I was lucky enough to have the talent to play baseball. That's how I treated my career. I didn't think I was anybody special, anybody different.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I was a professional athlete, the best baseball player in the world at one point.
I think I could have become an outstanding professional baseball player, but I don't think I could have reached the heights that I have in football - being one of the very top players in the game, being a world champion.
I was a very good baseball player and football player as a kid.
Always wanted to be a Major League player. Loved baseball. Followed it. Loved to play. Plus, I could always hit.
It was all I lived for, to play baseball.
I was also very lucky to be a teammate of two of the greatest players to have ever played the game. I learned very early on by playing for Frank Robinson and with Henry Aaron that even the greatest players in the game were just one of the guys.
I was a pretty normal high school kid. I just loved to play sports and had opportunities, and the Lord blessed me with talent, and I just tried to take advantage of it.
I was born to play baseball.
My father loved baseball and he cultivated my talent. I don't think he ever had any doubt in his mind that I would play professional baseball someday.
I wasn't ever good enough to be on the baseball team and that sort of stuff.