Top 66 Clayton Kershaw Quotes

I know I didn’t deserve this, but God has given me this baseball ability. So I’ve got to do whatever I can to honor him.

As competitors, winning is what drives you.

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.

When you’re a kid, you just hope you make it to the big leagues. So to get to go say you’re going to play in the World Series, it’s an incredibly special moment. Up there with getting married and having kids, it’s right up there with one of the best days of my life.

Baseball is so performance-based. It’s what have you done for me lately. I can get a lot of pressure and you can feel that, but if your life is given to God and your into Jesus there’s really no pressure because at the end of the day your life is in His control and you surrender to that.

Saying you’re a Christian shouldn’t turn people off. You should love people well and that’s Jesus’ first commandment!

People make a big deal about celebrations and what’s appropriate and what’s not. But just talking with some veteran guys, I think anytime you get a chance to celebrate with your team, regardless if it’s winning the division or winning a series, whatever it is, you take advantage of that.

Jesus is the only true way to Heaven.

Anytime a pitcher hasn’t faced a hitter, I feel the pitcher has the advantage. The more times the hitter sees somebody, the more the advantage goes to the hitter.

I don’t really judge myself, I guess. I don’t really judge other players.

I don’t care how you get the outs. It doesn’t matter to me how bad it looks, how good it looks, how many strikeouts you have. None of that stuff matters as long as you get the outs.

What a blessing it is to throw a baseball for a living!

Regardless on winning the Cy Young, I have one goal that never changes, and that’s to win every start.

Baseball could end tomorrow but you’re just understanding that God is in control of it and we are not.

I love baseball. I have a huge passion to play the game.

You play baseball. You play a lot of games. You win a lot of stuff. You win a World Series. But if that’s all you’ve done, what have you got to show for it?

Just try to live in moment as much as you can each pitch, not worry about what happened after the past has happened.

I grew up a Dodger and got drafted by the Dodgers.

My goal is to win just for the teammates and the guys in our room.

Baseball is so hard as it is. For me, if you simplify it, it takes a little bit of the weight off, rather than trying to figure out all these other things. It’s just peace of mind.

I think more than anything, just putting in perspective what this baseball thing means and understanding that it is a gift and I didn’t do anything to deserve that and realizing that if we continue to look to God to guide our path, you never know what could happen.

We don’t own anything that we have. It is all a gift from God and we are just trying to be good stewards of what He gives us.

I was given a gift to throw a baseball. I didn’t do anything to deserve that.

My changeup needs to be better. Until I feel comfortable throwing that pitch – or any pitch – in any count, I’ve got stuff to work on.

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

The goal is always a complete game.

On a day I start, I have a turkey sandwich for lunch. I don’t consider it a ritual, but I’m anxious on those days.

I learned the slider out of desperation.

It’s always great to do something to impact kids in sports.

A line drive to the warning track on one pitch, I’ll take that over a strikeout any day.

I’m a big Taylor Swift fan. I really like her song ‘Mean.’

Everyone talks about how hard it is to have a kid, and that scares you into waiting.

Things change. Routines change. Things have to change. But change doesn’t mean less. It just means different.

All the individual stuff is great, but I just want to win a World Series.

I’m not trying to strike everybody out.

When you’re out there in the heat of the moment and you’re pitching, and it’s a big situation, you’re saying ‘Don’t throw a ball, don’t give up a hit, don’t walk this guy.’ But the harder you want to control something the more it gets out of your control.

Any time first time out, you just want to make sure you can get hitters out again.

I don’t know if money is something to really celebrate.

There’s a lot of times that you got to put yourself out there to fail, you can’t be afraid to fail.

You can’t compare regular season to postseason.

The Steph Currys, the Jordan Spieths, those guys are exciting to watch.

Ultimately, baseball is just a game. It’s not so much how you play, but how you represent him why you’re playing.

I don’t turn off being a dad. It supersedes being a baseball player.

At the end of the day that’s why I play the game, to glorify Him in everything I do and to compete for Him.

I’m a good hitter for a pitcher.

I don’t think I’m going to ever be the guy that gives soundbite after soundbite. If somebody has a question, I’ll answer it. But if they don’t, I don’t have anything to say, really.

I love L.A. I love being out here.

Baseball is going to end some day. I realize that as soon as you retire you know, people forget about you in this game fast! There’s the next young guy coming up that’s always better than you. So, for me, it’s just about using baseball as a platform to do a lot of things.

They say baseball’s a game of failure. Well, that’s only true on the offensive side.

I hate watching myself on video. I don’t ever do it. I’m just too hard on myself, and I always go away feeling like, Wow, I’ve got a ton to work on.

I’m a big sports fan even outside of baseball. I love watching guys that are supposed to be great, and are great, live up to the expectations. So I really appreciate consistency.

No matter how long you play this game, you struggle and your confidence will go here and there at times.

You are not supposed to convert anybody, that’s God’s job. But at the same time, you can be His disciple and live for Him and when people ask you why are you living for Him, you can show them why and profess your faith.

God gave me an ability to throw a baseball. He chose me for a reason, and I want to honor Him with that.

When the butterflies in my stomach, when those leave, then I know it’s probably time to retire.

If you’re playing baseball, why are you playing baseball? Is it to have success on the field and be a Hall-of-Famer or whatever it is? Sure, that’s everyone’s goal. But then what? For me, it’s about the legacy you leave off the field.

I don’t really watch video of myself. Yeah, I don’t really – I never really have.

I’ve failed my fair share of times no doubt.

Getting to say you’re going to the World Series is a pretty special thing.

I don’t know, I think everybody deals with nerves and adrenaline a little bit differently.

Yeah, strikeouts just kind of happen. It’s not something I’m trying to do, I’m just trying to get outs as fast as possible.

It’s an uncomfortable thing to talk about myself, in general.

If I can make a kid smile playing baseball, that’s pretty awesome.

Who knows how many times I’m going to get to go to the World Series? I know more than anybody how hard it is to get there.

I’ve been fortunate my whole career because I’ve had great guys to learn from.

You can’t have your bullpen throwing three or four innings every night. Just not fair to them.