Then I got a bad back injury, and they thought I wasn't going to have any feeling in my legs.
Just about every player on tour has a bad back. It's just one of those games that does mess you up a little bit. You've got to keep looking after it.
When I was 41, I had a very bad back pain, and it turned out to be Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
I got no business going to a club. I'm a terrible dancer. I got a bad back.
I'm miserable: that's why I have such a bad back, because I'm endlessly stressing out about my career.
I play every day. I had a bad back, but they fixed it.
I have my good days and my bad days, but I don't have as much energy as I used to back when I was young and foolish and didn't count the cost - and it takes a lot - to write.
I've had a bad time, which we won't dwell on. We were married and we worked together for 52 years, and suddenly with her gone I was a quadriplegic. Slowly I'm crawling back.
Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier 'n puttin' it back in.
I would run into the corner store, the bodega, and just grab a paper bag or buy juice - anything just to get a paper bag. And I'd write the words on the paper bag and stuff these ideas in my pocket until I got back. Then I would transfer them into the notebook.
I'm representing the Bahamas; I'm representing a lot of islands - it's a whole nation behind me, on my back.
When I was 11 I had to umpire a game. I got hit in the head and got knocked out. The ball was hit straight back, hit the bail and knocked my head.
When the war was over and the guys were back to shaving every day, the editor thought the Beetle Bailey strips were hurting their disciplinary efforts to get the guys back to routine.
Way back when I was a junior pastry chef, I'd bake loads of muffins every morning, as many as 120 or so, while operating on autopilot.
My highest priority is to make sure we get Americans back to work. And that we have rising incomes again and that we have a deficit reduction program in place that convinces the world that we're on track to having a balanced budget.
We still have a major problem in debt with America that we have to find efficiencies in government to get us back to a balanced budget.
Every quarterback can throw a ball; every running back can run; every receiver is fast; but that mental toughness that you talk about translates into competitiveness.
The furthest I have even thrown the ball was 85 yards. But I had a little wind at my back, so I don't claim that one.
What personality does it take to drive a car around a track 100 times or hit a ball back and forth. That's not very personality is it?
When I'm playing live, I'll rip out a ballad from my album, and I'll play that solo on the piano, which feels really good because it kind of takes me back to when I was younger.
