Stephen Strasburg Quotes

I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it.

I was born to hit a baseball. I can hit a baseball.

Is my strike zone bigger than others? Yeah. It might be bigger than others, but I don't have a problem with it.

AT&T Park, chalk it up. This is a great pitcher's park, great weather. It's a great place to pitch. It's all positive and no negative. You can go out and challenge guys. I've got the confidence to attack the strike zone and not nibble so much.

I've refined my mechanics, refined my pitches. I've gotten more confidence, and I've gotten more determination. I've got a better idea what I'm doing out there.

You're just trying to throw the best pitch you can and make sure you hit your spots. I don't have to force nobody.

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

I looked for the same pitch my whole career, a breaking ball. All of the time. I never worried about the fastball. They couldn't throw it past me, none of them.

I don't need to practice my swing. I grew up with a bat in my hands.

Pitch me outside, I will hit .400. Pitch me inside, and you will not find the ball.

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.

A great hitter isn't born, he's made. He's made out of practice, fault correction, and confidence.

I feel like every role that you take there's a part of you that obviously feels like you can do it. I don't know if perfect is the right word because I don't believe in perfection and I don't think it exists but I think striving to do something well is in every single part.

To get hwat you want out of life, all you really need to do is be honest about it, don't be afraid to go for it, and have fun while you do it -- and you'll eventually get it.

Pitch within yourself.

Failure has a thousand explanations. Success doesn't need one.

No one will ever be as good at being you as you. So start there. Perfect is boring.

As a man I am flawed, but my music is perfect.

Nothing needs to be perfect to be good, and no one should need to feel perfect to feel right

You do not need to be different from who you are. You only need to be more of the person you already are.

I don't really know how many pitches I threw. It's kind of what I usually do in a bullpen, minus about, I had a plan out there. I knew what I was going to do warming up and I did it. I actually felt pretty good.

I'm losing myself trying to compete With everyone else instead of just being me Don't know where to turn I've been stuck in this routine I need to change my ways Instead of always being weak I don't wanna be afraid I wanna wake up feeling beautiful today And know that I'm okay 'Cause everyone's perfect in unusual ways You see, I just wanna believe in me

Yo, you don't need nobody to represent you. You represent you. You represent the best version of who you could be. You go out there and change the world.

...I need a boyfriend. And to get a boyfriend, you have to look good. Doesn’t hurt to smell good too.

Because I have so much life on my pitches, I can get away with getting too much of the plate every now and then.