Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there.

It occurred to me in my junior year of high school. I got my first letter from a big college. I still have that letter to this day - a letter from Indiana.

In baseball, I was a pitcher, which I hated because there was no action there.

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.

Don't sell yourself short because without that you can't go far in life because after sports the only thing you know is sports and you can't do anything else with that.

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.

My confidence and drive to go play came when I realized how gifted I was at such a young age and how much bigger my build was than the kids my age.