I almost went with basketball over tennis.
If I would have chose baseball, I think I would be missing the hell out of football a lot more. For me, I wish I could do both.
I chose cricket as my career when I was 15 or 16 when I scored a century for Maharashtra.
I saw a chance to make the 1988 Olympic boxing team and forgot all about football.
The opportunity to play in the Big Ten was one that I could not pass up.
I could be 30 pounds heavier if I played football. But I play baseball, and I do Pilates.
Basketball would have been the natural sport to play, but it's a little too aggressive for me, so instead I dabbled in volleyball and some good old-fashioned Roller Derby.
I really wanted to play hockey. My mom thought figure skates looked easier to use, so she put me in the learn-to-skate program.
I liked wrestling a lot better than boxing. I remember thinking at that time that wrestling was a pure demonstration of strength, which I was interested in, while boxing was just hitting somebody or getting hit, which didn't appeal to me. But a demonstration of strength was okay, so I chose wrestling.
My parents didn't want me to do this. My dad, when I told him I wanted to wrestle, he told me no, if you're going to play any sports, play baseball.
Soccer and cricket were my main sports growing up. I had trials as a soccer player with a few clubs interested, Crystal Palace being one, but it was cricket which became my chosen profession.
It really came down to deciding between baseball and soccer. Soccer won out because I enjoyed it more.
It was either football or hockey. I chose football, and I think it's worked out OK so far.
I always listen, I ask children, I even ask adults in tennis, "What are your children playing?" And most of the time it's not tennis. It's pathetic.
To play at the Mecca of basketball and the Garden every night, it's probably the greatest decision I've ever made to go to New York.
I wasn't going to play on defense in college.
I was very active in college. I wanted to play athletics, and then I looked at wrestling as being a viable option to do that.
Everybody respected my choice to join the ISL. I was the one to decide to come to India and then many other foreign players decided to do the same.
My dream was to play football for the Oakland Raiders. But my mother thought I would get hurt playing football, so she chose baseball for me. I guess moms do know best.
In baseball, you have to remain calm, cool, and collected. In football, you can let out a little anger sometimes. It was a fun game, and I liked it, but I knew in my heart I was going to play baseball.
I probably would have played baseball if I had stayed in California... But I like Oklahoma better now. Football is bigger here. It's more exciting, anyway.
I played rugby until I was 15, 16 and I eventually had to say, 'No, I have to choose one' and it was obviously going to be football, I miss playing rugby a lot.
Ajwa and Asmara are the youngest and love to play dress-up. They have my permission to play any sport, as long as they're indoors. Cricket? No, not for my girls.
I had no idea I was going to be this tall. Had I known that, I honestly would have stuck to basketball.
I went to trials at Northants academy and got in. It was a crossroads between cricket and football.
