I'm no different than others with cancer. I just happen to play professional baseball. I'm part of those statistics that cancer has touched as well.

I wanted to be a professional baseball player.

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

I was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional baseball man. I was lying to the press.

I was a professional athlete, the best baseball player in the world at one point.

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.