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Really, it's not harder to train for them because once baseball starts you play everyday almost.

In baseball, I was a pitcher, which I hated because there was no action there.

I was always active - I went from baseball to football. I didn't have time to work out.

So you have to be more mentally focused in baseball.

So, baseball is probably more physical of the two mentally.

Whenever I wasn't watching the planes, I was playing community baseball, football, or something like that.

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 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.

I'm human and I've played my butt off for ten years. I'm not a loafer, I'm not a jerk, I'm a baseball player.

A baseball swing is a very finely tuned instrument. It is repetition, and more repetition, then a little more after that.

After Jackie Robinson the most important black in baseball history is Reggie Jackson, I really mean that.

I am the best in baseball.

God knows I gave my best in baseball at all times and no man on earth can truthfully judge me otherwise.

Do we need to have 280 brands of breakfast cereal? No, probably not. But we have them for a reason - because some people like them. It's the same with baseball statistics.

I do have a family, and obviously I spend as much time as I can with them. Though even when I'm with my family, my mind tends to drift toward baseball.

Baseball is one of the most beautiful games. It is. It is a very Zen-like game.

I don't like American football. I think it's boring and ridiculous and predictable. But baseball is very beautiful. It's played on a diamond.

I would love to see as many of the black players as possible in today's Major League Baseball make every effort to go to the Negro Leagues Museum and get a first-hand view of how it all started.

If you're going to play at all, you're out to win. Baseball, board games, playing Jeopardy, I hate to lose.

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