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I never got into sports at all until I was in my early 20s, after my music career got going.

Ever since I was young, I played sports.

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

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

My dad always played sports. He played football. I always wanted to play football because my dad played football, but my mom never wanted me to play football because she said she couldn't take me getting hit.

By the time I was 8 years old, sports had pretty much taken over my life.

I was just a normal athlete. My mother tried to spark something in me. She was an athlete in high school before she got pregnant with my older brother. She was 16, and that was it for her when it came to track and her education.

I was a sports kid.

My mom, she wasn't like a baseball mother who knew everything about the game. She just wanted me to be happy with what I was doing.