Top 44 Gerrit Cole Quotes

I just go out and do my job.

David Price comes and finds me out in the lobby and says, ‘Dude, I really enjoy watching you pitch.’ I’m just like, ‘What’s wrong with you? Watch your own games, bro. I just throw fastballs inside. You’re painting all over the place, striking the world out.’

It feels good to be able to contribute, eat innings, provide some rest for the bullpen.

Base runners in postseason games are kind of tough to deal with at times.

You get into a situation where your back’s up against the wall and you don’t have any option but to go out swinging, so you might as well go for it.

I mean, our job is – we’re baseball players, we have to go to work. But when it all boils down, we’re just a bunch of kids out there having fun trying to entertain people.

My job is to go out there and just, with whatever I got that day, just give my team the best chance to win.

You figure when you match up against other clubs and you go through the lineup one through nine, you get to the nine hole, if you can put together an at-bat or you can see some different pitches that helps give you an advantage competitively, it can make your lineup stronger.

I was hurt in 2016, and it made me look at longevity and sustainability. The stuff that I was doing wasn’t working for me long term. So, I had to make a change.

I tremendously value wins.

There’s hard work to be done, which I’ll do. I’ll continue to do it.

Nobody’s immune from getting beat. If you’re not aware of that, you really don’t have a great perspective.

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 just like to leave it out there and feel like I put in a good day’s work.

Strikeouts are something that just happen. You don’t go for strikeouts, because your pitch count gets too high. When you do get that opportunity, you have to put them away with whatever is working that day.

You have to win the easy ones.

We’re out there pitching for wins, not for stat lines.

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.

It doesn’t really matter who you’re playing. You just have to keep going at them.

I try to get early contact and keep it on the ground. I like to keep the ball down as much as I can.

Well, I mean, I like to be pretty athletic off the mound in terms of taking care of my job, which is covering first base, fielding bunts in certain situations, fielding slow rollers to the first base and having to communicate and direct traffic.

You’re always just so inspired to get in the game and try to contribute any way you can.

It would be irresponsible for me to comment on somebody else’s opinions.

As a competitor, you want to pitch against the elite guys and really good guys.

I don’t think I’m going to dwell on one pitch. You’ve got to be able to shake that off in the middle of the game.

You have to win the grinders.

I had a great time at school. The experience was quite fulfilling, especially going to the World Series.

If I’m not going to make the pitch, then so be it. I’m not going to try to manipulate the ball or muscle the ball over the plate where I want it to go.

The season is long. You go through aches and pains with your brothers. When it’s on the line, you just want to give them – you know, you want to perform. You want to give them a shot to win the game.

You can have really good statistics, which are really good, and it’s a serious advantage, but when push comes to shove, it’s about players communicating and players playing together.

There’s a lot of pageantry involved in opening day, flyovers, extra long TV breaks and stuff. To say that it’s not important, more so than some other ones, it is. It’s the first game of the year. but I got 30 starts to make. Each win or loss is equally as important.

The most rewarding thing to me is going deep into games, knowing you stood up, and did your job.

I feel like, by now, if you don’t understand that the playoffs can be somewhat of a crapshoot sometimes, then you don’t watch enough baseball.

You don’t want to let the other team feed off your outward physical demeanor. But at the same time, you can’t go out and play this game and not expect to just be angry and be competitive and be excited and have that fire in your belly.

It was a pleasure to play in Houston.

Altuve is just so good at that. He can decide halfway to the plate where he’s going to place the ball. I’ve never seen that kind of talent before in my life, and I don’t know if I’ll ever see it again.

I was sooo skinny.

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

A lot of these dips that you go through in the season, it’s about persisting through the process and trusting it.

I try to show up and do my job and get my work in every day, keep pressing forward.

You know in a playoff atmosphere anything can happen.

Every start is an opportunity to get better and to learn how your body is feeling and what you need to do moving forward. It’s been an evolution throughout the year.

Being able to taste failure, it makes you kind of want to throw up. It makes you just hate the game.

I’ve obviously learned a lot, a lot of mental toughness, learned how to deal with some adversity. Hopefully I’m better for it.