When you make that crossover from life to real life, when you're not treated as a child anymore but as a man, and you are no longer given the benefit of the doubt, it takes some courage to face that.

I think I have a tendency to look at things subjectively rather than objectively when I reflect on my experience.

Growing up with two sisters, you either play by yourself or play Barbie with them. I played by myself.

As an athlete, you figure you work your whole life to have what you have, and to be able to show the world what you have and how proud you are of it, that's always fun.

I would drive home and see people wearing my No. 34 jersey and wonder why, because I didn't feel worthy of that. And all the time I just knew people were staring at me, talking about me everywhere I went.

When I retired, I felt that I lived more in that year than I had the previous 27 years of my life.

In therapy, I see myself in the mirror differently.