So, baseball is probably more physical of the two mentally.
But now in this day and age, people are more prone to go out to try new things to enhance their performance on the field - to enhance their physical appearance.
Just let me do what I'm doing, and then when all of this is up, then you can say how my career was. Don't try to sum up my career in one or two seasons. Let me finish it first.
Football is easy if you're crazy as hell.
If I miss anything about the sport, it's the camaraderie of old teammates.
I have been a fan all my life, but now I have been out of football for over 10 years, and out of baseball for a little over six years and I don't go to games.
I have no problem with my hips - I can still do the things that I used to do. I can run, I'm just not the fastest person on the field anymore.
You practice Monday through Friday in college, or Monday through Saturday in the pro's - and then you just go out and knock somebody's head off.
My confidence and drive to go play came when I realized how gifted I was at such a young age and how much bigger my build was than the kids my age.
When I was a kid, everybody in the neighborhood picked me to be the one in jail or be in the cemetery by the time I was 20.
The way strength and conditioning has helped me now is that I make it a point to go to the gym everyday if I can.
Back before I injured my hip, I thought going to the gym was for wimps.
I was always active - I went from baseball to football. I didn't have time to work out.
Back when I was training, probably the only nutritious thing on the market was Gatorade-that's all that we knew. But now in this day and age, people are more prone to go out to try new things to enhance their performance on the field-to enhance their physical appearance. I am a firm believer in if you can't get it the old fashioned way, you don't need it. You have a lot of people on the run and really don't have time to sit down and eat a balanced meal.
I was a pitcher, shortstop and outfielder, and the Yankees tried to sign me out of high school as a first-round draft pick in 1981. I turned them down to go to college.
So you have to be more mentally focused in baseball.
I wanted to stay close enough so mom could see me play - where I could go home if I needed to.
I was the type of guy that used to get up in the morning and go out and just out run everybody on the field without stretching or warming up or anything.
I always wanted to be a pilot.
Whenever I wasn't watching the planes, I was playing community baseball, football, or something like that.
I have always been an avid bike rider. Even before I became an avid bike rider, I was an avid bike stealer when I was a kid. I am very educated on bikes.
Really, it's not harder to train for them because once baseball starts you play everyday almost.
I hate to blow my own horn, but I gave a lot of people fits.
But now, I get up every morning and go to the gym because I don't like waking up stiff or in pain and wondering if my hip is going to hurt me.
I was always an Alabama fan growing up, but when the Alabama recruiter told me I would probably not be able to play until the end of my sophomore year, or the beginning of my junior year.
