I never smile when I have a bat in my hands. That`s when you`ve got to be serious. When I get out on the field, nothing`s a joke to me. I don`t feel like I should walk around with a smile on my face.
I never doubted my ability, but when you hear all your life you`re inferior, it makes you wonder if the other guys have something you`ve never seen before. If they do, I`m still looking for it.
It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.
