Gerrit Cole

“The most rewarding thing to me is going deep into games, knowing you stood up, and did your job.”

“Every start is an opportunity to get better and to learn how your body is feeling and what you need to do moving forward. It's been an evolution throughout the year.”

“It doesn't really matter who you're playing. You just have to keep going at them.”

“Trying to get better, always, is my goal.”

“I try to get early contact and keep it on the ground. I like to keep the ball down as much as I can.”

“I've obviously learned a lot, a lot of mental toughness, learned how to deal with some adversity. Hopefully I'm better for it.”

“I always wanted to play with the older kids because they were better and it was more fun. It was harder, and I failed more, but it was more fun.”

“Any time you can get in a position to start to get some of the quality work in as early as possible, I think it gives you a leg up or at least gives you the opportunity to be really prepared for the first time you take the ball.”

“I was sooo skinny.”

“Being able to taste failure, it makes you kind of want to throw up. It makes you just hate the game.”

“You never want to have Yadier Molina up with the bases loaded in the World Series, but, dammit, you wouldn't want a better hitter up. Maybe that's not the way most people think, I don't know. That's how I think.”

“You can have really good statistics, which are really good, and it's a serious advantage, but when push comes to shove, it's about players communicating and players playing together.”

“I think if we just stay focused on what we focus on, which is ourselves, playing good ballgames, trying to win every day, don't take wins with us, don't take losses with us, if we just stay with that approach the results are going to be what they're going to be.”

“The season is long. You go through aches and pains with your brothers. When it's on the line, you just want to give them - you know, you want to perform. You want to give them a shot to win the game.”

“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.”

“This is a game of failure, for the most part.”

“You're always just so inspired to get in the game and try to contribute any way you can.”

“You can't find a bad count to throw a curveball.”

“When you're more comfortable out there, you start seeing different things, relaxing more, being able to trust your pitches more and not try to overdo things as much.”

“I mean, our job is - we're baseball players, we have to go to work. But when it all boils down, we're just a bunch of kids out there having fun trying to entertain people.”