33 Quotes by Jacob deGrom

There's been a couple of guys who have gotten me. I used to say Adrian Gonzalez. He's a good lefty hitter; he's hit a few home runs off of me. They were a couple of mistakes, so if you make your pitches, you're more likely to have a better outcome.

The offseason is when you try to gain strength. You have 162 games during the year, so you've got to pick and choose the times work out.

You're going to work out and try to maintain the strength you gain in the offseason, and then you work to gain after the season is over.

Play a little light catch and only some short sprints for me. Then on the day-of, it's just getting loosened up and ready to go out there and pitch.

I think in high school and college, you don't really know what your routine is going to be; you're still trying to come up with it.

You'll hear 'Hippie,' or, 'Get a haircut.' I like it. I think it's funny because they think we've never heard that before. So, like, good one.

When I'm sleeping, if it gets in my face, sometimes it'll wake me up.

When you have your best stuff, it's a lot easier to pitch.

When I watch video, I try to watch the good starts so I can see how my mechanics are in those. Every once in a while, I'll look at video starts that I struggled, and sometimes in those, there is no mechanical problems; it's just, didn't have good stuff that day.