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I played baseball because I could make more money doing that than I could doing anything else.

I was a baseball fan myself, I wanted to play baseball.

I had an addiction to play baseball.

I came up under the wing of Larry Bowa, and one thing I did not do was ever take a day off from taking pregame groundballs or batting practice. Then the games were just having fun.

In baseball, I was a pitcher, which I hated because there was no action there.

I wanted to play baseball!

I don't go to bed every night worried about getting back into baseball.

I hated baseball. I really didn't like baseball at all until someone decided they were going to pay me... Every year I played in the big leagues, the day the season ended, I called my buddies in West Virginia and said, 'I'll be home tomorrow.'

That was one of the most comfortable things about leaving baseball was to leave the environment. It's very much like a rock star existence - the nightlife, the hotels, lack of privacy... There's a lot of temptations out there. It was nice getting away from it.