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Gerrit Cole Quotes
Gerrit Cole
American
Athlete
Born:
Sep 8
,
1990
Every
Game
Good
Me
Try
You
What I've been able to do is pretty cool, but there is a lot of room for improvement.
Gerrit Cole
Able
Pretty
Been
Lot
Improvement
Room
Cool
Every start is an opportunity to get better and to learn how your body is feeling and what you need to do moving forward. It's been an evolution throughout the year.
Gerrit Cole
You
Moving Forward
Better
Opportunity
Feeling
Year
Every
Evolution
Throughout
Learn
How
Been
Get
Moving
Body
Your
Your Body
Forward
Start
Need
You continue to try to hammer out fastball command the best you can.
Gerrit Cole
Best
You
Try
Out
Command
Continue
Hammer
Fastball
You don't want to let the other team feed off your outward physical demeanor. But at the same time, you can't go out and play this game and not expect to just be angry and be competitive and be excited and have that fire in your belly.
Gerrit Cole
Time
Angry
You
Game
Fire
Just Be
Other
Out
Physical
Excited
Feed
Outward
Demeanor
Go
Off
Expect
Same
Just
Same Time
Want
Your
Team
Play
Belly
Competitive
Nobody's immune from getting beat. If you're not aware of that, you really don't have a great perspective.
Gerrit Cole
Great
You
Perspective
Immune
Beat
Nobody
Getting
Really
Aware
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.
Gerrit Cole
Myself
Complicated
Win
Try
Kind
Give
More
Taking
Make
Ball
Always
Than
Trying
Any
Just
Just Kind
Really
Your
Team
Chance
I certainly wouldn't pay for a ticket to watch a math equation.
Gerrit Cole
Pay
Ticket
Equation
Math
Certainly
Watch
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.
Gerrit Cole
Try
Over
Make
Ball
Go
Pitch
Going
Where
Want
Manipulate
Then
Plate
Muscle
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.
Gerrit Cole
Home
You
Game
Better
Big
Nothing
Pulse
Having
Crowd
Cheer
Than
Get
Scream
Your
Moments
David Price comes and finds me out in the lobby and says, 'Dude, I really enjoy watching you pitch.' I'm just like, 'What's wrong with you? Watch your own games, bro. I just throw fastballs inside. You're painting all over the place, striking the world out.'
Gerrit Cole
Me
You
World
Own
Painting
Enjoy
Lobby
Bro
Striking
Says
Out
Finds
Inside
David
Price
Throw
Wrong
Over
Like
Dude
Pitch
Just
Place
Really
Your
Games
Watch
Watching
I've obviously learned a lot, a lot of mental toughness, learned how to deal with some adversity. Hopefully I'm better for it.
Gerrit Cole
Adversity
Better
Hopefully
Some
Mental
Mental Toughness
Toughness
Obviously
Learned
Deal
How
Lot
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.
Gerrit Cole
You
Game
People
Opportunity
Important
Control
Think
Setting
Everything
Impact
More
Through
Than
Tone
Set
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.
Gerrit Cole
Me
Game
Every
I Can
Out
About
Having
More
Having Fun
Make
Make A Difference
Trying
Difference
Aspect
Fun
Competing
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.
Gerrit Cole
Good
You
Tough
Feeling
Feeling Good
Spot
Doing
Get
Accustomed
Just
Where
Grinding
Keep
Well, I mean, I like to be pretty athletic off the mound in terms of taking care of my job, which is covering first base, fielding bunts in certain situations, fielding slow rollers to the first base and having to communicate and direct traffic.
Gerrit Cole
Communicate
Care
Job
Slow
First
Athletic
Pretty
Direct
Having
Taking
Like
Terms
Well
Covering
Traffic
Off
Mound
Situations
Which
Mean
Certain
Base
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.
Gerrit Cole
You
Game
Think
Able
Shake
Got
Off
Pitch
Going
Dwell
Middle
You try not to pay too much attention to the hype before the game, because you never know what's going to happen.
Gerrit Cole
You
Game
Try
Too Much
Hype
Before
Pay
Too
Never
Attention
Know
Because
Going
Happen
Much
Much Attention
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.
Gerrit Cole
You
Together
Stronger
Other
Nine
See
Some
Give
Through
Put
Advantage
Make
Match
Go
Lineup
Up
Get
Pitches
Different
Hole
Against
Clubs
Your
Figure
Helps
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.
Gerrit Cole
You
Down
Mark
Stay
Count
Got
Go
Pitch
Want
Deep
Keep
Cleaning up that lack of the definition between the two, and then leaning on the four-seam, having it become my primary fastball over my two-seam, it's just benefited me as a whole.
Gerrit Cole
Me
Cleaning
Become
Definition
Having
Primary
Between
Over
Leaning
Up
Lack
Just
Then
Whole
Fastball
Two
I always wanted to play with the older kids because they were better and it was more fun. It was harder, and I failed more, but it was more fun.
Gerrit Cole
Better
Older
Kids
More
Failed
Because
Always
Were
Wanted
Fun
Harder
Play
A lot of my friends at home call me 'Chef G.'
Gerrit Cole
Home
Me
Call
Chef
Lot
Friends
It was a pleasure to play in Houston.
Gerrit Cole
Pleasure
Houston
Play
There's no WAR for being a good teammate, so apparently that means older guys can't get paid.
Gerrit Cole
War
Good
Older
Guys
Get
Being
Means
Paid
Apparently
Teammate
Older Guys
Being able to taste failure, it makes you kind of want to throw up. It makes you just hate the game.
Gerrit Cole
Failure
You
Game
Hate
Kind
Able
Throw
Makes
Up
Taste
Just
Being
Want
We're out there pitching for wins, not for stat lines.
Gerrit Cole
Out
Wins
Lines
Pitching
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