50 Quotes by Yu Darvish

I feel like, of course, Houston has Asian fans and Japanese fans, and Asian fans live all over the place.

I'm a slow guy.

In life, I think huge failures are extremely important.

Major league hitters have more power. But Japanese hitters are very good at making contact. I don't like either.

I could throw the ball hard, but at this level if you're not accurate, it's easy for batters to light you up with home runs. That's when I started concentrating on making my movements more compact. It just seemed to me that smaller movements would produce the kind of pitching I desired.

I'm not good at math.

Since coming to the major leagues, my passion toward baseball had started to decrease.

Playing in Japan suits me the best, but what I need is in the Majors. I felt that in order to do my job, I needed to change my job location.

Like I'm seeing Chris Sale; he's got a similar pitching style and strikes guys out a lot. Why are people only talking about my strikeouts and all that stuff?... Why not the other guys, who have similar numbers and pitch counts?