Stephen Gostkowski Quotes

The good rising fastball is the best pitch in baseball.

You aren't going to stick around long with just two pitches.

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

Pitching is 80% of the game and the other half is hitting and fielding.

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

I've learned over the years that it doesn't matter where you pitch in the rotation. For me, preparation is everything.

I was short with my fastball and breaking ball.

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

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

I think I'm constantly trying to grow as a pitcher. You start going out there, you're learning stuff, you're finding different ways to try to get guys out. Trying to be creative.

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

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've got some good movement on my sinking fastball, and I rely on that.

When you don't have one that you throw for strikes - they are good hitters - they can cancel out one pitch and go to another. Now I have four pitches. If one's not working, I've got three others. It makes the game totally different.

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

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

John Wetteland had a very good curveball. He threw it for a strike, too, in any count, any situation. But, he really didn't use it much. He didn't want to throw it. He wanted to throw fastball-slider.

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

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.

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

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

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.

In baseball I was very singularly focused. If I was pitching it was me versus the hitter.

It's hard to be a two-pitch guy. People tell you that, but you don't really believe it.

I think if you think that far ahead about the first four, or to be champions, that is something you cannot control. You can control the training, and then the performance will come game by game, and do not think that far ahead.