You don't have to try to hurt people and be angry to be an athlete.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Being an athlete helps me get those grandiose emotions of pleasure and pain that are involved in sports.
I was very fortunate to play sports. All the anger in me went out. I had to do what I had to do. If you stay angry all the time, then you really don't have a good life.
I mean, as an athlete, as a competitor, you have to have that belief in yourself.
I'm an athlete. I go out there and fight my heart out.
I know that I was put on this planet to be an athlete.
But I like to think an athlete is an athlete.
I'm not an athlete, I'm a baseball player.
I worry when athletes are simply used by their universities to produce revenue, to make money for them, nothing to show at the back end. I grew up with a lot of players who had very, very tough lives after the ball started bouncing for them. And that's why I'm going to continue to fight.
As an athlete, you are literally programmed to endure a specific amount of pain.
When you are an athlete, it's difficult to take time off and say you want to come back without everyone judging you and attacking you.