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You see so many different personalities and mind-sets in the world of sports, just like you do with actors.

The athlete of today is not an athlete alone. He's the center of a team - doctors, scientists, coaches, agents and so on.

I think that's one thing about the entertainment industry: Athletes want to be actors, and musicians want to be actors, so it all kind of mixes nice together.

I have great admiration for athletes. They are just like actors in a lot of ways. They have tremendous pressures and conflicts. They have to compete, and they can't stay home just because they have a head cold.

I am much more of a geek than I am an athlete.

I've been a sports fan all my life, and like most other actors, I'm convinced I could have been a pro athlete if Hollywood hadn't come calling.

But I like to think an athlete is an athlete.

One of the perks of being an actor is to get to meet athletes that you respect. Especially who played before my time. Brooks Robinson is one of those athletes; they just don't make them any nicer.

The actors in 'Eight Men Out' really know how to play, and the background athletes are all professionals.

Athletes and actors do really crazy things, and we do them under weird circumstances because we love what we do and because we take things in an extreme manner.