Growing up, Darryl Strawberry was my favorite baseball player/ hero. I still have roughly 100 of Darryl’s baseball cards to prove it.

“We used to tag-team women. I know all you dudes in here know what I mean when I say that. We used to laugh about it, but now I know it was really wrong.”

“When I first came up to the big leagues, a veteran player laid out some lines of cocaine for me. He said, yeah, this is what we do in the big leagues. So I did some coke and was like WOAH, man… yeah, this IS what we do in the big leagues.”

“Man, I used to smoke dope with all kinds of dudes. I don’t know how I’m not dead.”

Well, I don’t really want to do lines and smoke dope with all kinds of dudes, but if I have learned anything from our government growing up, once you make a decision its best to stay the course. Lead the way Darryl, lead the way.

• Life lessons with Darryl Strawberry (Deadspin)