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.
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I don't smile much, and I never laugh. If you'd been through what I've been through, you wouldn't be smiling, either.
I never smile unless I mean it.
The bat is gone, but the smile remains.
People always say golfers don't smile. But there is so much psychology in golf so we have to be a bit robotic.
Even when I wasn't playing, I always had a smile on my face because if I acted sad or mad, it wouldn't help me.
Smiles come naturally to me, but I started thinking of them as an art form at my command. I studied all the time. I looked at magazines, I'd practice in front of the mirror and I'd ask photographers about the best angles. I can now pull out a smile at will.
People often expect me to be very serious, but it's not like my record company told me not to smile in photographs, because I was like that anyway.
I come to work with a smile and I leave with a laugh, and I'm so grateful.
I play guys who never smile, and I never stop smiling.
On the field, you have to be aggressive; you're thinking how to get the better of a situation. It's not that I don't laugh on the field. In fact, I think it's very important to laugh, especially when you are angry and aggressive, to just take the tension away, make the moment go away.