Jake Arrieta 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.

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

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

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

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

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.

If you can constantly just put pressure on all four quadrants, it gives you a little more leverage to be able to fill the zone up with breaking balls and fastball counts - or with breaking balls when guys are maybe sitting on the fastball that you've established.

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.

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

I was short with my fastball and breaking ball.

Cleaning up that lack of the definition between the two, and then leaning on the four-seam, having it become my primary fastball over my two-seam, it's just benefited me as a whole.

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

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

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.

Later, I could take something off my slider and I could make my fastball sink, so I really had four pitches.

The good rising fastball is the best pitch in baseball.

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 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.

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

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.

In my bullpen sessions, I'm just trying to feel comfortable, throw strikes, and not get too complicated.

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

Give me 10 high school pitchers, let me spend a week with them, and I'll show you 10 pitchers who won't balk. It's not that difficult, and they better learn it.

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.