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I'd worked so hard that by the time I was 20, I wanted to play hard. And I did that really well.

What I think I've been able to do well over the years is play with pain, play with problems, play in all sorts of conditions.

Every year I try to grow as a player and not get stuck in a rut. I try to improve my game in every way possible. But that trait is not something I've worked on, it's part of me.

At 49, I can say something I never would have said when I was a player, that I'm a better person because of my failures and disgraces.

I don't know how many years I can still play. I have to listen to my body and see how it feels.

I don't want to play 10 years and then die of a heart attack when I'm 40.

I look at it this way. I'm not putting age limits on what I can do. As long as I can do the job to help the team win and feel like I'm playing at a high level, which I feel I can do for a long while, I'm going to play no matter what my age is.

You retire, but you're still aching to play. But in order to play, you have to resist certain temptations, and train hard. And I just didn't have the desire to do that any more.

I think I've really stepped outside the box in the way I try to train, eat, hydrate, the cognitive brain games I play on a daily or weekly basis to try to build up some durability within my body, within my brain, to be able to go out there and play at a high level at age 38.

I could be playing high school until I'm, like, 30 or something, at the rate I'm growing.