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I have played old ladies since I was 17 years old, and very convincingly. I've always looked funny and was too tall to play the leads and so had to play the grandmothers.

When I joined a baseball club, the boys of my own age, and a little older, played in the first nine, those younger than myself played in the second, and those still younger in the third, and I played with them.

I got into pro ball at 18 and played until I was almost 39, non-stop.

I was a very good baseball player and football player as a kid.

I played a lot of football when I was younger. I'm a good receiver, actually.

Well, I wanted to play twenty years in the major leagues. I never made it twenty though. I played nineteen.

I've always played with kids that were five, six, seven years older than me.

You must remember that anyone under 30 - especially a ballplayer - is an adolescent. I never got close to being an adult until I was 32. Even though I was married and had a son at 20, I was a kid at 32, living at home with my parents. Sure, I was a manager then. That doesn't mean you're grown up.

I've played quite a few good guys.

Is my ability what it was at, say, 25 or 30 years old? Probably not, but I like to compete. I like to go out and play the game hard.