Marathons are hard because of the physical pain, the pounding on the muscles, joints, tendons.
I have been up and down the batting order and it's difficult. People don't always realise that.
Wrestling is one of the hardest things, and it has nothing to do with the extremely hard physical part of it. It has to do with the psychological part of it.
When you train as hard as we do, bad things happen sometimes. It's just part of the sport.
I would sooner be prime minister of the moon than run another marathon. I've been really lucky. I didn't have any toenails fall off or anything disgusting like that. I still have all three nipples.
Some of the great John Wayne hero things that have ever happened in football happened because people play hurt.
Sometimes people fight with injuries and nobody knows, so it's important for the fans to see what we do to - for everything.
When I had my tryout, just from two days being in the ring, learning to bump, hit the ropes, and things like that, I came home, and my back was just one huge bruise.
Any injury is tough, and it is a little bit tougher when it is the hand that you have to catch with, but it is football man. I wouldn't have it any other way.
In college, there never really was an offseason. The season would end, you'd get a week break, and then the hardest time of the year would start. Winter workouts in college were absolutely miserable.
Training is what sacrifices. I see that in my body.
It's not easy to be a footballer.
People should realize my job is not as tough as a forward playing 80 games and getting hit every day.
For a quarter of a century, I've been playing baseball for pay. It has been pretty good pay, most of the time. The work has been hard, but what of it? It's been risky. I've broken both my legs. I've sprained everything I've got between my ankles and my disposition. I've dislocated my joints and fractured my pride.
