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

I grew up in a tough neighborhood where a lot of kids were older than me. The older kids decided to pick me on me starting when I was about 6 and it didn't take me long to take a stand for myself.

You practice Monday through Friday in college, or Monday through Saturday in the pro's - and then you just go out and knock somebody's head off.

Well, back when I was training, probably the only nutritious thing on the market was Gatorade - that's all that we knew.

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 am my own person. What I'm doing, I'm happy with it. I'm doing what I want to.

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.