Top 102 Quotes & Sayings by Max Scherzer - Page 2

I take a great deal of pride in pitching deep into ballgames.

I don't worry about infield shifts at all - you play where you're gonna play. I'm just gonna pitch my game.

The game can come down to one pitch. But when you're actually out there on the mound and when you're pitching, you can't be worrying about the margin of error or whatnot. You have to go with your strengths and what you believe is the right pitch and keep executing pitches.

I've got a high-school swing. I know that. But you know what? It's good enough to get a ball in play.

Being in the clubhouse, talking to the veterans, talking to guys who have been here, getting to know everybody, getting the personalities, you can actually learn a lot from the other players in the league.

There's so much information now, and that even goes down to the college game. You have so much video, you can watch every YouTube video of guys and mechanics, and so I just feel like the younger generation's more educated than ever before.

When you look at starting pitchers, once they make it through year four, then - knock on wood - you see a lot of injury risk go down.

When there's too many teams that are not trying to win, that poisons the game, poisons the fan experience, and it creates bandwagon fans.

I relish pitching underneath pressure.

I'm looking to generate strikeouts in every way I can.

When I was 18, graduating high school, I was going to the University of Missouri.

I'm not throwing a no-hitter Opening Day. It's just not going to happen.

I never want the ball above my shoulders until I'm really firing. I feel like I can generate more velocity with my arm path. The way my arm works, there's so many benefits to it - from a health standpoint, as well.

I think every facet of running has its benefits towards a starting pitcher. I mean, you're explosive off the mound and yet you've got to have endurance.

All of the off-field stuff, I can promise you, it doesn't even register with me.

Look, the umpires behind the plate? They're human. They're doing the best they can to try to call balls and strikes. I understand that there's a lot of calls that kinda are 50-50. They can go either way. And as a starting pitcher, you try to manage, 'Alright, if you didn't get that call, maybe you'll get it again here a few innings later.'

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.

Perfectionist is sometimes the wrong word... It means like you're never satisfied, or you're upset by every single failure - any type of failure. And so for me, I don't look at failure as necessarily a bad thing as long as I'm able to learn from it and take something from it, so that next time I'm in that situation I know how to succeed.

Sometimes you have to look at a start and say, 'Nothing is wrong.' Even when you get lit up, you still have to say 'Nothing is wrong.'

I've had a better 2017 than I've had 2016, just like a better '16 than '15 and '14.

You have to find a way to improve yourself.

You have to look back on everything that you've done and critique yourself and find the holes in your game that you can continue to get better.

I know when I get to 0-2, 1-2, when I'm ahead in the count, that I hold a distinct advantage over every single hitter. I have so many options because I don't have to work within the strike zone anymore.

Your pitches have to be sharp every time out.

There's more to pitching than just striking guys out, but also it is a big reason why you can have success.

You can't get too caught up in trying to pitch a complete game, because that's hard to do.

I'm not worried about good numbers or bad numbers. You worry about the process.

Any time I've put extra work in, I see results.

Having a pitch clock, if you have ball-strike implications, that's messing with the fabric of the game. There's no clock in baseball, and there's no clock in baseball for a reason.

You want to create the fans that are following the team year in, year out.

For me, it's all about winning.

Any type of discomfort is going to alter the way I throw the ball. If I alter the way I throw the ball, I run the risk of major injury to my arm.

I don't know what my record's going to be. I can't dictate it. I mean, obviously I have to pitch well, but it also takes the guys at the plate to show up as well.

Strikeouts are important. Anytime you can generate an out without the ball being put in play, there's nothing that can be done in those situations.

Every single pitcher is making changes every single start. You can talk to any pitcher about this.

If you look at it long-term, I think eventually there will be a DH in the National League.

When Jim Leyland calls - and I have so much respect for Jim Leyland - when he asked me to play, you don't say no.

You worry about how you're throwing the ball, how you're executing your pitches.

If you're constantly just trying to go in this win-loss cycle that MLB is pushing, you are creating bandwagon fans, and that's not the type of fans you want to create.

I'm trying to make sure that I get to my 0-2, 1-2 counts. That's really how I would rather phrase it: I'm trying to make sure that I can drive the count into my favor.

Social media is dangerous for baseball players. Things can get taken out of context so fast. You can say something you don't want to say. It's dangerous.

I'm aware of the luck in [BABIP], but at the same time, you can't directly influence it. You can just keep mixing your patterns, executing and locating, That's the human element of this game.