Jake Arrieta Quotes
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You play your surroundings. You pitch accordingly. Not that I drastically try to change my game plan based on the score or the team or stadium, but you have to take everything into consideration.
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Hamstring flexibility and hip mobility for me are the two most important factors on the field.
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Just having two kids now, regardless of what happens in the field, they're there to receive you with open arms every night after every game.
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I wouldn't change anything I went through for the world, because it got me here.
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I've had some incredible experiences with this organization. I owe a lot to this team and this organization and the ownership. I don't want to see that time come to an end, my time as a Cub.
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If people call into question my work ethic, that's fine, because I know what I'm doing behind the scenes.
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With a runner at second base with nobody out, you're trying to punch somebody out. You understand when there are guys in scoring position; hitters like to be aggressive early.
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Everyone wants to have a career year, but if I stick to what I'm doing, I like my chances. I'll be fine.
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Time flies really quickly. It feels like only a few months ago that I was traded over here and started my career as a Cub in 2013.
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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.
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It's going to come down to executing, trying to keep guys off balance and disrupting timing. That's something you can do regardless of how many times you face a lineup or face certain hitters.
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I've always been in good shape. I just sucked early in my career from a statistical perspective.
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As far as my mental approach, I really think it's just knowing that the past is really irrelevant.
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There's food and supplements that you can take legally that will better your body and help you stay healthy. Shortcuts are something that's always been around all sports, but as a union, we're trying to do the best we can to weed those guys out of the game.
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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.
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That's why I got into Pilates: because I can reduce the stress and impact in my joints while still being able to increase strength and flexibility, and it's going to pay dividends.
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That's one of my focuses, is to increase my flexibility and strength and have greater range of motion.
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There's plenty of situations where we'll come up with guys on base, less than two outs, and those are opportunities for us to help ourselves out.
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We're tested eight, nine times a year - blood tested, urine tested, so I mean, if people think I'm doing something, tell them to increase the testing.
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Guys want to be compensated fairly.
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I want to shoot an elk with a bow. Mind you, I've never hunted in my life. But I feel like if I'm ever going to hunt, it's going to be with a bow. I just feel like a bow requires more skill.
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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.
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As a kid, you put yourself in those positions. Bases loaded, two outs, you're at the plate. That's kind of the way I envision it as a kid playing whiffle ball or whatever the case was.
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I personally don't think guys should get multiple chances when guys fail a steroid test.