All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There are still going to be great players that are baseliners. That's the way tennis - courts, balls, everything - has shifted. But everyone has to find their own way to win. Not everyone can run around the baseline for five hours. I can't.
When you're going into a game, you're not expected to hit a home run every game. You're just doing everything proper with proper swings.
I feel that every time I get the ball at the moment I am going to score.
In our league, it comes right down to the end.
It's a very big mental game, all day leading up to warm-ups. You're not sure if your curveball will break, or will you be able to throw it over the plate? It's all negative thoughts going into the game.
My approach every game is to try to keep the ball down and get ground ball outs.
Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he's losing; nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead.
So when you put the kick in and the other runners go past you, it's game over!
In baseball you hit your home run over the right-field fence, the left-field fence, the center-field fence. Nobody cares. In golf everything has got to be right over second base.
Every athlete, I think, would like to play forever. They never want to acknowledge that they've lost a step or they can't quite do what they did before.