They give you a round bat and they throw you a round ball and they tell you to hit it square.

They throw the ball, I hit it. They hit the ball, I catch it.

I'm proud of the fact that I'm the only player to hit a ball completely out of Dodger Stadium.

It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square.

We devote our entire lives to becoming good ball players. We take batting practice until our hands bleed.

The thing about that is, I don't want the ball to hit him. If the throw wasn't going to beat him, I didn't want to allow the ball to ricochet off him and get away and score a run. I was trying to prevent that.