Words matter. These are the best Yu Darvish Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I am a baseball player and I enjoy getting batters out and that is what I want to continue doing.
Kids used to say stuff all the time about how I was different.
Personally, do I feel like an All-Star? I don’t think so.
Even if I was tipping my pitches, I could have thrown pitches good enough to not be hit.
I’m a big guy, right? But I began to realize that by actually using my body like a big guy, I couldn’t control my pitches the way I wanted to.
I could throw the ball hard, but at this level if you’re not accurate, it’s easy for batters to light you up with home runs. That’s when I started concentrating on making my movements more compact. It just seemed to me that smaller movements would produce the kind of pitching I desired.
When a player cheats, you can’t have a gold medal, right?
I’m never satisfied until I win all the games and have an ERA of 0.00.
I’m a slow guy.
I want to focus more on my pitches, not on the tempo. After that, I felt more comfortable.
America has a culture of not saying sorry. I think there are a lot of people who will never admit they’re wrong.
In life, I think huge failures are extremely important.
Since coming to the major leagues, my passion toward baseball had started to decrease.
If I were to return to Japan, Nippon Ham would be my top choice. No doubt about that.
I would like to come back in the World Series. And I want to pitch better.
I almost feel like I grew up and was raised in America now, because I’m so comfortable here.
It is my biggest regret that I gave up 10 runs on my last outing as a Ranger.
I want to become the type of pitcher any one in the world can say is the world’s best pitcher.
My average against hitters is pretty good.
When I look at my numbers, I don’t give up a lot of hits.
I can throw strikes any time.
I feel that if I absolve myself and say it was the Astros’ fault I was bad in Game 7, in the World Series, I can’t develop as a person.
I want to speak better English.
I want to throw a faster fastball. I want a sharper curve. I want to improve all my pitches.
I had told my wife that I was thinking of retiring at the end of the year. I was thinking I didn’t want to do it anymore, but then I was traded to the Dodgers.
There were a small number of voices that said, ‘Darvish only cares about strikeouts.’ Although I may have had strikeouts in my mind, fans, team, teammates and team staff were always my top priority.
I’m not good at math.
The Houston Astros are an organization I really respect and they have a lot of great players.
Like I’m seeing Chris Sale; he’s got a similar pitching style and strikes guys out a lot. Why are people only talking about my strikeouts and all that stuff?… Why not the other guys, who have similar numbers and pitch counts?
On a scale of 1 to 10, I can bring a 10 to any important game.
