about how I reflect Him and how I'm pitching... I think every time you pitch and every time you go on the mound you have to understand that it's for Him.
Watching guys win the World Series looks like a lot of fun. I'd kind of like to do that.
When you're a kid, you just hope you make it to the big leagues. So to get to go say you're going to play in the World Series, it's an incredibly special moment. Up there with getting married and having kids, it's right up there with one of the best days of my life.
I was given a gift to throw a baseball. I didn't do anything to deserve that.
On a day I start, I have a turkey sandwich for lunch. I don't consider it a ritual, but I'm anxious on those days.
The more you try to grip control of your life the more God's gonna untangle that from you. He's going to make things go where you have to rely on Him.
It's just amazing the providence God had in my life. God was there the whole time, I just didn't bother to look.
