Max Scherzer

“You're just trying to go out there and give seven innings. Seven innings, 105 pitches, that's a good outing.”

“Any time I've put extra work in, I see results.”

“I've seen so many of my friends get cut and released and all taken advantage of because at the end of the day, we say it's the business part of the game.”

“Perfectionist is sometimes the wrong word... It means like you're never satisfied, or you're upset by every single failure - any type of failure. And so for me, I don't look at failure as necessarily a bad thing as long as I'm able to learn from it and take something from it, so that next time I'm in that situation I know how to succeed.”

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

“I know how to pitch.”

“If you're constantly just trying to go in this win-loss cycle that MLB is pushing, you are creating bandwagon fans, and that's not the type of fans you want to create.”

“Any type of discomfort is going to alter the way I throw the ball. If I alter the way I throw the ball, I run the risk of major injury to my arm.”

“You have to find a way to improve yourself.”

“When you allow stolen bases, that changes the game.”

“When you can celebrate with your teammates on just a major accomplishment, there's nothing better.”

“You have to be able to analyze yourself and critique yourself from every which way.”

“You worry about how you're throwing the ball, how you're executing your pitches.”

“I'm looking to generate strikeouts in every way I can.”

“I really wanted to go to college.”

“Turning 30, life has definitely changed - it's changed for the better.”

“A lot of times, I've always looked at pitching in the All-Star Game as a prelude to how you pitch in the postseason, sometimes how you might have to pitch on two days' rest out of the pen, only throw one inning and then you have to go face the best hitters. That's what you do in the All-Star Game.”

“There's so many great things I learned at Mizzou. I took a sports psychology class. It was kind of eye-opening on certain different ways to look at things.”

“Push yourself every single day to continue to work at yourself. And I feel like that's the reason why I made it.”

“The advanced stats are great to look at for my long-term goals and what I'm trying to accomplish. It shows me there is an inherent failure in pitching. The luck involved, the factors you can't control. You just have to let go of those and focus on the next batter, the next game.”