Clayton Kershaw

“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.”

“Things change. Routines change. Things have to change. But change doesn't mean less. It just means different.”

“I don't turn off being a dad. It supersedes being a baseball player.”

“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 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.”

“It's an uncomfortable thing to talk about myself, in general.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“It's just Lord be with me... Winning and losing isn't the most important thing. He's not worried about the outcome of the game. He's worried about how I reflect Him and how I'm pitching... I think every time you pitch and every time you go on the mound you have to understand that it's for Him.”

“When you win the Cy Young, it's like, well, you're a baseball player, that's what you're supposed to do. When you win the Clemente Award, you don't do it to get recognized for your work, but it means so much more than baseball.”

“You can make a lot of cases that you can take the win stat out of the game and you can still figure out who the good pitchers are, and I agree with that to some extent. But there's something about your win-loss record, there's something about having wins by your name that means something. Regardless of how important that is.”

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

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

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

“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've been fortunate my whole career because I've had great guys to learn from.”

“You never want to be in a defensive mode or have a defensive mindset. You always want to know that you're in control as the pitcher, you make him get hits, you're never passive, always aggressive. If I get beat, I want it to be because I got rocked, got hit hard, never because I walked a couple of guys and before you know it.”

“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.”