“When I came back, it would be like this never happened. I wanted to be that much better. I wanted to prove to everybody else that this wasn’t going to be the end of my career. This wasn’t going to hamper anything as far as my playing style, none of that. That was my mindset throughout. So I went out there, and after that first contact, nothing happened. I was like, ‘Oh [hell], I’m not really worried anymore.’”