Up until the time I was 14 years old, I was sure that I was going to be a big-league baseball player. But that dream came to a rude awakening when I got cut from my high school baseball team.

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'm a championship handball player. I'm a championship softball and baseball player. I used to be an extremely talented center in high school in football. I also dabbled in lacrosse and soccer. I'm really good at billiards, darts, shuffleboard.

I was a baseball player at North Central High School in Spokane, Washington even though I was all-city in basketball, even when I signed a letter of intent to play quarterback at Washington State.

I'm not an athlete, I'm a baseball player.