As competitors, winning is what drives you.
— Clayton Kershaw
Everyone talks about how hard it is to have a kid, and that scares you into waiting.
If I don't go 200 innings, it's been a tough year.
There's a lot of variables you can't control in trying to win a game, but at the end of the day it does mean something to win a game in the big leagues and be on the mound.
Winning the World Series is really all that we play this game for.
The way I look at it, 29 teams fail every year and one team succeeds.
You can't control the talents He gives you, no doubt about that. But you can control the effort you put forth with those talents.
I think first and foremost when you look at every other religion all over the world - its works based - you have to earn your way to the Kingdom. With Jesus, it's so different because we didn't do anything to deserve Him. He literally died for us and saved us! There's nothing else like that in the world. There is no other God like that!
I hate watching myself on video. I don't ever do it. I'm just too hard on myself, and I always go away feeling like, Wow, I've got a ton to work on.
I don't care how you get the outs. It doesn't matter to me how bad it looks, how good it looks, how many strikeouts you have. None of that stuff matters as long as you get the outs.
I don't think I'm going to ever be the guy that gives soundbite after soundbite. If somebody has a question, I'll answer it. But if they don't, I don't have anything to say, really.
It's just Lord be with me... Winning and losing isn't the most important thing. He's not worried about the outcome of the game. He's worried about how I reflect Him and how I'm pitching... I think every time you pitch and every time you go on the mound you have to understand that it's for Him.
Baseball could end tomorrow but you're just understanding that God is in control of it and we are not.
You are not supposed to convert anybody, that's God's job. But at the same time, you can be His disciple and live for Him and when people ask you why are you living for Him, you can show them why and profess your faith.
It's amazing to see where baseball can take you.
I'm not trying to strike everybody out.
Any time first time out, you just want to make sure you can get hitters out again.
You never want to be in a defensive mode or have a defensive mindset. You always want to know that you're in control as the pitcher, you make him get hits, you're never passive, always aggressive. If I get beat, I want it to be because I got rocked, got hit hard, never because I walked a couple of guys and before you know it.
Cali was a name I've always loved.
I'm not a big thinker. The less thinking the better.
I love L.A. I love being out here.
My goal is to win just for the teammates and the guys in our room.
Who knows how many times I'm going to get to go to the World Series? I know more than anybody how hard it is to get there.
God gave me an ability to throw a baseball. He chose me for a reason, and I want to honor Him with that.
Baseball is going to end some day. I realize that as soon as you retire you know, people forget about you in this game fast! There's the next young guy coming up that's always better than you. So, for me, it's just about using baseball as a platform to do a lot of things.
Baseball is so hard as it is. For me, if you simplify it, it takes a little bit of the weight off, rather than trying to figure out all these other things. It's just peace of mind.
There's a responsibility to the coaches, to the organization, to the front office, to the owners, to everybody who believes in you enough to give you what you've gotten, to the fans that show up every day and pay to watch you play - all those things combined. It's not fair to take a day off.
It's an uncomfortable thing to talk about myself, in general.
I love baseball. I have a huge passion to play the game.
I think more than anything, just putting in perspective what this baseball thing means and understanding that it is a gift and I didn't do anything to deserve that and realizing that if we continue to look to God to guide our path, you never know what could happen.
It's always great to do something to impact kids in sports.
If I can make a kid smile playing baseball, that's pretty awesome.
All I really try to do is whatever hitter gets in there, I just try to get him out in as few pitches as possible.
The Steph Currys, the Jordan Spieths, those guys are exciting to watch.
I take a little pride in my diaper-changing, actually.
You can make a lot of cases that you can take the win stat out of the game and you can still figure out who the good pitchers are, and I agree with that to some extent. But there's something about your win-loss record, there's something about having wins by your name that means something. Regardless of how important that is.
All the individual stuff is great, but I just want to win a World Series.
I don't really judge myself, I guess. I don't really judge other players.
Jesus is the only true way to Heaven.
Saying you're a Christian shouldn't turn people off. You should love people well and that's Jesus' first commandment!
What a blessing it is to throw a baseball for a living!
I don't know if money is something to really celebrate.
I get paid a bunch of money to do this, and so there's a responsibility to my teammates, every single day, to show up and be the absolute best you can be.
Baseball is so performance-based. It's what have you done for me lately. I can get a lot of pressure and you can feel that, but if your life is given to God and your into Jesus there's really no pressure because at the end of the day your life is in His control and you surrender to that.
I was given a gift to throw a baseball. I didn't do anything to deserve that.
I started really believing and understanding what it meant to be a follower of Jesus when I was probably in high school sometime. From there, just trying to draw on my faith since then.
Baseball is just a game, obviously, but it means a lot to a lot of different people.
A line drive to the warning track on one pitch, I'll take that over a strikeout any day.
I've kind of found out that when I do get into trouble, that when I do have people on base, sometimes the best thing is to throw a little bit more off-speed, back off a little bit.
