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The key for me is movement. When the ball comes into the box, or when the wide players get it, that's where I have to be clever and make my runs. That's where I come alive.

I had an instinct before and maybe now I don't have that instinct as much as knowing what to do, what shots to hit, where to place the ball, things like that.

I have always passed the ball and worked on that part of my game.

When I play, I'm so in the moment that I can't really remember what happened afterwards. It's a rare experience for a thinking person like me.

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.

Obviously, a lot of things play on your mind when you're batting. This might happen and this might not. The best thing you can do when you're batting is not to think too much, and wait for the next ball.

I try to focus on what I can control, and that's just playing hard and playing well.

But through experience I learned to control my body and locate the ball.

I think I started out trying to be very objective about the flow of the play.

One of my tendencies is to let the ball drift too far forward in my stance, and it's something I've been working on with David Leadbetter.