The best decisions are taken quickly and well. You can prepare yourself, have all aspects of the game thought through, but the one who shines on the pitch is the one with intuition.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Intuition is what makes the best players.
I think my mindset and my approach is to hit the ball hard, whether it be first pitch or work the count.
You play your surroundings. You pitch accordingly. Not that I drastically try to change my game plan based on the score or the team or stadium, but you have to take everything into consideration.
Decisions need to be made in milliseconds out on the field, and you need to almost know what the other guy is thinking and exactly what he's going to do.
Win or lose, I've been fortunate to be able to pitch deep enough into games to get decisions.
I think I throw the ball down the field pretty well, but I think I'm really accurate and make good decisions.
I only think about the pitch. I want to do great. I want to be one of the best. I want to win titles. I want to achieve things.
It's very important to go pitch-by-pitch and game-by-game and not getting too far ahead of myself. In the past, it was trying to make up for a bad game and thinking ahead and what do I have to do to fix this.
My pitching philosophy is simple - keep the ball way from the bat.
Every decision you make in life, not just on the sporting field - a lot of time and energy goes into it. You think things through before you make decisions and you always think the decision you make at the time is going to be the right one.