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I had 12 years under my belt of baseball at the amateur level before I got to the big leagues.

I was a very good baseball player and football player as a kid.

I was a professional athlete, the best baseball player in the world at one point.

I wanted to be a professional baseball player.

I always wanted to be a major-league baseball player.

I was 19 years old, pumping gas and going nowhere. I was kind of a high school dropout at that point because I had left school to play hockey, but no one drafted me.

When I was a kid, I wanted to be a baseball player.

My first year of pro ball I played in the Northwest league and made the all-star team, and the next year I played I led the team in hitting and was third or fifth in the league.

I was a baseball player at North Central High School in Spokane, Washington even though I was all-city in basketball, even when I signed a letter of intent to play quarterback at Washington State.