I was the type of guy that used to get up in the morning and go out and just out run everybody on the field without stretching or warming up or anything.

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 struck out with two men on base. I was so angry, so frustrated, I turned and without even thinking about it, snapped my bat over my thigh. The bat split right in half. Afterward, reporters asked me if it was the first time I'd ever broken a bat over my thigh. "I broke an aluminum bat over my knee in college," I said. (I was just kidding).

Whenever I wasn't watching the planes, I was playing community baseball, football, or something like that.

The way strength and conditioning has helped me now is that I make it a point to go to the gym everyday if I can.

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

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.