I was a gymnast for 13 years, so I was heavy into sports.
I grew up an athlete, growing up in Pittsburgh. I played basketball. I played football. I played a little bit of baseball in my earlier years.
I was always athletic when I was growing up.
I've been athletic since I was a kid. My parents got me playing tennis when I was seven years old and I started to play competitively.
I played all kinds of sports growing up: soccer, basketball, track. You name it, I've probably played it.
I had never played a team sport when I was younger.
I took my time with the sport of MMA. I wrestled, won the Olympics. I boxed for years.
I thought I did until I looked at some old game films. (When asked if he played college football)
For me, growing up, I'd always been a part of team sports, except for when I was boxing.
I don't know the history of my sport. I'm not like those people who know everything.
Baseball is like cricket, and I grew up in a country where they had cricket. So I understand cricket, soccer and basketball. I played basketball at the club level and a little bit in college, so that's why I'm a basketball fanatic.
I was the first person in my family to play baseball.
There is a feeling when you are in Yankee Stadium that it is a very sacred ground you are walking on and you know you had the same feelings that other great players have had in other eras that played right there on that field.
My mom is a former volleyball player.
Going back in time, the best sportsmen ever have been Olympians.
I have ten marathons under my belt, including four New York races and one Boston.
Before the Colts arrived in 1947, the best athlete in town was a woman duckpin bowler named Toots Barger. Football? The biggest games in Baltimore had been when Johns Hopkins took on Susquehanna or Franklin & Marshall at homecoming.
