I admitted I bet on baseball, but I wasn't suspended from baseball for betting on baseball.

I bet on the game of baseball and I bet on my team, even the mistakes I made, I have to take a different look at someone betting against their own team... that's throwing the game.

I never picked up my phone and called a bookmaker and bet on a baseball game from the clubhouse. Never.

Mr. Selig looked at me and said, 'I want to know one thing. Did you bet on baseball?' ... I looked him in the eye. 'Sir, my daddy taught me two things in life -- how to play baseball and how to take responsibility for my actions. I learned the first one pretty well. The other, I've had some trouble with. Yes, sir, I did bet on baseball.'

Four or five times a week, ... But I never bet against my own team, and I never made any bets from the clubhouse.

I had an addiction to play baseball.