As a competitor, you want to pitch against the elite guys and really good guys.
— Gerrit Cole
It would be irresponsible for me to comment on somebody else's opinions.
There's going to be ups and downs throughout the whole year. You can't get frustrated.
There's hard work to be done, which I'll do. I'll continue to do it.
I feel like sometimes I'm in a position to really do some good, so I try to do that.
You figure when you match up against other clubs and you go through the lineup one through nine, you get to the nine hole, if you can put together an at-bat or you can see some different pitches that helps give you an advantage competitively, it can make your lineup stronger.
What I've been able to do is pretty cool, but there is a lot of room for improvement.
Nobody's immune from getting beat. If you're not aware of that, you really don't have a great perspective.
You get into a situation where your back's up against the wall and you don't have any option but to go out swinging, so you might as well go for it.
A lot of my friends at home call me 'Chef G.'
If you can constantly just put pressure on all four quadrants, it gives you a little more leverage to be able to fill the zone up with breaking balls and fastball counts - or with breaking balls when guys are maybe sitting on the fastball that you've established.
You get into a tough spot where you're not feeling good and you can't do what you're typically accustomed to doing, you just keep grinding.
You have to win the easy ones.
I'm a sucker for Wrigley, so I feel I'll probably be a sucker for Fenway, too.
Family is everything.
You've got to go out there and play your tail off every single day and at times during the year it can be tough to do that.
A lot of these dips that you go through in the season, it's about persisting through the process and trusting it.
I just like to leave it out there and feel like I put in a good day's work.
It wouldn't be any fun if you didn't fail sometimes.
Trying to get better, always, is my goal.
I feel like, by now, if you don't understand that the playoffs can be somewhat of a crapshoot sometimes, then you don't watch enough baseball.
Altuve is just so good at that. He can decide halfway to the plate where he's going to place the ball. I've never seen that kind of talent before in my life, and I don't know if I'll ever see it again.
Base runners in postseason games are kind of tough to deal with at times.
I've always just kind of prided myself on just taking the ball and just trying to give your team a chance to win, and I really don't try to make it any more complicated than that.
Verlander is a guy every right-handed power pitcher looks up to since the beginning of time.
I think that's kind of the common theme when you talk about any good team. Not only do you have the talent and the type of players that allow you to win that many games, but you have to win the ugly ones.
I try to show up and do my job and get my work in every day, keep pressing forward.
You can only control so much.
You continue to try to hammer out fastball command the best you can.
Any opportunity to throw against the Cardinals is going to be a good one.
For me, it's more about having fun out there and competing and trying to make a difference in the game in every aspect that I can.
I don't think I'm going to dwell on one pitch. You've got to be able to shake that off in the middle of the game.
We're out there pitching for wins, not for stat lines.
I've obviously learned a lot, a lot of mental toughness, learned how to deal with some adversity. Hopefully I'm better for it.
It was a pleasure to play in Houston.
The season is long. You go through aches and pains with your brothers. When it's on the line, you just want to give them - you know, you want to perform. You want to give them a shot to win the game.
Health is key.
You have to win the grinders.
