Two-sports star Deion Sanders reveals biggest challenge in professional career: 'Hitting that baseball'

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Three-time Super Bowl champion Shannon Sharpe was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame alongside Deion Sanders in 2011.

Sharpe, the Denver Broncos legend who now works for ESPN, returned to Colorado on Friday to interview Sanders during the latest edition of "First Take." The show traveled to Colorado's campus to preview the undefeated Buffaloes' matchup against Colorado State.

At one point during the Sanders' appearance, Sharpe asked the two-sport star which of the games that he played presented the tougher challenge.

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Colorado Buffaloes head coach Deion Sanders on the set of ESPN College GameDay prior to the game between the Colorado Buffaloes and the Colorado State Rams at Folsom Field. (Andrew Wevers-USA TODAY Sports)

Aside from his storied NFL career, Sanders spent nine seasons playing Major League Baseball. 

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"You played football, you played baseball, nice in basketball…. all-state in basketball, and now you're a coach. What's the hardest one?" Sharpe asked Sanders.

"Hitting that baseball," Sanders responded.

"That baseball ain't no joke. That's why they fail seven out of ten times and still making 300 hundred . . . 400 million a year," Sanders added.

In 2016 Sanders revealed that he had almost been a three-sport athlete. He told Sports Illustrated that had had conversations with the Atlanta Hawks brass about appearing in an NBA game.

"I was close, I mean really close. This is a breaking story. I was really close to playing for the Atlanta Hawks for one game. When