A ball player has to be kept hungry to become a big leaguer. That's why no boy from a rich family has ever made the big leagues.
If I would be happy, I would be a very bad ball player. With me, when I get mad, it puts energy in my body.
As far as I'm concerned, Aaron is the best ball player of my era. He is to baseball of the last fifteen years what Joe DiMaggio was before him. He's never received the credit he's due.
But I was so wrapped up in sports growing up as a kid, that I think I was going to grow to be a pro ball player. But I found out real quick that was not going to happen.
I wanted to definitely be a musician or a good preacher or a heck of a baseball player. I couldn't play ball too good - I hurt my finger, and I stopped that. I couldn't preach, and well, all I had left was getting into the music thing.
I was a baseball player. I played in high school and a little bit in college. I was a catcher. I don't know if I could have played any other position. As a catcher, you're always on the ball.
I started playing ball when I was a kid. My dad was a pro ball player and he passed on his knowledge to me.
I was not successful as a ball player, as it was a game of skill.
In regards to core training, I try to incorporate the medicine ball whenever possible. As a baseball player, there is a lot of twisting and turning that I will do. Keeping my abs strong is as important as anything else.
I am a ball player in the summer and a farmer in the winter time, and I aim to be a success at both professions.