But now, I get up every morning and go to the gym because I don't like waking up stiff or in pain and wondering if my hip is going to hurt me.

So, baseball is probably more physical of the two mentally.

I've always played with kids that were five, six, seven years older than me.

I hate to blow my own horn, but I gave a lot of people fits.

I took a lot of things for granted - especially how I treated my body.

I taught myself how to pole vault in one day. The next day I entered a meet to pole vault and won it all for the state of Alabama.

Baseball and football are very different games. In a way, both of them are easy. Football is easy if you're crazy as hell. Baseball is easy if you've got patience. They'd both be easier for me if I were a little more crazy - and a little more patient.