Top 88 Quotes & Sayings by Gerrit Cole - Page 2

The most rewarding thing to me is going deep into games, knowing you stood up, and did your job.

I've just got to keep doing what I'm doing, because from all the compliments I've received so far, it sounds like I'm on the right track.

When you start lifting weights in the offseason in like November, you're like, 'Ah, I'm going to get this thing up so I can get to the World Series.'

I've got to keep my pitch count down. If you want to go deep into ballgames, you have to stay under that 100 mark.

There's no WAR for being a good teammate, so apparently that means older guys can't get paid.

Regardless if your career is short or long, I personally would rather win more often than not.

I tremendously value wins.

You can't find a bad count to throw a curveball.

You never want to have Yadier Molina up with the bases loaded in the World Series, but, dammit, you wouldn't want a better hitter up. Maybe that's not the way most people think, I don't know. That's how I think.

If I'm not going to make the pitch, then so be it. I'm not going to try to manipulate the ball or muscle the ball over the plate where I want it to go.

Strikeouts are something that just happen. You don't go for strikeouts, because your pitch count gets too high. When you do get that opportunity, you have to put them away with whatever is working that day.

I was hurt in 2016, and it made me look at longevity and sustainability. The stuff that I was doing wasn't working for me long term. So, I had to make a change.

I was sooo skinny.

David Price comes and finds me out in the lobby and says, 'Dude, I really enjoy watching you pitch.' I'm just like, 'What's wrong with you? Watch your own games, bro. I just throw fastballs inside. You're painting all over the place, striking the world out.'

I try to get early contact and keep it on the ground. I like to keep the ball down as much as I can.

There's a lot of different aspects of the game that I've fine-tuned.

You never want to be in a bases-loaded, no-outs position, but dammit, when you're there, you better enjoy it. You better not sit there and sulk about it. You better rise up and figure it out.

You have more of an opportunity than people think to impact a game through the tone that you can set. You can't control everything, setting that tone is important.

Being able to taste failure, it makes you kind of want to throw up. It makes you just hate the game.

When you dream as a little kid, you dream about storybook endings and storybook players and scenarios like that.

I always wanted to play with the older kids because they were better and it was more fun. It was harder, and I failed more, but it was more fun.

Every start is an opportunity to get better and to learn how your body is feeling and what you need to do moving forward. It's been an evolution throughout the year.

There's a lot of pageantry involved in opening day, flyovers, extra long TV breaks and stuff. To say that it's not important, more so than some other ones, it is. It's the first game of the year. but I got 30 starts to make. Each win or loss is equally as important.

I had a great time at school. The experience was quite fulfilling, especially going to the World Series.

I just go out and do my job.

We definitely like to celebrate the wins, that's for sure.

My job is to go out there and just, with whatever I got that day, just give my team the best chance to win.

This is a game of failure, for the most part.