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I did enjoy football, but the injury factor for me, you know, I had so many issues. I don't know how long my career would've been.

I don't wish that I was playing football. I love baseball, and the way I play is like it's my last day ever playing it. I do like football, but you've got to respect that it's not like baseball.

I always played sports when I was young. I played football and baseball for eight years. I loved football.

I was a hockey player. I played hockey forever. That was my life and my job until I got injured, so I get sports, and I get the sports atmosphere, the feeling around other athletes, but I never played football.

I miss baseball.

Football was a wonderful experience for me. It was a means of, oh, I don't know, sustaining for much of my youth. In times of trouble, I've always had football. I always knew I was a football player. And that was a comfort on many occasions.

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 a great time with baseball growing up. I was lucky to grow up with it and to learn.

Football has always been a big part of my life. Almost from the day I was born, playing and coaching football were all I really ever wanted to do.

It was all I lived for, to play baseball.