LENNY Hayes still struggles to believe his football story is good enough to be in print.
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And why he's so universally loved across the entire landscape of the sport.
The St Kilda great was in Launceston yesterday, signing copies of his autobiography Lenny: My Story at Petrarch's, with more than 200 Saints supporters joining the queue to meet their hero.
"It blows me away as it (being loved by the footy public) is never something you really think about," the 34-year-old said.
Hayes was encouraged to write Lenny: My Story, by his manager Adam Ramanauskas, who also released his own autobiography at the end of his playing career for Essendon.
"I don't think I'm that interesting to be honest, but he [Ramanauskas] convinced me I had a story to tell.
"But looking back I'm really glad I have done it, as I've got a 10-month-old son [Hunter] who will never believe I played footy, so I'll be able to pull the book out every now and then and tell him that I used to go all right."
Hayes played 297 games for the Saints. The three-time best and fairest and three-time All Australian won the Norm Smith Medal as best on ground in the drawn grand final against Collingwood in 2010.
