"I had a lot of fear that would motivate me to try to work hard, because I didn't know what I would do if I wasn't a baseball player."

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In an unhealthy way, I found a lot of validity in having always been a very good athlete, a very good baseball player, and I've since grown out of that place into a different perspective and learned how to live differently, thankfully, where baseball is certainly something that's very important to me. It's not who I am, though. It's just what I do.

— R.A. Dickey