"I would get really mad sometimes. No, I didn't break any water coolers. I was breaking bats. I would get mad and I was real moody, and I wouldn't talk to anybody for a day or whatever, you know. When you go into a slump, some hitters can handle it but I just couldn't. I couldn't figure out why I couldn't hit these guys. When you play every day, it's not too difficult to go 2 or 3 for 30. It's just easy. You can't explain it. But on the other hand, when you're hot and when you're hitting, the baseball looks like a basketball and everything is going right. No matter where you hit it, it drops in. You just can't wait to play. That's another thing you can't explain - those hot streaks - because you're not doing anything different. It just happens. Slumps and hot streaks. I would get so upset when I was in these slumps. The same pitchers that I was hitting a month ago, and I can't him 'em now. I couldn't figure it out, and it was frustrating and I would get mad." - Bill Schlesinger (Bill Schlesinger Interview, Bill Nowlin Interviewer, 07/23/2003)