I took a huge risk leaving baseball, because I was predicted to play in the big leagues. I'm kind of a prototypical second baseman.
I kind of dress like a boy from the nineties. I like wearing baseball hats. I just like to be really comfortable.
Baseball just a came as simple as a ball and bat. Yet, as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. A sport, a business and sometimes almost even a religion.
I think people keep baseballs in their cars, just to be prepared in case they see me. It's cool to get recognized in public; it's an incredible feeling.
Tipping your hat to a lady is good form. If you're at a dinner table, you'd most certainly take your hat off - cowboy hat, baseball hat, or otherwise.
You have to go understand that life and baseball is littered with all kinds of obstacles and problems along the way. You have to learn how to overcome them to be successful in life.
I found out early in life that I could hit a baseball farther than most players, and that's what I tried to do.
Ethnic life in the United States has become a sort of contest like baseball in which the blacks are always the Chicago Cubs.
Sport is a wonderful metaphor for life. Of all the sports that I played - skiing, baseball, fishing - there is no greater example than golf, because you're playing against yourself and nature.
The Atlanta Braves are really all that our children know about this crazy baseball life, and we are so thankful for this upbringing for them.
If you're playing baseball and thinking about managing, you're crazy. You'd be better off thinking about being an owner.
The perception is that baseball's players' union is protecting players to use steroids and other illegal performance-enhancing drugs.
A tall, thin old man waving a scorecard from the corner of his dugout. That's baseball.
It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.
It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. It took one afternoon on the golf course.
I had no other interests but baseball because I never thought I'd not make it. No. Never.
We used to play baseball back in that field and keep an eye out for the bulls.
I've worked in supermarkets, put tags in baseball caps and provided security during Wimbledon, but I never thought acting would be something I'd be any good at, or make a living from.
I've been wanting to do a book about baseball for the longest time, and nobody will let me do it. It's the one thing from America I really miss.
I was playing little league baseball when Bruce Jenner was winning the gold but I don't think I was really paying attention at that time.
If you could equate the amount of time and effort put in mentally and physically into succeeding on the baseball field and measured it by the dirt on your uniform, mine would have been black.
