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.

Growing up as a kid, the back of my house faced a little community airport about four or five miles from my house.

Don't plan to repent at the 11th hour - you may die at 10:30.

Back before I injured my hip, I thought going to the gym was for wimps.

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.

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.

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.