I also tell them that your education can take you way farther than a football, baseball, track, or basketball will - that's just the bottom line.

I was always the fastest and strongest kid in my school so events like the 100 meter and discus throwing attracted me. I could throw the discus for great distance s without the proper spin and throw technique.

I love going out and doing new things.

The only people I know getting in high places by running their mouth are politicians.

Just let me do what I'm doing, and then when all of this is up, then you can say how my career was. Don't try to sum up my career in one or two seasons. Let me finish it first.

Really, it's not harder to train for them because once baseball starts you play everyday almost.

It is better to give a lick than receive one. If anybody got in my way, I tried to run right through them.