Injuries prevented Ken Griffey Jr. from aging gracefully over the back half of his career, and the Hall of Famer spoke about his numerous surgeries in an appearance on Showtime Sports' All the Smoke.
Griffey elaborated on how other sports can exact a different kind of physical toll compared to baseball.
"I don't take anything away from anybody's other sport, whether it be football or basketball, because that's a whole lot of pounding y'all do that people don't see," Griffey told retired NBA veterans Matt Barnes and Stephen Jackson. "They don't see the elbows to the ribs, the shots that you guys take going to the hole, the guys tackling and things like that.