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In an unhealthy way, I found a lot of validity in having always been a very good athlete, a very good baseball player, and I've since grown out of that place into a different perspective and learned how to live differently, thankfully, where baseball is certainly something that's very important to me. It's not who I am, though. It's just what I do.

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Out of sheer stubbornness, I just would keep going - just hoping that at some point something would click. I certainly held onto the hope that it mig…

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I could never get a real good clear picture of what I could become.

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A lot of people don't trust the pitch. There's this kind of reputation it has for being untrustworthy and fickle and capricious and everything else, …

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I think what motivated me was just hope. Something inside of me, deep down in my guts, always felt like there was something in there.

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I had a lot of fear that would motivate me to try to work hard, because I didn't know what I would do if I wasn't a baseball player.

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I would use sport as an escape from the pain of what was real. Instead of dealing with the pain, instead of being honest about the pain, instead of a…

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It's a pitch you can extend your career with because it's less taxing on your body. It's like dog years, but in reverse. I feel like I'm 27 or 26 in …

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Realistically, I shouldn't be able to turn a doorknob without having some discomfort.

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There's been this steady metamorphosis from just surviving to being a craftsman and, ultimately, the hope is to be an artist in what you do.?

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