The Most Shocking Things Athletes Spend Their Money On

Three-time NBA All-Star Gilbert Arenas likes to spend money. Arenas reportedly dropped $1 million on a swimming pool and $60,000 for a train set for his children. At one time he kept pet sharks – which set him back $6500 a month for a caretaker and shark food.

Baseball great and Hall of Famer Reggie Jackson loves cars. He started collecting them at a young age and currently has well over 100 classic automobiles. A fire at one of his storage warehouses destroyed a number of cars, worth more than $3 million.

Professional golfer John Daly admitted in his autobiography that he's had a hard time with a gambling problem. He's blown as much as $60 million over the years. His biggest loss happened back in 2005 when he burned through more than $1.5 million dollars in a single day at a Vegas casino.

Former boxing champion Evander Holyfield raked it in during his career. When it was time to build a house, he went big. Really big. He built a $15 million 54,000 sq. ft. mansion in suburban Atlanta. With 109 rooms, including 12 bedrooms, 21 bathrooms, three kitchens and two bowling alleys, it was a comfortable place to call home. And it cost $1 million a year to maintain. But then financial troubles forced him to into foreclosure. The estate was auctioned off for the bargain basement price of just $7.5 million.

NFL player Bryant McKinnie is noted for picking up an enormous tab at a night club in L.A. McKinnie dropped $100,000 in a single evening – much of it for 15 bottles of very expensive champagne. We can only imagine what the tip was.

Boxer Mike Tyson likes to spend. Two examples: a $2 million bathtub that he gave his first wife for Christmas. And then there are the tigers. Tyson spent $140,000 on a pair of Bengal tigers. Due to financial woes, he no longer has the tigers. But Tyson has said he'd like to have pet tigers again at some point in the future.

When he turned 32, professional football player Chad Johnson (aka Chad Ochocinco) decided to give himself a birthday present: a customized semi-trailer truck worth well over $100,000. Not a bad way to celebrate your big day.

Boxer Floyd Mayweather reportedly bought his former fiancée Shantel Jackson a $16 million necklace back in 2012. According to the website Bossip, the necklace held the “Heart of Eternity,” one of the most expensive diamonds in the world.

NBA player Marquis Daniels came up with an original idea to spend his his money on: a pendant. But not just any pendant – a 3-D miniature copy of his own head. It's made from 1.3 kg of 14-karat gold and covered with white and cognac diamonds. What's it worth? We're not sure – but given the price of gold these days, it's a lot.