Max Scherzer Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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.

I was short with my fastball and breaking ball.

I threw a good fastball and changeup, but a below-average curveball.

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 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.

Getting my curveball back and finding another pitch just helped me figure out how to pitch.

I've always been fastball-curveball and really relied on that pitch, and when it goes away, it just totally changes how you attack hitters.

Half the time, I have trouble following our own pitcher's sequence.

That's when I'm at my best. When I can throw a fastball over in the count, just throw strikes both in and away, it just sets up all my stuff.

That's why it's so important to have that gap between your fastball and off-speed pitches: then, when you effectively locate your fastball, it plays at a higher velocity.

I want to throw a faster fastball. I want a sharper curve. I want to improve all my pitches.

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

I've got a fastball, change-up, forkball, curve, slider, knuckle-slider, knuckle-curve, I had about seven pitches I could have used at any time.

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 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.

You can be a two-pitch guy and be successful, but your room for error is very small.

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.

When I can buy strikes with that curveball, that just lets everything else play up.

I'll get in that habit of throwing the ball over the plate too much. You want to keep it going, get those guys back into the dugout. But it's not a good thing when you're over more than a third of the plate.

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

The good rising fastball is the best pitch in baseball.