Gerrit Cole Quotes

I've always been fastball-curveball and really relied on that pitch, and when it goes away, it just totally changes how you attack hitters.

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

The reason I think I'm a good pitcher is I locate my fastball and I change speeds. Period. That's what you do to pitch. That's what pitchers have to do to win games.

My pitching philosophy is simple - keep the ball way from the bat.

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.

Getting my curveball back and finding another pitch just helped me figure out how to pitch.

I threw a good fastball and changeup, but a below-average curveball.

That's why it's so important to have that gap between your fastball and off-speed pitches: then, when you effectively locate your fastball, it plays at a higher velocity.

Later, I could take something off my slider and I could make my fastball sink, so I really had four pitches.

I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it.

I was short with my fastball and breaking ball.

The big thing will be having two pitches you can throw for strikes and developing a change-up, too.

Half the time, I have trouble following our own pitcher's sequence.

That's when I'm at my best. When I can throw a fastball over in the count, just throw strikes both in and away, it just sets up all my stuff.

Give me 10 high school pitchers, let me spend a week with them, and I'll show you 10 pitchers who won't balk. It's not that difficult, and they better learn it.

I've got a fastball, change-up, forkball, curve, slider, knuckle-slider, knuckle-curve, I had about seven pitches I could have used at any time.

The good rising fastball is the best pitch in baseball.

I never knew how to throw a fastball, never learned how to throw a curveball, a slider, split-finger, whatever they're throwing nowadays. I was a one-pitch pitcher.

I think the changeup has become more popular recently by pitchers like Pedro Martinez and the success he had with it.

If I can execute pitches and keep the ball out of the middle of the plate, I know I can have success.

I know when I get to 0-2, 1-2, when I'm ahead in the count, that I hold a distinct advantage over every single hitter. I have so many options because I don't have to work within the strike zone anymore.

I just try to make the pitcher work.

I'll get in that habit of throwing the ball over the plate too much. You want to keep it going, get those guys back into the dugout. But it's not a good thing when you're over more than a third of the plate.

In my bullpen sessions, I'm just trying to feel comfortable, throw strikes, and not get too complicated.

I'm trying to throw more curves because I'm always throwing fastball, slider, fastball, slider.