The way I figured it, I was even with baseball and baseball with me. The game had done much for me, and I had done much for it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Again, like I said, I went out to play the game of baseball because I love to play it. I did it right. I did it the right way. I worked hard doing it.
When you are away from the game and busy with other areas, you realize that the world does not revolve around baseball.
Short of baseball and my family, it was gaming. And gaming is a $20-million to $200-million multi-year effort. It's an insane, stupid and utterly irresponsible act. But I did it.
It was so difficult for the fans to understand my problems with baseball.
I could have played another year, but I would have been playing for the money, and baseball deserves better than that.
Baseball is just my job.
It was all I lived for, to play baseball.
Well, baseball was my whole life. Nothing's ever been as fun as baseball.
The great trouble with baseball today is that most of the players are in the game for the money and that's it, not for the love of it, the excitement of it, the thrill of it.
I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.