I'll probably take this year off, |
I've always wanted to come back and coach at Iowa State. |
If guys are struggling with their role, I might be a guy that they can come talk to about that. I'm just going to try to do anything I can. |
If I was a rookie, without a family, I'd probably be playing right now. But my family is the most important thing to me. I think it would be selfish for me to go and play if there was any risk involved. |
If there's something wrong or a chance something can go wrong, I'll hang 'em up. I'll think about that first hit (if he returns). My game is diving on the floor, setting screens, but if the doctors say it's OK, and they say the heart has healed, I'll play. |
It's nice to be active again. |
Maybe it will be mentoring the younger players, |
Nothing's for sure. I just want to find out if it's a situation that would make sense. |
Right now, I'm trying to make a decision. |
The big mistake this year is we came in expecting to win, and I don't think we had the same fire and intensity that we had a year ago. |
There's a big decision to be made, and hopefully it will be made in the near future. |
They all say there is a small amount of risk. They have differing opinions on how much there is. They can't put a number on that risk, because nobody has ever played with my condition. At the end of the day, with the family I have, I think the smartest thing for me to do is retire. |
This is going to be a very difficult year for me, to sit out. I've had a uniform on every year since I was 7 years old. For me to have to sit back and watch and not be proactive ... it's going to be hard for me. |
When something is taken away from you before you're ready, something that you love to do so much, it's tough to accept. But at the end of the day, what it came down to was my family being comfortable with me being out there. And that's not going to happen. |
You can mark my word. I will play again. |