My real-life athletic career was not very much. I played Little League baseball.
You're playing a game, whether it's Little League or Game 7 of the Word Series. It's impossible to do well unless you're having a good time. People talk about pressure. Yeah, there's pressure. But I just look at it as fun.
I love watching players improve - even as a Little League coach.
Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.
When I played Little League, I looked up to the big leaguers, too, and collected their baseball cards.
I played Little League. I was a 'pitcher.' But we had a pitching machine, so I was just basically an 'in-infield' shortstop because all I got to do was field bloopers six feet from the plate. I couldn't hit, so that was pretty much my entire job.
Our parents helped us, or we wouldn't be here. Lacy Van Zant and my mother used to sign for amps or loan us money to get to the gig or take us in their car. It's just like little sports guys - Little League and football players - whose parents help them. That's why they get good.
As a kid, I used to love to play baseball and be in Little League and sleep outside with my friends and do all those kind of things.
My husband and Charlie Sheen played Little League together. They've always been best friends.
You remember driving your kids to Little League, and they're nervous about making the team, and you're encouraging them. Forty years down the road, we're having the same conversation. Only it's about the Ravens and Steelers, or Stanford and Cal.
