I don't have to get a pitch down the middle. If I like the pitch-even if it's 15 inches off the plate, and that's the pitch I wanted-I'm swinging.

I tried to use batting gloves at the beginning of every spring training up until 1999. It just didn't feel good.

I just have to come back tomorrow and try again, ... I have to look at the ball and keep swinging.

I'm not as good as I want to be.

I think it looked like I was a little more aggressive than I was, ... I swing at bad pitches anyway, but I was swinging at even more bad pitches and missing. It looked worse. But I was thinking about [the milestone], no doubt about it.

What I do is see the ball, hit the ball.

I might be shy, but in the field, where I have to do my work, I do it. I let my bat speak for myself.