Well, when you've had Tom Cruise play you, anything else is a comedown.

I'd like to add that negotiating is not something to be avoided or feared - it's an everyday part of life.

A player cannot be part of the training camp experience as a rookie unless he is signed to a contract.

For a generation that gets most of its information off a computer screen (be it Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Twitter or what have you), an athlete has to be very careful about the public/private aspect of that. Be careful not to be overly critical, be careful with use of language, and understand the whole world is watching.

Now we're getting a whole generation of kids who have never had a football team in L.A., so they don't miss it and don't ask for it. It becomes self-perpetuating. They don't know what they're missing.

Then the Angels came in 1961, and I fell in love with them.

But the equipment to protect the players hasn't developed along with that, so now you have more players out with worse injuries, for longer periods of time.