I don't really care about being accepted now. I wish I had been like that earlier.

People ask me all the time would I like to still be playing? No. I'm glad I played when I played.

It's obvious that my brain isn't what it used to be.

I got a family I got to answer to. I got kids my older parents and my preachers and everybody.

I decided to write a book primarily because people talked me into it.

I kept hearing I'd be traded to San Francisco. Man I would love that. I even went so far as to go into the locker room singing 'I left my heart in San Francisco'. Nobody laughed or said a word. I figured maybe I'd get my wish

You can't dodge them all. I got hammered plenty of times through the years. But you just get up and keep playing. I can tell you from experience, though. Sometimes it hurts like hell.