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" As a 9th grader, I competed with the high school kids and out of 600 people, I finished 10th. "
School
High School
Kids
" Back before I injured my hip, I thought going to the gym was for wimps. "
Thought
Hip
Going
" Being the 8th out of 10 kids, and being the one that stayed in trouble, I sort of became a momma's boy. "
Momma
Out
Trouble
" 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. "
New Things
Age
Appearance
" Don't sell yourself short because without that you can't go far in life because after sports the only thing you know is sports and you can't do anything else with that. "
Yourself
Life
Know
" First of all, I really never imagined myself being a professional athlete. "
Myself
Never
Athlete
" I also tell them that your education can take you way farther than a football, baseball, track, or basketball will - that's just the bottom line. "
Way
Football
You
" I always wanted to be a pilot. "
Wanted
Pilot
Always
" I am a firm believer in if you can't get it the old fashioned way, you don't need it. "
Need
Firm
I Am
" If I miss anything about the sport, it's the camaraderie of old teammates. "
Teammates
Anything
Camaraderie
" If you have four years to complete your college education, do it. "
College Education
Education
College
" I guarantee you that's what Jeff Gordon does. He uses everything the fans throw at him to stoke his fire and it drives him to be better at what he does. "
Fans
Better
Everything
" I hate to blow my own horn, but I gave a lot of people fits. "
People
Hate
Horn
" 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. "
Football
Baseball
Life
" 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. "
Just
Person
Problem
" I love going out and doing new things. "
Love
Doing
Out
" In baseball, I was a pitcher, which I hated because there was no action there. "
Because
Which
Hated
" It occurred to me in my junior year of high school. I got my first letter from a big college. I still have that letter to this day - a letter from Indiana. "
Day
School
Me
" I've always played with kids that were five, six, seven years older than me. "
Years
Always
Five
" I've taken up golf in the past five or six years, and most of the time there aren't too many people out there that can drive a ball further than I can. "
People
Golf
I Can
" I was always active - I went from baseball to football. I didn't have time to work out. "
Work
Baseball
Time
" 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. "
School
High School
Down
" 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. "
Stretching
Morning
Go
" I would say my greatest achievement in life right now - my greatest achievement period is - and I'm still trying to achieve it - is to be a wonderful father to my kids. "
Father
Life
Achievement
" My favorite driver is always either the bad guy or the underdog. "
Underdog
Driver
Bad Guy
" My workout was running down fly balls, stealing a base, or running for my life on the football field. "
Down
Fly
My Life
" Really, it's not harder to train for them because once baseball starts you play everyday almost. "
You
Play
Everyday
" Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there. "
You
Goals
High
" So, baseball is probably more physical of the two mentally. "
Physical
Baseball
Mentally
" So, I got a lot of recruitment letters from track. "
Track
Recruitment
Lot
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