The first game was against Wake Forrest - I'll never forget that game.

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.

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.

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.

But now, I get up every morning and go to the gym because I don't like waking up stiff or in pain and wondering if my hip is going to hurt me.

Really, it's not harder to train for them because once baseball starts you play everyday almost.

I am a firm believer in if you can't get it the old fashioned way, you don't need it.