Yankees Q&A with outfielder Nick Swisher
Published: Sunday, February 27, 2011
Marc Carig/The Star-Ledger By Marc Carig/The Star-Ledger
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Yankees outfielder Nick Swisher is coming off a strong 2010 season. He hit .288 with 29 home runs and made his first All-Star Game appearance.
TAMPA, Fla. ? He?s coming off the best season of his major-league career and just married a Hollywood starlet named Joanna Garcia. Last week, he even appeared on her show, ?Better With You.? Indeed, it?s good to be Nick Swisher:
1. You obviously enjoy the acting. But what?s the toughest part about it?
I know where my bread and butter is, being a baseball player. You get opportunities like that and it completely takes you out of your comfort zone. I don?t mind going out and playing in front of 55,000 people with a couple million watching on TV. I?m cool with that. But when you put me out there and you?ve got six cameras like 10 feet from you, man, I get a little choked up sometimes.
2. Using some of that new perspective, what?s similar or dissimilar about your job and acting? You are both performers in that sense, right?
Jo and I always talk about being in such competitive businesses that you?ve got to find your magic, you?ve got to find what works for you, when to flip that switch, when to turn it on, because we?re both ... shoot there?s always people right on your heels trying to take your job and stuff like that.
3. How much of that shared performance aspect is behind the bond you and Joanna share?
I think a good amount of it, no doubt. She is my best friend. ... As my father always says, success is nothing unless you have someone to share it with. I found my partner and I could not be more happy, man.
4. How is your dad? (Former big-leaguer Steve Swisher)
He?s great, doing good, just kicking back in West Virginia, just hanging out and doing camps with kids and stuff like that. He loves it. He?s got a little hitting school called ?School of Dreams? because he wants these kids to know that dreams and stuff do come true.
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