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I know what I need to do to prepare myself, and I try to do the best I can to take care of my body and prolong my peak years as a baseball player.

I wanted to be a professional baseball player.

There's a lot of things more than baseball that I want to do.

Young players need to know how to take care of themselves for life after baseball.

All I want to do is play baseball.

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 always wanted to be a major-league baseball player.

It was all I lived for, to play baseball.

I wanted to play baseball ever since I was 5 years old.