- “For the better part of my twenty years of professional baseball, I was labeled as a player who “over thought” everything. I was called cocky…aloof…introspective…introverted…even, by some of the media guys, Mr. Cool. “If Schmitty would only stop thinking so much,” people close to the team often said, “he might actually enjoy the game.” There’s a lot of truth to that. My obsessive-compulsive-impulsive nature might have held me back: I really didn’t enjoy the game as much as most other players. I made too much out of all the issues that confronted me, from the o-fers to the smell in the dugout.” Clearing the Bases (Schmidt, Mike;Waggoner, Glen) Kindle Location 1107-1112