I was a pitcher, shortstop and outfielder, and the Yankees tried to sign me out of high school as a first-round draft pick in 1981. I turned them down to go to college.

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

I always wanted to be a pilot.

So, I got a lot of recruitment letters from track.

I'll never worry about not being successful. I'll just take it one day at a time, one season at a time. And play as hard as I can.

When I was a kid, everybody in the neighborhood picked me to be the one in jail or be in the cemetery by the time I was 20.

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.