Name: アイ・アム・セカンド® - クレイトン・カーショウ (I am Second® - Clayton Kershaw)
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When you're out there in the heat of the moment and your pitching, it's a

現在進行形

You're saying, don't throw a ball, don't give up a hit,

The harder you want to control something, the more it gets out of

And you want to get the outside corner of the pitch.

If all you think about is, I'm going to hit that, aim it right there, hit

it right there, that's the last place it's going to go go.

But when you have in the back of your mind where you're supposed to throw

it, and then just say, I'm going to throw it as hard as I can, right at

that glove-- if you just say that, it will be around there more often than

not, if you've done the preparation, and the mechanics and

The more you try and grip control of your life, the more God's going to

He's going to make things go to where you have to rely on Him.

If there was something that needed to get done, I'd rather do it myself than

Just stuff that I couldn't control, that I was worried about.

My mom and I were trying to figure out how college was going to be a feasible

You know, it's going to be so expensive that I can't

When I relinquished all control of my life was the day I got drafted.

That was something that even talking about now chokes me up, just because

it's just amazing the providence God had in my life.

I never thought in a million years I'd ever get to play professional

baseball, get to play in the major leagues, get to live out my dream.

Since I was a kid, that's all I ever wanted to do.

But at the same time, if you're playing baseball, why

Is to have good success on the field and be a Hall-of-Famer

For me, it's about the legacy you leave off the field.

It's about how many people can I affect through the platform

I got to go to Africa last year with my wife, Ellen.

She's been working with some kids over there that she's gotten

One particularly has a touched her heart, and her name is Hope.

You see the cloud in her eyes and know she's scared.

Ellen just gave the quickest version of the Good News that

And that's all it takes for people in Zambia.

It's like they've been waiting their whole lives for somebody

We just started a home called Hope's Home, in honor of

And it's going to be an orphanage for about 12 kids.

And hopefully within the next year, we'll see the orphanage built, and

We're just doing the part that God gave us.

You can't think, oh, yeah, we can change this whole country ourselves.

and one more reason to let go of control.

Playing for the Dodgers in LA is just saying that.

The prayer I say before I go out there and pitch is not "God, let me win

today," or "God, help me pitch good." It's "God, just be with me."

With all the different people and different cultures and different

religions, you can just kind of become one of the crowd.

You've got to keep reminding yourself that you're supposed to stand out.

And you're supposed to act boldly in your faith.

It's definitely not easy, not a great conversation starter sometimes.

Clayton Kershaw led the National League in victories, ERA, and strikeouts in 2011.

He is he youngest pitcher to win the Cy Young Award since 1985.

Whether it be pitching on a baseball mound or living my life outside of the

baseball field, it's giving up my life to God that really