I was nervous before, but once you get out there and start playing baseball, it's not that big of a deal. That's the big thing for us young guys is to feel comfortable out there. Now that I do I expect more of myself.
We've won 14 in a row, and people always want to knock you off. You use that as motivation. You don't want to be the guys who lose.
When you've got guys like Andruw (Jones), Chipper (Jones), Julio (Franco) and Marcus (Giles) in front of you, you have some RBI chances. A pitcher doesn't want to pitch to those guys. He'd rather pitch to a rookie any day.
I know I'm going to take some jabs from the players for this, ... It's part of the deal. ... Between these guys and my family, they're going to rag me and keep me humble.
It's fun because a lot of young guys have come up in this division. We're all trying to do the same thing, and that's win a title.