Jake Arrieta Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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'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 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.

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.

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

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

I know my fastball command will get even better.

I just try to make the pitcher work.

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.

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

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.

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

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

I think we mixed a lot more curveballs than normal because they were either going after my drop or laying off of it and that's normally my go-to (pitch).

I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice.

When a batter swings and I see his knees move, I can tell just what his weaknesses are then I just put the ball where I know he can't hit it.

Basically, hitters fall into a pattern, and once you know what they like, you can set them up for the putout with something else.

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.