Since I was in high school, I wanted to play professional football and professional baseball, be a two-sport star.

I was a professional baseball player from the time I was drafted out of high school in 1981 until the time I retired in 2003.

When I went to high school, my most passionate desire was to be a professional baseball player. But something within me told me that was not going to happen.

I wanted to be a professional baseball player.

Never. Not middle school baseball. Not high school football. I never got cut.

Playing professional football is something I'll never be able to do.