Trevor Bauer

“It's definitely nice to come and say, 'Yeah, I put in a lot of work and I worked on the right stuff and it is working,' as opposed to saying 'I put in a lot of work and I don't know if it's working or not.'”

“I care about making the game, the industry and the people I'm around better because I'm around. Ultimately that's what creates a legacy... But you have to be OK with making people mad because people don't like change.”

“Performing well's always pleasing, especially when the team gets the win and you can help contribute to it.”

“Zito was my favorite pitcher for a good long time, pretty much until Lincecum came into the league. Obviously, if you know Barry Zito, you know the big curveball. So that was kind of my inspiration for learning how to throw it. Tried to pattern that pitch off of him as much as possible.”

“People get the wrong impression about me. They think I'm elitist or I'm conceited or whatever. But I'm a really good person. I take care of my friends and my family. I'm kindhearted. I'm a better person than a lot of people I'm surrounded by. I'll get chewed up for saying that, but it's true.”

“I don't think it's right to be throwing at someone intentionally, and risking injuring them by hitting them in the wrist, or the elbow, or the ribs.”

“Growth and maturation isn't celebrated or isn't talked about in society now. Is it possible that I was a bad teammate in 2012? Sure. Is it also possible that I'm a good teammate in 2019? Sure.”

“I just get this reputation of being a bad teammate, but no one would come in and tell me why.”

“I do think more players should engage with fans, especially on social media.”

“Sometimes you don't realize how unhappy you are in a situation until you are out of it, because it's just kind of day-to-day life.”

“That's really one thing I really care about as a person is trying to make the people's lives around me better. Whether that's just being a friend and listening or with information I can offer. However it is, that's something I care about and I try to do on a regular basis.”

“I'm very much human.”

“I try to understand other people's viewpoints on things and be better in the future. I think if you look at my history as a baseball player, my history on social media and my history as a person, for those who know me well, they know that I apply that process to everything that I do.”

“A piece of my training program is doing exercises to force myself to work in an unconscious or a subconscious realm, as opposed to a conscious realm.”

“I finally at some point in high school just decided that's what I was going to do. I was going to be true to myself.”

“I want to be a member of a winning team.”

“Until I have a season where I do feel like I'm the best, I don't think I'm really going to be satisfied with it. And even when I do have a season where I feel like I'm the best, I'm sure I'll find something that I'm unsatisfied with it. That's kind of how I am.”

“I wasn't a natural-born athlete. I was made.”

“Baseball will never address that problem unless it has to, though, because I would guess 70 percent of the pitchers in the league use some sort of technically illegal substance on the ball. It's just that some organizations really know how to weaponize that and some don't.”

“I enjoyed baseball more as a kid, when it was just fun.”