Baseball and football are very different games. In a way, both of them are easy. Football is easy if you're crazy as hell. Baseball is easy if you've got patience. They'd both be easier for me if I were a little more crazy — and a little more patient.

Jackson contrasts the psychological demands of his two-sport career. Football, in his framing, rewards a kind of fearless, pain-tolerant aggression—“crazy” enough to embrace violent contact and play through risk. Baseball, by contrast, is “easy” only for those with patience: the ability to endure failure, wait out pitchers, and persist through long seasons and slumps. By wishing for “a little more” of each trait, he undercuts the bravado often attached to elite athleticism and admits that even a rare talent must cultivate the right temperament for each sport. The quote highlights how “difficulty” can be mental as much as physical.