It's easy to see why pitchers respect McGwire. If you hit behind him, they're saying that they don't respect you. You have to change their thinking.
My only goal is to play 162 games and help this team win. If I can do that, everything will take care of itself.
People always ask me how I can hit the ball so far, and I say, 'I just swing.' It's the coaches who first told me I had good bat speed. I was just swinging, and I guess it was fast. I'm pretty fast at everything.
Most of the places I've been, I've been a main piece of the puzzle.
I'm no different than others with cancer. I just happen to play professional baseball. I'm part of those statistics that cancer has touched as well.
I don't think any player lives up to his potential, because people out there put you so high on a pedestal, you'll never be as good as they expect.
