As a professional athlete, the small print says there could be a trade at some point in your career. Sometimes expected, sometimes not. You have to be able to handle that.
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Life's short, you know? Especially as an athlete. Your career is very short, and you use the opportunities that you have because you're not going to have them again.
In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea.
It's a completely different thing, but there's so many things I learned from being an athlete that helped me in business. The only risk is not taking the risk. You've got to take that step.
I only had one player in my 33 years of sports that couldn't be traded. He wore No. 23 - and 45 when he played baseball.
A little-known secret is that being a pro athlete is not that great. It's a pretty short lifespan. I know all these parents are out there driving their children to be professionals, but so many pros will tell you, 'No, you don't want to do this.'
I'm not an athlete, I'm a baseball player.
If you got anything to you at all as an athlete and a competitor, you don't care what the circumstances are. You still got competition.
I mean, as an athlete, as a competitor, you have to have that belief in yourself.
In sport, you just have to take what you can get.
No other athlete in any sport has ever had to go through what I have to.
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