Alex Rodriguez (A‑Rod)

We got to highlight my flaws.

Because there's other kids, hopefully there's a new generation

who's 15, who wants to be like the next A-Rod or the next Jeter or the next Griffey, and they can look at my mistakes and learn from them, and then they can be the best version and go to the Hall of Fame and use something that I didn't need, obviously, and it was a dumbass mistake that I made.

And, you know, but...

After the therapy, fellas, one thing I'm proud of is I'm proud of everything.

The highs, the lows, the good, the bad, and the ugly.

Because that's just a person that just made a mistake.

This is not a baseball documentary.

If you want a baseball documentary, you're going to be very disappointed.

I think this is just a journey and a mental health story about someone who's just trying to figure it out as a regular person.

I can't go that far.

I can say that I'm hopeful.

Yeah.

But if I don't get in, I mean, I can just look in the mirror and see that's the person's fault.

It's my fault, right?

But I'm hopeful and it'll be a great day.

But also the difference is I'm not tied to it.

And I think my first indication

is A-Rod with 696 home runs, when I get those three phone calls from those three other teams, I would have gone to Taiwan, I would have gone to Japan, I would have gone to Tokyo, you name it, China, to get those four home runs.

And the fact that I was able to walk away and I didn't need those four home runs to validate me, that was the first step of growth that I was really proud of.