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I tremendously value wins.
It was a pleasure to play in Houston.
A lot of my friends at home call me 'Chef G.'
You can't find a bad count to throw a curveball.
You know in a playoff atmosphere anything can happen.
We're out there pitching for wins, not for stat lines.
We definitely like to celebrate the wins, that's for sure.
I certainly wouldn't pay for a ticket to watch a math equation.
Every good team is going to have a good culture in the clubhouse.
There's a lot of different aspects of the game that I've fine-tuned.
You continue to try to hammer out fastball command the best you can.
It would be irresponsible for me to comment on somebody else's opinions.
Base runners in postseason games are kind of tough to deal with at times.
Any opportunity to throw against the Cardinals is going to be a good one.
I'm a sucker for Wrigley, so I feel I'll probably be a sucker for Fenway, too.
As a competitor, you want to pitch against the elite guys and really good guys.
I try to show up and do my job and get my work in every day, keep pressing forward.
What I've been able to do is pretty cool, but there is a lot of room for improvement.
There's going to be ups and downs throughout the whole year. You can't get frustrated.
It feels good to be able to contribute, eat innings, provide some rest for the bullpen.
You're always just so inspired to get in the game and try to contribute any way you can.
Verlander is a guy every right-handed power pitcher looks up to since the beginning of time.
There's no WAR for being a good teammate, so apparently that means older guys can't get paid.
Regardless if your career is short or long, I personally would rather win more often than not.
You've got to try to close every inning out, take it one inning at a time, one batter at a time.
The most rewarding thing to me is going deep into games, knowing you stood up, and did your job.
I try to get early contact and keep it on the ground. I like to keep the ball down as much as I can.
I had a great time at school. The experience was quite fulfilling, especially going to the World Series.
Nobody's immune from getting beat. If you're not aware of that, you really don't have a great perspective.
When you dream as a little kid, you dream about storybook endings and storybook players and scenarios like that.
A lot of these dips that you go through in the season, it's about persisting through the process and trusting it.
You try not to pay too much attention to the hype before the game, because you never know what's going to happen.
I've got to keep my pitch count down. If you want to go deep into ballgames, you have to stay under that 100 mark.
I think there's a quiet aggression that you need to have, that presence that you have on the mound, the poise, you know.
There's a human element here you start to lose when you start rattling off the best mathematical equation to get the out.
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.
I've obviously learned a lot, a lot of mental toughness, learned how to deal with some adversity. Hopefully I'm better for it.
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.
In an industry where you don't always get to see your family as much as you would like, getting to hug your mom after the game is nice.
I've just got to keep doing what I'm doing, because from all the compliments I've received so far, it sounds like I'm on the right track.
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.
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.
There is nothing better than having your home crowd cheer you on and scream with you in big moments and get the crowd in the pulse of the game.
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.
When you start lifting weights in the offseason in like November, you're like, 'Ah, I'm going to get this thing up so I can get to the World Series.'
If I'm not going to make the pitch, then so be it. I'm not going to try to manipulate the ball or muscle the ball over the plate where I want it to go.
When you're spinning a two-seam, getting on the side of the ball to get more run or sink can be good, but it can really be detrimental to your four-seam.
I was hurt in 2016, and it made me look at longevity and sustainability. The stuff that I was doing wasn't working for me long term. So, I had to make a change.
You have more of an opportunity than people think to impact a game through the tone that you can set. You can't control everything, setting that tone is important.
When you're more comfortable out there, you start seeing different things, relaxing more, being able to trust your pitches more and not try to overdo things as much.