Yu Darvish Quotes

Strikeouts are part of my game.

For me, it's just going up on the mound and trying to get outs.

No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball.

Any pitcher who might throw at me should know I'm not giving up my day job or trying to get anyone else's job. I just can't think of anything cooler than being one of the boys of summer!

The pitcher setting up the batter. It's chess, and you play with it.

Striking out batters was easy.

A pitcher has to look at the hitter as his mortal enemy.

There are some great pitchers in this league. You're going to get fooled sometimes. They're going to get you.

In baseball I was very singularly focused. If I was pitching it was me versus the hitter.

You fool around with different pitches playing catch, but it's not the same when you've got to face some guy with a bat in his hand.

Pitching is a priority.

Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.

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

Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball.

Hideki Irabu had a very good curveball. Just a straight up and down, swing-and-miss curveball.

Show me a guy who can't pitch inside and I'll show you a loser.

Nolan Ryan is pitching much better now that he has his curve ball straightened out.

Lefty Grove could throw a lamb chop past a wolf.

Hitters never showed me up, as hard as I threw. And I was pretty mean out on the mound.

Balls and strikes are the basic tenet to everything in baseball. From the perspective of hitting, pitching, offense and defense, it's all about the strike zone and how the battle is waged there between the pitcher and hitter.

I love to pitch so much.

Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world.

I could throw pretty hard. I might strike out 16 guys, but I might walk 10. I mean, I was wild.

I faced Gibson many times and faced Sandy Koufax three times.

Baseball player. Yeah, that was my dream before acting, or alongside acting.