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Before, if I wasn't in baseball, I wanted to become a doctor.

I wanted to be a doctor in sports medicine; I was into sailing and all that sort of thing.

I was going to college to be a doctor.

As 17th U.S. Surgeon General, I was privileged to serve as the nation's doctor. I focused much of my time on promoting proven programs and individual steps that lead to good health.

I wanted to be a doctor since I was five.

I see my job as being to facilitate the life of clinical researchers so that they can be more productive, and trying to keep the bureaucracy from getting in their way.

I had done theater during high school and college, but with my life and everything I had going on, I decided to go for the health field, where there were stable jobs.

Prior to my call to the Twelve, I served as a medical doctor and surgeon.

My dad was a physician. As a kid, I remember driving around with him on weekends so he could do his rounds at the hospital and talk to patients. We'd spend time in the car talking about what was going on with them, their stories.

I know a lot of people on the field - players, coaches, managers - are glad that I'm gone.