“A lot of them need translators, you know Spanish, it could be Mandarin, Japanese, the list goes on and on and on,” Smith continued. “If you are a sport trying to ingratiate yourself at the American public, the way Major League Baseball is because of the problems that you’ve been having to deal with in terms of improving the attractiveness of the sport. It helps if you spoke the English language, it doesn’t mean anything more than that. … In the United States, all I was saying is that when you’re a superstar, if you can speak the English language, then guess what? That’s going to make it that much easier, less challenging to promote the sport.”
