Yu Darvish

“I can throw strikes any time.”

“Even if I was tipping my pitches, I could have thrown pitches good enough to not be hit.”

“Like I'm seeing Chris Sale; he's got a similar pitching style and strikes guys out a lot. Why are people only talking about my strikeouts and all that stuff?... Why not the other guys, who have similar numbers and pitch counts?”

“I'm a slow guy.”

“When I saw the generosity of spirit of the people who live in America and their willingness to give second chances, it had a very wonderful effect on me.”

“My kids and wife love Chicago, especially the kids.”

“I'm not good at math.”

“I want to focus more on my pitches, not on the tempo. After that, I felt more comfortable.”

“I want to speak better English.”

“I would like to come back in the World Series. And I want to pitch better.”

“My average against hitters is pretty good.”

“If I were to return to Japan, Nippon Ham would be my top choice. No doubt about that.”

“I had bad days, and that means somebody else had a great day.”

“I'm a big guy, right? But I began to realize that by actually using my body like a big guy, I couldn't control my pitches the way I wanted to.”

“I could throw the ball hard, but at this level if you're not accurate, it's easy for batters to light you up with home runs. That's when I started concentrating on making my movements more compact. It just seemed to me that smaller movements would produce the kind of pitching I desired.”

“Major league hitters have more power. But Japanese hitters are very good at making contact. I don't like either.”

“It is my biggest regret that I gave up 10 runs on my last outing as a Ranger.”

“America has a culture of not saying sorry. I think there are a lot of people who will never admit they're wrong.”

“I'm never satisfied until I win all the games and have an ERA of 0.00.”

“I almost feel like I grew up and was raised in America now, because I'm so comfortable here.”