Jake Arrieta Quotes

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

The good rising fastball is the best pitch in baseball.

Pitching is what you have best on the day you work, and if you can't get your fastball over the plate, then maybe you can win with your curve.

Maybe I'm biased because I'm a pitcher, but I think that's pretty cool that a guy can throw a ball 100 miles an hour.

I was short with my fastball and breaking ball.

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

I'm pretty proud of my fastball. I can throw a screwball. It's not as accurate, and I don't have the velocity like I do with my fastball, but I think my fastball is not too shabby.

There's more to pitching than just striking guys out, but also it is a big reason why you can have success.

No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball.

If you talk to any pitcher, consistency is the most important thing.

I never resorted to the spitter until I was obliged to. I nearly ruined my arm throwing curves.

Hideki Irabu had a very good curveball. Just a straight up and down, swing-and-miss curveball.

Show me a guy who can't pitch inside and I'll show you a loser.

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

Nolan Ryan is pitching much better now that he has his curve ball straightened out.

Striking out batters was easy.

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.

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

I just try to make the pitcher work.

I was a thrower. I think I'm more of a pitcher now.

I could throw pretty hard. I might strike out 16 guys, but I might walk 10. I mean, I was wild.

Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.

I throw the ball ninety-two miles an hour, but they hit it back just as hard.

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.