Alex Rodriguez

These are all guys that I'm friends with.

Tiger Woods came out early.

But I think all of us that came out early, there is one common theme.

We had some ups and we've had some downs.

What came with money that you weren't expecting?

Freedom.

Uh, eyeballs, jealousy, anxiety.

Yeah.

Why anxiety?

Why anxiety?

Because again, you know, from the age of 10 to 17, when I

became a millionaire and the Mariners made me the number one pick in the country.

And my mother and my sister, Susie, negotiated a $1.35 million contract.

I didn't have lessons in life on how to distribute, how to help out my family, who gets what, what to save, what to spend, what to invest in.

This was new territory for me.

I was training to be a baseball player and I was barely keeping up with that.

You know, if you think about it, most people, if they're lucky enough to make a million dollars, usually it happens with a college degree, after marriage, kids, maturity, and usually you're in the other side of 40.

Here I am at 17 with here's a million dollars, here's fame, here's expectations, and then you got to go deal with it.

Jealousy, what did that bring?

I just think, you know, the higher you go on the flagpole, the more people are taking a look at your back end, right?