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I'm not good at math.
I can throw strikes any time.
America is very tolerant of mistakes.
My average against hitters is pretty good.
My kids and wife love Chicago, especially the kids.
When a player cheats, you can't have a gold medal, right?
Personally, do I feel like an All-Star? I don't think so.
I had bad days, and that means somebody else had a great day.
On a scale of 1 to 10, I can bring a 10 to any important game.
I want to remind people with dogs that they are your responsibility.
I would like to come back in the World Series. And I want to pitch better.
It is my biggest regret that I gave up 10 runs on my last outing as a Ranger.
If I were to return to Japan, Nippon Ham would be my top choice. No doubt about that.
Since coming to the major leagues, my passion toward baseball had started to decrease.
Even if I was tipping my pitches, I could have thrown pitches good enough to not be hit.
I want to focus more on my pitches, not on the tempo. After that, I felt more comfortable.
I want to throw a faster fastball. I want a sharper curve. I want to improve all my pitches.
The Houston Astros are an organization I really respect and they have a lot of great players.
I'm trying to throw more curves because I'm always throwing fastball, slider, fastball, slider.
I am a baseball player and I enjoy getting batters out and that is what I want to continue doing.
I feel like, of course, Houston has Asian fans and Japanese fans, and Asian fans live all over the place.
Major league hitters have more power. But Japanese hitters are very good at making contact. I don't like either.
America has a culture of not saying sorry. I think there are a lot of people who will never admit they're wrong.
At some point, somebody will get the coronavirus, I think. If somebody will get it, I think MLB will do the same thing as NBA.
Living in this world, we all just want to be happy. And I don't think it is right to be denied that opportunity over a single mistake.
I feel that if I absolve myself and say it was the Astros' fault I was bad in Game 7, in the World Series, I can't develop as a person.
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.
I'm a big guy, right? But I began to realize that by actually using my body like a big guy, I couldn't control my pitches the way I wanted to.
A couple of Astros players told me I was tipping pitches, but now it comes out they were stealing signs. Was I tipping, or were they stealing?
When people boo you, they're telling you, 'We don't like you.' It's not a good feeling to get that from the fans of an organization you respect so much.
When I saw the generosity of spirit of the people who live in America and their willingness to give second chances, it had a very wonderful effect on me.
I had told my wife that I was thinking of retiring at the end of the year. I was thinking I didn't want to do it anymore, but then I was traded to the Dodgers.
I don't want to be in the clubhouse, if I have the coronavirus or something like that, coming into the clubhouse and spread to everybody, that's not good, right?
There were a small number of voices that said, 'Darvish only cares about strikeouts.' Although I may have had strikeouts in my mind, fans, team, teammates and team staff were always my top priority.
If you ask me if I got hit in Game 7 because they stole signs, I don't think so. The Astros have great players who don't have to do that. So I think that whether or not they stole signs, the results wouldn't have changed.
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?
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.
Every morning when I woke up, I would pray, 'I have to throw today, please let there be no pain.' Those were very gloomy days. Meanwhile, the atmosphere around me had become, 'Is he faking an injury?' 'Is it a mental problem?' Those words made it extremely difficult for me to stop and rest, and it really took a toll on me emotionally.