Top 66 Max Scherzer Quotes

Your pitches have to be sharp every time out.

Sometimes in this game, you get punched in the face. And you’ve got to be able to take it and learn from it.

If you’re constantly just trying to go in this win-loss cycle that MLB is pushing, you are creating bandwagon fans, and that’s not the type of fans you want to create.

The advanced stats are great to look at for my long-term goals and what I’m trying to accomplish. It shows me there is an inherent failure in pitching. The luck involved, the factors you can’t control. You just have to let go of those and focus on the next batter, the next game.

When I was 18, graduating high school, I was going to the University of Missouri.

I’ve seen so many of my friends get cut and released and all taken advantage of because at the end of the day, we say it’s the business part of the game.

I’m a fly-ball pitcher, guys.

When you can celebrate with your teammates on just a major accomplishment, there’s nothing better.

I understand what sabermetrics get across, and what they’re getting across is to keep it simple. Especially for me, as a pitcher, that’s something that helps me – finding ways to keep it simple. Numbers can only tell so much.

I’m not trying to throw six or seven pitches just to be able to strike you out. I’m trying to do it in three or four. It’s the homework and the process between starts that I really focus on to help me do that.

I’m not trying to strike them out, but there are certain situations, when it’s an 0-2 count or a 1-2 count, when I want to have a pitch where I want to strike you out.

It’s my goal every single year. That’s the only goal I really set for myself is to make sure I’m better every single year.

I’m looking to generate strikeouts in every way I can.

When Jim Leyland calls – and I have so much respect for Jim Leyland – when he asked me to play, you don’t say no.

In previous experiences of being in the All-Star Games, you know, seeing the hometown players and how the fans get behind the hometown players, it’s always been a special moment just watching that from afar and being on the other side.

I never want the ball above my shoulders until I’m really firing. I feel like I can generate more velocity with my arm path. The way my arm works, there’s so many benefits to it – from a health standpoint, as well.

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

I take a great deal of pride in pitching deep into ballgames.

I just continue to keep getting better.

I’ve had a better 2017 than I’ve had 2016, just like a better ’16 than ’15 and ’14.

I relish pitching underneath pressure.

That’s sometimes the hardest thing to do as a professional athlete, because when you get lit up, you wear it, especially as a starting pitcher.

I don’t get caught up in the hoopla, worry about where I’m pitching or if I’m pitching Game 1 or Game 5.

The expectations and pressure doesn’t mean you change. That’s something that’s always been instilled in me, and doesn’t matter what the situation or what the game means, I’m always going to approach the game the same way.

I know how to pitch.

A lot of times, I’ve always looked at pitching in the All-Star Game as a prelude to how you pitch in the postseason, sometimes how you might have to pitch on two days’ rest out of the pen, only throw one inning and then you have to go face the best hitters. That’s what you do in the All-Star Game.

For me, I really enjoy helping out the Youth Baseball Academy. That’s something that any time you’re helping out the game of baseball with at risk children, that puts a smile on my face.

It’s always, ‘No matter what the outing is, you can always find a way to be a better pitcher.’ No matter what you do.

You have to find a way to improve yourself.

For me, it’s all about winning.

Everyone wants to criticize my mechanics, but maybe I’ve got good mechanics that make the ball go up.

You have to be able to analyze yourself and critique yourself from every which way.

Any type of discomfort is going to alter the way I throw the ball. If I alter the way I throw the ball, I run the risk of major injury to my arm.

You’ve got to get better every single year, it doesn’t matter.

When I can buy strikes with that curveball, that just lets everything else play up.

I need to eat a large meal before I play, and the one thing that was kind of consistent in every single clubhouse at least in the minors was a roast beef sandwich. So that kind of stuck there, and it just kind of stuck in the big leagues as well.

Sometimes you have to throw 120 pitches to figure yourself out.

I really wanted to go to college.

For me, I’m always willing to help young guys, because veterans have helped me out.

Strikeouts are important. Anytime you can generate an out without the ball being put in play, there’s nothing that can be done in those situations.

You want to create the fans that are following the team year in, year out.

I grew up with dogs. My wife really loves dogs.

You have to have the ultimate faith and belief in what you do.

Any time I’ve put extra work in, I see results.

I love competing against the best.

For me, I’m not going to be hitting the ball out of the ballpark. I know that.

I don’t know what my record’s going to be. I can’t dictate it. I mean, obviously I have to pitch well, but it also takes the guys at the plate to show up as well.

I beat the odds, and I beat the odds so many times.

I pitch to win.

That’s been kinda my secret. You use everything off the field to help make you better on the field.

I’m not worried about good numbers or bad numbers. You worry about the process.

I’ve said it, I’ll keep saying it, I want to be in Detroit. I’ve really enjoyed my time here. I really enjoy the clubhouse and everyone that’s involved.

Who would people rather see, a real hitter hitting home runs or a pitcher swinging a wet newspaper?

I’ve got a high-school swing. I know that. But you know what? It’s good enough to get a ball in play.

Every single pitcher is making changes every single start. You can talk to any pitcher about this.

All of the off-field stuff, I can promise you, it doesn’t even register with me.

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

Being in the clubhouse, talking to the veterans, talking to guys who have been here, getting to know everybody, getting the personalities, you can actually learn a lot from the other players in the league.

I’m not throwing a no-hitter Opening Day. It’s just not going to happen.

When there’s too many teams that are not trying to win, that poisons the game, poisons the fan experience, and it creates bandwagon fans.

The game can come down to one pitch. But when you’re actually out there on the mound and when you’re pitching, you can’t be worrying about the margin of error or whatnot. You have to go with your strengths and what you believe is the right pitch and keep executing pitches.

I expect to pitch well and pitch efficiently.

Celebrating with your team after wins, that’s the best.

You never stay the same – as a pitcher, as an athlete. It doesn’t matter what you do, you never stay the same.

When you give your team five innings, you don’t really feel good about five innings.

I understand why there is a push for an automated strike zone. However, I do think there would be some unintended consequences of having it that I think need to be addressed first before we would go down that road.