This thing is not going to drag on, let me just put it that way.

You let that go by, all you're doing is creating more animosity on the other side. Hey, the guy gets hit after hitting a three-run homer, nothing happens. ... I think actually he let them get away with something there.

Pitchers did me a favor when they knocked me down. It made me more determined. I wouldn't let that pitcher get me out. They say you can't hit if you're on your back, but I didn't hit on my back. I got up.

He is a warrior, and I am not going to take him out there and interrupt things out there on that field.

Not really. It wasn't that easy. I went about 0-for-23 sometime after that.

It's not a task beyond his reach. He is capable of doing that.