The pace of play is very important whether I'm watching baseball, tennis or golf.
I love the game, it's the greatest game on earth, that's why I can't understand all of this talk about trying to make the game better. People talk about the high strike zone and changing this and that. Why? To speed up the game? That's the beauty of baseball. There is no time element.
Having a pitch clock, if you have ball-strike implications, that's messing with the fabric of the game. There's no clock in baseball, and there's no clock in baseball for a reason.
People talk about the speed of the English game, but in Italy, referees blow their whistles very often, so you cannot build up speed. In England, referees wave play on, and so it becomes faster.
The game has gotten a lot faster. I was anticipating changes as far back as when I first came into the league, when the spacing was changing, and big guys were playing in different spaces on the floor. But when that change actually happens, and it happens so quickly, it's just amazing.
I don't get it when people complain that baseball games are too long.
At times, European football can be very slow but it speeds up in the final third.
Pace of play has been an issue for golf at all levels for a long time and I'm committed to being a part of the solution, not the problem.
Baseball does become slow sometimes. It's totally unnecessary. The - you can play baseball fast. You can play it slow, and for some reason, we have chosen to play it slow, you know, which is unfortunate, but nothing you can do about.
You can only play one hole at a time.
The English game is not faster than the German game. Perhaps there are a few more sprints. But there is a different style of football here, partially due to the weather.
As for Kaka, he is a superstar... someone who can change the tempo of the game as well as the team.
Time has never really been an issue in Test cricket, especially in the modern game where things naturally move quicker than they have in the past.
When people start talking to me about slow play and how I'm killing the game, I'm doing this and that to the game, that is complete and utter you-know-what.
I'm trying to provide entertainment, and I hope that people can realize that it takes more than just me playing a shot in 30 seconds or 40 seconds for us to call it slow play.
English football is different to Italy and Spain. You don't have that much time to calm down or relax because, all the time, the ball is on fire.
I am among those who firmly believe that a round of golf should not take more than three and a half hours, four at most. Anything longer than that is not a round of golf, it's life in Albania.
The difference between Germany and Italy? I think in Serie A there is more quality and the game is quicker, but in Germany it's similar.
