I don't vote party lines. Never have. I vote for the best candidate.

I don't pitch for contracts.

The bigger the game the better. I'm an adrenaline junkie. I feed off big crowds and noise.

One of the walls of my bedroom was a collage of about 15 years of baseball photos. I would cut out the baseball pictures from every issue and I had this huge montage of thousands of pictures.

I've been able to do what I love and what I'm passionate about my entire life. I made, you know, an insane amount of money playing 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.

I tell people all the time that without the fans, I've got nothing.