Tebow: Helping fan more important than anything on baseball field
No one could have predicted Tim Tebow's baseball career would start like this.
After going 0-3 in his Arizona Fall League debut Tuesday, the ex-quarterback was signing autographs for fans when he noticed a man completely lose consciousness and fall into a seizure. After rushing to his side, Tebow said the decision to stay with him was easy.
"Let me ask you a question: What would be more important, that I go to the locker room and I get on the bus and we get back a little bit quicker? In my opinion, it's not even a choice. It's the right thing to do. It's what you're supposed to do, in my opinion," Tebow told ESPN's Adam Rubin.
"People are what's important. And an opportunity to help someone is more important than anything that I could have possibly done on a baseball diamond that day."
Tebow said the fan, later revealed as 30-year-old Brandon Berry, came back to his senses immediately after he started praying. Berry was released from hospital today and is expected to make a full recovery.
With many labeling Tebow's actions as heroic and "miracle-like", the 29-year-old refused to call it that, but did admit he believes in them.
"As far as me and a miracle, no," Tebow said. "But in the God that we serve, yeah, I do believe in miracles."