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

I think I was the best baseball player I ever saw.

I think I could have become an outstanding professional baseball player, but I don't think I could have reached the heights that I have in football - being one of the very top players in the game, being a world champion.

It was all I lived for, to play baseball.

I wanted to be a professional baseball player.

In high school and college, I was an athlete.

I was a professional baseball player from the time I was drafted out of high school in 1981 until the time I retired in 2003.

I was lucky enough to have the talent to play baseball. That's how I treated my career. I didn't think I was anybody special, anybody different.

I'm not an athlete, I'm a baseball player.

Always wanted to be a Major League player. Loved baseball. Followed it. Loved to play. Plus, I could always hit.