Max Scherzer

“I'm not trying to strike them out, but there are certain situations, when it's an 0-2 count or a 1-2 count, when I want to have a pitch where I want to strike you out.”

“I'm a fly-ball pitcher, guys.”

“If I got hurt or anything, I was going to need a college degree. Nothing was going to stop me from getting that.”

“Celebrating with your team after wins, that's the best.”

“Having a pitch clock, if you have ball-strike implications, that's messing with the fabric of the game. There's no clock in baseball, and there's no clock in baseball for a reason.”

“I've got a high-school swing. I know that. But you know what? It's good enough to get a ball in play.”

“It's my goal every single year. That's the only goal I really set for myself is to make sure I'm better every single year.”

“For me, I'm not going to be hitting the ball out of the ballpark. I know that.”

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

“I'm not throwing a no-hitter Opening Day. It's just not going to happen.”

“Everyone wants to criticize my mechanics, but maybe I've got good mechanics that make the ball go up.”

“For me, I really enjoy helping out the Youth Baseball Academy. That's something that any time you're helping out the game of baseball with at risk children, that puts a smile on my face.”

“Pitching is both an art and a science.”

“Every single pitcher is making changes every single start. You can talk to any pitcher about this.”

“I'm not worried about good numbers or bad numbers. You worry about the process.”

“That's sometimes the hardest thing to do as a professional athlete, because when you get lit up, you wear it, especially as a starting pitcher.”

“Strikeouts are important. Anytime you can generate an out without the ball being put in play, there's nothing that can be done in those situations.”

“Sometimes in this game, you get punched in the face. And you've got to be able to take it and learn from it.”

“I need to eat a large meal before I play, and the one thing that was kind of consistent in every single clubhouse at least in the minors was a roast beef sandwich. So that kind of stuck there, and it just kind of stuck in the big leagues as well.”

“Sometimes you have to throw 120 pitches to figure yourself out.”