It's really hard to be consistent, and you have to know your body and know yourself.
America has a culture of not saying sorry. I think there are a lot of people who will never admit they're wrong.
In life, I think huge failures are extremely important.
I want to focus more on my pitches, not on the tempo. After that, I felt more comfortable.
I want to throw a faster fastball. I want a sharper curve. I want to improve all my pitches.
I feel that if I absolve myself and say it was the Astros' fault I was bad in Game 7, in the World Series, I can't develop as a person.
The Houston Astros are an organization I really respect and they have a lot of great players.
I had bad days, and that means somebody else had a great day.
I would like to come back in the World Series. And I want to pitch better.
America is very tolerant of mistakes.
When a player cheats, you can't have a gold medal, right?
Even if I was tipping my pitches, I could have thrown pitches good enough to not be hit.
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.
I talk to Kyle Hendricks a lot.
I don't need much motivation.
I'm never satisfied until I win all the games and have an ERA of 0.00.
On a scale of 1 to 10, I can bring a 10 to any important game.
When I look at my numbers, I don't give up a lot of hits.
My average against hitters is pretty good.
Personally, do I feel like an All-Star? I don't think so.
Since coming to the major leagues, my passion toward baseball had started to decrease.
I almost feel like I grew up and was raised in America now, because I'm so comfortable here.
I am a baseball player and I enjoy getting batters out and that is what I want to continue doing.
I want to become the type of pitcher any one in the world can say is the world's best pitcher.
I don't want to be in the clubhouse, if I have the coronavirus or something like that, coming into the clubhouse and spread to everybody, that's not good, right?
I want to remind people with dogs that they are your responsibility.
Kids used to say stuff all the time about how I was different.
I can throw strikes any time.
My kids and wife love Chicago, especially the kids. Yu Darvish