Quality Starts 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.

Six innings, you're doing your job. That's a good target to have, but I'm always looking to improve. There's three more innings of improvement left.

I'm a huge advocate of pitching. You have to have good pitching as the solid core, the foundation. It keeps you in every game.

Sometimes offense wins. Sometimes pitching wins.

I expect to pitch well and pitch efficiently.

During my time, there might have been one pitcher or two that were top pitchers on a team. Teams that won maybe had three, but today they have a lot of depth. They have a lot of long relievers, short relievers, and the strategy is different.

Any time you can go out there and throw 12 pitches in any inning, you give your team some momentum coming in and get some confidence out on the mound.

It takes 20 victories for people to recognize you as a great pitcher.

We have to have great pitching performances from our guys, and we have to take it from there.

For me, the game starts with starting pitching.

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

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

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.