Gerrit Cole

You've got to go out there and play your tail off every single day and at times during the year it can be tough to do that.

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.

Regardless if your career is short or long, I personally would rather win more often than not.

The most rewarding thing to me is going deep into games, knowing you stood up, and did your job.

I just go out and do my job.

My job is to go out there and just, with whatever I got that day, just give my team the best chance to win.

Trying to get better, always, is my goal.

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.'

Nobody's immune from getting beat. If you're not aware of that, you really don't have a great perspective.

You get into a situation where your back's up against the wall and you don't have any option but to go out swinging, so you might as well go for it.

I've obviously learned a lot, a lot of mental toughness, learned how to deal with some adversity. Hopefully I'm better for it.

I think that's kind of the common theme when you talk about any good team. Not only do you have the talent and the type of players that allow you to win that many games, but you have to win the ugly ones.