Max Scherzer Quotes

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Max Scherzer

Profession : Athlete

Birth : July 27, 1984

That's sometimes the hardest thing to do as a professional athlete, because when you get lit up, you wear it, especially as a starting pitcher.

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You have to have the ultimate faith and belief in what you do.

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That's when I'm at my best. When I can throw a fastball over in the count, just throw strikes both in and away, it just sets up all my stuff.

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I know how to pitch.

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Being in the clubhouse, talking to the veterans, talking to guys who have been here, getting to know everybody, getting the personalities, you can actually learn a lot from the other players in the league.

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I'm not throwing a no-hitter Opening Day. It's just not going to happen.

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Put as much pressure on me as possible. I have no qualms handling that, because I expect that out of myself.

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I relish pitching underneath pressure.

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I expect to pitch well and pitch efficiently.

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It's my goal every single year. That's the only goal I really set for myself is to make sure I'm better every single year.

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I've had a better 2017 than I've had 2016, just like a better '16 than '15 and '14.

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Sometimes you have to throw 120 pitches to figure yourself out.

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Sometimes I have to try to remind myself that I don't try to strike out hitters.

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I'm not trying to strike them out, but there are certain situations, when it's an 0-2 count or a 1-2 count, when I want to have a pitch where I want to strike you out.

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My slider's been very, very good to me.

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I don't worry about infield shifts at all - you play where you're gonna play. I'm just gonna pitch my game.

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When you allow stolen bases, that changes the game.

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Perfectionist is sometimes the wrong word... It means like you're never satisfied, or you're upset by every single failure - any type of failure. And so for me, I don't look at failure as necessarily a bad thing as long as I'm able to learn from it and take something from it, so that next time I'm in that situation I know how to succeed.

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There's so many great things I learned at Mizzou. I took a sports psychology class. It was kind of eye-opening on certain different ways to look at things.

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