Top 115 Quotes & Sayings by Clayton Kershaw
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Last updated on September 17, 2024.
It's an uncomfortable thing to talk about myself, in general.
A line drive to the warning track on one pitch, I'll take that over a strikeout any day.
I'm a big sports fan even outside of baseball. I love watching guys that are supposed to be great, and are great, live up to the expectations. So I really appreciate consistency.
Baseball could end tomorrow but you're just understanding that God is in control of it and we are not.
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.
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 love baseball. I have a huge passion to play the game.
Winning the World Series is really all that we play this game for.
Who knows how many times I'm going to get to go to the World Series? I know more than anybody how hard it is to get there.
Jesus is the only true way to Heaven.
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.
If I can make a kid smile playing baseball, that's pretty awesome.
I hate watching myself on video. I don't ever do it. I'm just too hard on myself, and I always go away feeling like, Wow, I've got a ton to work on.
If I don't go 200 innings, it's been a tough year.
The way I look at it, 29 teams fail every year and one team succeeds.
Things change. Routines change. Things have to change. But change doesn't mean less. It just means different.
What a blessing it is to throw a baseball for a living!
Saying you're a Christian shouldn't turn people off. You should love people well and that's Jesus' first commandment!
The Steph Currys, the Jordan Spieths, those guys are exciting to watch.
I don't turn off being a dad. It supersedes being a baseball player.
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.
There's a lot of times that you got to put yourself out there to fail, you can't be afraid to fail.
I'm not a big thinker. The less thinking the better.
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.
I'm a good hitter for a pitcher.
It's just amazing the providence God had in my life. God was there the whole time, I just didn't bother to look.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Any time first time out, you just want to make sure you can get hitters out again.
It's amazing to see where baseball can take you.
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.
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.
Everyone talks about how hard it is to have a kid, and that scares you into waiting.
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 don't care how you get the outs. It doesn't matter to me how bad it looks, how good it looks, how many strikeouts you have. None of that stuff matters as long as you get the outs.
My goal is to win just for the teammates and the guys in our room.
I don't know if money is something to really celebrate.
I take a little pride in my diaper-changing, actually.
As competitors, winning is what drives you.
Cali was a name I've always loved.
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.
God gave me an ability to throw a baseball. He chose me for a reason, and I want to honor Him with that.
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.
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.
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!
All the individual stuff is great, but I just want to win a World Series.
I grew up a Dodger and got drafted by the Dodgers.
I love L.A. I love being out here.
Baseball is so hard as it is. For me, if you simplify it, it takes a little bit of the weight off, rather than trying to figure out all these other things. It's just peace of mind.
I was given a gift to throw a baseball. I didn't do anything to deserve that.
It's always great to do something to impact kids in sports.
There's a lot of variables you can't control in trying to win a game, but at the end of the day it does mean something to win a game in the big leagues and be on the mound.
Whatever God has given us, we are just the vessel for it.
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.
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.
I'm not trying to strike everybody out.
I don't really judge myself, I guess. I don't really judge other players.
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