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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Part of the $10 million I spent on gambling, part on booze and part on women. The rest I spent foolishly.
I could have played another year, but I would have been playing for the money, and baseball deserves better than that.
My first year in the big leagues, I made $17,000. It was easy to go out and get another $17,000 relief pitcher. I never worried about innings or pitches. I just pitched.
I didn't make enough money in my sport to retire.
I did some sports. It was a bit frustrating. I wasn't the greatest sports person.
$200, 300 million games, I'm a little scared about that; there aren't a lot of companies that have the resources or the courage to spend that much.
I have never been assigned a game, I have never made a game I didn't want to make. I've never done anything just to make somebody some money.
Playing baseball was my dream, and no amount of money could sway my opinion.
I played baseball because I could make more money doing that than I could doing anything else.
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.