Jake Arrieta Quotes

If I can execute pitches and keep the ball out of the middle of the plate, I know I can have success.

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

Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move.

The big thing will be having two pitches you can throw for strikes and developing a change-up, too.

There's got to be a fine line where I can find I'm still throwing the ball how I usually throw it, but it's able to dive down after a certain height and get to the guy.

Everybody here has the ability to throw a fastball down and away or throw a breaking ball in the dirt for a swing and a miss. But are we able to stay in that moment and understand what we're trying to accomplish and see it in our mind before we execute and then make the pitch?

I'm pretty proud of my fastball. I can throw a screwball. It's not as accurate, and I don't have the velocity like I do with my fastball, but I think my fastball is not too shabby.

You continue to try to hammer out fastball command the best you can.

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

I'm not used to seeing the ball go wherever she wants. As a pitcher, I like to be - I don't want to say perfect, but I want to know what the ball is going to do.

The reason I think I'm a good pitcher is I locate my fastball and I change speeds. Period. That's what you do to pitch. That's what pitchers have to do to win games.

If you talk to any pitcher, consistency is the most important thing.

You got the ball in your hands and you're in command, and if you get your good pitch where you want it, nobody's gonna hit you.

Can I throw harder than Joe Wood? Listen mister, no man alive can throw any harder than Smokey Joe Wood.

In baseball, I was always in control of everything until I let the ball go.

I'm not executing my pitches. I'm not commanding my fastball, and I get behind in the count. When I try to throw strikes, I'm getting hurt. That's not the way I pitch.

John Wetteland had a very good curveball. He threw it for a strike, too, in any count, any situation. But, he really didn't use it much. He didn't want to throw it. He wanted to throw fastball-slider.

I only know one way to pitch. I really do.

I never knew how to throw a fastball, never learned how to throw a curveball, a slider, split-finger, whatever they're throwing nowadays. I was a one-pitch pitcher.

I use fast curves, pitched overhand and sidearm, fastballs, high and inside, and an underhand fade away pitch with the hand almost down to the level of the knees.

The three most important pitches I threw in my life were all fastballs.

My pitching philosophy is simple - keep the ball way from the bat.

I've been working on my finishing for quite some time. It's just a question of paying attention to the minor details.

I was short with my fastball and breaking ball.

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