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I'm a baseball player. I've done this my whole life.

If you asked a baseball pitcher from the '50s what a middle reliever was, he'd laugh at you. In the '50s, everyone pitched complete games.

Baseball was always my favorite sport, and I thought it would be the sport I'd pursue for the long term. But I guess about my sophomore year in high school, I started really getting into football, and then it just took off from there.

Golf is a great substitute for satisfying some of those competitive juices, and you can't play baseball for as long as I did and just shut it off. You've got to have an outlet or else I'd probably shrivel up and... I don't know.

I think I could don a baseball uniform and play with anybody who ever played the game and be successful. That's just me saying, 'I'm a baseball player.' And, gosh darn it, if I have to make adjustments, I'm going to make adjustments in order to be successful.

I think just because of my natural abilities I was good in all other sports. But when it came to baseball season, I wasn't just good in baseball.

Baseball was important to me - don't get me wrong. But at the end of my career, it wasn't as important as four or five years before.

I knew where my bread was buttered and it was in baseball.

I love my baseball, and I love my Phillies.

Let's say, for example, I'm playing ball but I decide to slack in school. I feel like that's going to carry over to baseball, that mentality. So I've always tried to put my nose down and just give everything I've got in whatever it is I'm doing.

I like baseball. I think that's the main thing. I enjoy playing the game.

I like the style of National League baseball. I like the different moves that have to be made. I like the fact that the No. 8 spot in the lineup can be one of the more challenging spots. It's a lot more strategy for that hitter and for the catcher sometimes with the pitcher coming up.

When I think of Jeter, I think of a guy that won a lot of baseball games. Ultimately, that's my goal in my professional career.

People like to have fun, and what better way to have fun than go to a football or baseball or basketball game in Vegas?

Wrestling isn't looked upon like the other sports of football, baseball, basketball and hockey.

I watched other boys play baseball and other games, but I was too sickly to join in the fun.

I was a good baseball player. I still play a couple of times a week as part of my daily workout. Just throwing the ball, running around, fielding ground balls, you know. It's better to me than being on a treadmill or some sort of Zumba class.

One-third of all professional baseball players come from Latin America, and Sosa is following role models such as the late Roberto Clemente, a Puerto Rican, from whom he adopted the No. 21. Now he is a model for others.

We don't even think about it out there. We just focus on doing our job. The ball is the same baseball, the game is the same game. We're going to just keep trying to do our jobs.

I know what I need to do to prepare myself, and I try to do the best I can to take care of my body and prolong my peak years as a baseball player.

I did enjoy baseball, and it was certainly something I liked to play, but hockey would become my No. 1 passion.