Jake Arrieta Quotes

Jake Arrieta

Profession : Athlete

Birth : March 6, 1986

You want to be paid in respect to how your peers are paid.

Jake Arrieta

The contract stuff will work itself out. If we keep winning, those kinds of things all work themselves out in time.

Jake Arrieta

Guys want to be compensated fairly.

Jake Arrieta

If I have to leave, I don't want to leave without another ring.

Jake Arrieta

Dry deliveries. That helps when I get the ball back in my hand - like I never really stopped throwing. The goal for me is to increase arm strength.

Jake Arrieta

The numbers are hard to control.

Jake Arrieta

Immersing myself in the Wrigleyville area was special to me and my family.

Jake Arrieta

There's not many guys that can pitch at the top of the rotation floating around the league.

Jake Arrieta

I'm probably throwing down close to 10,000 calories. And then I don't eat for three or four days.

Jake Arrieta

Sometimes, when I break my hands, I kind of go too far behind my body, and what that will do, wherever my right arm's going to go, my left arm's going to go.

Jake Arrieta

It's just a continuous process, trying to work through it, trying find that comfort zone and go from there. That's kind of where I'm at. I feel pretty good about where I'm at.

Jake Arrieta

I had great teammates. Adam Jones took great care of me. Mike Gonzalez took good care of me.

Jake Arrieta

I had teammates like Chris Davis. Manny Machado was really young and such a good kid. Seeing his development, it's ridiculous. He's going to get bigger. He's going to get stronger. He's going to get even better.

Jake Arrieta

I wouldn't change anything I went through for the world, because it got me here.

Jake Arrieta

People have confidence in you. It's easy to have confidence in somebody that's going out there every night and giving the team a chance to win.

Jake Arrieta

How many people can do what I do, anyways? A handful of guys?

Jake Arrieta

You can struggle for a little while. It's going to happen. If a guy hits .200 for a while, it doesn't mean he's a .200 hitter.

Jake Arrieta

Everyone wants to have a career year, but if I stick to what I'm doing, I like my chances. I'll be fine.

Jake Arrieta

It's one thing to have a scouting report and not be able to execute it, and it's completely different if you're able to kind of work your way through that report, attack guys certain ways, use different sequences, and be effective with them.

Jake Arrieta

I've been through a lot in my career, and the failure that I've gone through makes me really appreciate the moments of success much more.

Jake Arrieta