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I had 12 years under my belt of baseball at the amateur level before I got to the big leagues.

I always thought that there was going to be life after baseball, and so I designed that in my life I would have other interests after baseball that I would be able to step into. And I didn't realize the grip that baseball had on me and on my family.

I had an addiction to play baseball.

I'm glad that I just played baseball, because I'm sure I had a much longer baseball career than I would've had a football career. I did miss football, but I didn't miss some of the injuries from football.

It was so difficult for the fans to understand my problems with baseball.

It was all I lived for, to play baseball.

I was a baseball fan myself, I wanted to play baseball.

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 a professional athlete, the best baseball player in the world at one point.