If you live your life the right way, you work hard, you go about things the right way, eventually something good's going to come of it.

All the stuff about who's hitting behind you and who's hitting in front of you-it plays a little bit of a part. But you can't just base your approach off that because you'll end up getting beat in the end.

Any way I can produce runs and keep runs off the board for the other team, that's what I'm going to try to do.

If you live your life the right way, you work hard, you go about things the right way, eventually something good's going to come of it.

The first couple months, I was hitting the ball hard but had some awful, awful luck. You stay positive, keep grinding out some at-bats, get a couple to fall through, get a little confidence going and keep going from there.

When I start thinking in the batter's box, that's when I get into trouble.

Every player feels like they can play at this level. Not every player gets an opportunity. I was fortunate to get an opportunity. Everything's kind of worked out real well.