When the year starts the objective is to win it all with the team, personal records are secondary.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I would never want to be selected to a team just because I am going to set a record. It's critical to me to earn my way.
I don't know how you keep the world record holder off your team.
I think all of our records are a progression of some sort.
I never played for records. If I had played for records, then I would have had many more runs against my name. If, by your performance, the team wins, then that is what is most gratifying.
If you're successful in what you do over a period of time, you'll start approaching records, but that's not what you're playing for. You're playing to challenge and be challenged.
It's real nice and exciting for me to break the records, but it's more exciting for me to be on a winning team.
Really, throughout my career, what I've done is taken teams with bad records and with every situation I've made them better.
We're not trying to top ourselves with each record, obviously.
We're resolving our differences and we're looking forward to putting out a record next year.
I don't think about goals and records. Competition is what keeps me playing.