Football, I thought, would be a tough sport to make a living in. There is no minor league. You either make it to the NFL or you don't.

When I was a minor league player, my goal was to be a major leaguer. It's no different as a minor league manager.

Any time you're in the coaching business or managing in the minor leagues, when you see a player who has made it to the major leagues, you get a thrill out of that.

I played high school football at a hundred and eighty-five pounds and played big league baseball at a hundred and eighty-two. I'd get up to maybe 188 in the off-season because every summer I'd lose eight to ten pounds.

I thought '23' was kind of an odd number, ... I asked for 14, and Yosh totally turned me down and said that number's been taken and retired. Yosh Kawano has been a good friend of mine, and he was the one that picked that out for me. And that was the perfect number.

I thought I was a pretty good shortstop, but I also wanted to play in the major leagues.