Innings Pitched Quotes

You feel like a stud out there when people swing and miss. As I've gotten older, I've preached to our young guys that strikeouts are sexy, but outs are outs, man, no matter how you get them. It's a lot cooler for me pitching in the seventh or eighth inning than it is going 5 1/3. Your manager likes it a lot more, too.

I want to be the guy that can go out there and go at least seven, eight innings every time out.

Regardless of how long it took or what I had to go through to get there, I had visualizations of throwing no-hitters or throwing shutouts.

I expect to pitch well and pitch efficiently.

Baseball skills schizophrenically encompass a pitcher's, a batter's and a fielder's.

You can't get too caught up in trying to pitch a complete game, because that's hard to do.

I've got to keep my pitch count down. If you want to go deep into ballgames, you have to stay under that 100 mark.

I don't try for strikeouts, but batters just swing and miss. I'd exchange strikeouts for more innings. As a starter, my job is to go deep into the game. When you get strikeouts, you throw a lot of pitches and sometimes you come out early.

For me, the game starts with starting pitching.

They can't have Randy Johnson and Curt Schilling lose a game.

I'm pretty much the one that goes to the mound.

When I look at my numbers, I don't give up a lot of hits.

I'm proud of the fact that I pitched almost 3,300 innings.

If I don't go 200 innings, it's been a tough year.

You're just trying to go out there and give seven innings. Seven innings, 105 pitches, that's a good outing.

You can make a lot of cases that you can take the win stat out of the game and you can still figure out who the good pitchers are, and I agree with that to some extent. But there's something about your win-loss record, there's something about having wins by your name that means something. Regardless of how important that is.

As a pitcher, you're supposed to succeed, and you're not supposed to give up a hit.