Can I throw harder than Joe Wood? Listen mister, no man alive can throw any harder than Smokey Joe Wood.
They did it to try and belittle me, to try and to take away my pride. But I went through the whole system with them. And at the end, I - I wanted the public to know that I was okay, even though I was hurting.
I share something in common with Norman Rockwell and, for that matter, with Walt Disney, in that I really like to make people happy.