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You know raising a family in the lifestyle of a professional athlete can be very difficult.

Baseball life is a tough life on the family.

We want to enjoy our families and the hype leading up to the game.

I have a fantastic team, and it's much easier having children, because that creates a natural limit.

You can't always have the best team. It's always a compromise.

If you told me to choose between family and football, then it is no choice. I take family, of course, like everyone. But I prefer to keep it private, and that's it. I just focus on the football.

Our teams always play hard.

Well family is obviously the most important. There was a time when I thought football was the most important.

I was brought up to believe that it's family first. Of all the people my parents knew, the family was most important. You always turn to your family, and the family supports you. We do what we can to support our young and go and see the grandchildren if they're doing plays at school and their sports events.

When you're part of the first family, your life tends to get played out in front of the whole nation.