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I have to play baseball to make me happy. I have to be an athlete. But when it's all said and done, I'll be a normal father. A normal-type house man.

Throughout my journey in basketball, I always have someone to talk to in my father. I know how hard he had to work as an athlete.

Growing up, around the dinner table my father and I didn't talk sports. We talked business.

But I was very much into sports when I was a child.

I grew up trying to be like my idols, and one of the main people in my life was my father. He played football, and when your father is telling stories about the game he played... Everybody wants to be like their father.

My daughter's mother and I are no longer dating, and the people I'm most likely to date are those around me, who are athletes.

My sister is totally my dad's daughter because she loves sports.

My father thought sport was something fun - he didn't know it was a way to make money. Then I won a Mercedes at the world championships and I gave it to him. From the moment it arrived my father said: 'Good, you can support not just yourself but me too'.

If you look at any superior athlete, you will find a strong parental influence. Parents introduce their children to a sport, and then they support them.

I'm a character and a sports entertainer and a wrestler, but I'm also a father and a husband and a provider.