I wanted to be a professional baseball player.
I was a professional athlete, the best baseball player in the world at one point.
Since I was in high school, I wanted to play professional football and professional baseball, be a two-sport star.
That's how easy baseball was for me. I'm not trying to brag or anything, but I had the knowledge before I became a professional baseball player to do all these things and know what each guy would hit.
You can learn a lot from a professional baseball player, if you can get one, which obviously you can't.
My father loved baseball and he cultivated my talent. I don't think he ever had any doubt in his mind that I would play professional baseball someday.
If they had rankings in baseball, maybe I would have been able to do the math and figure out my chances of being a professional baseball player versus a tennis player. But that was the decision-maker for me, I just thought I was better in tennis.
Until my senior year, baseball and basketball were my best sports; and even when I was a senior, I still wanted to play baseball professionally. But the family wanted me to go to college, and I guess I agreed with them, or else I would have accepted ...
My main objective is to prepare candidates for professional baseball; however, the majority of our graduates will go home as much better qualified amateurs.
Even though I play a professional sport now, I love college baseball.
Baseball cannot be learned as a trade. It begins with the sport of the schoolboy, and though it may end in the professional, I am sure there is not a single one of these who learned the game with the expectation of making it a business. There have be...
I kept thinking, 'this must be the coolest job - I'd like to be a professional baseball player.' They were getting paid to play a game, and what a cool lifestyle that was.
Growing up, I actually wanted to be a professional baseball player instead of a radio DJ. Believe it or not.
I was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional baseball man. I was lying to the press.
Anyone interested in becoming a professional umpire and becoming eligible to work in the minor leagues must attend one of the two umpire schools sanctioned by Major League Baseball.
Being with a woman all night never hurt no professional baseball player. It's staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in.
I'm no different than others with cancer. I just happen to play professional baseball. I'm part of those statistics that cancer has touched as well.
I was a professional baseball player from the time I was drafted out of high school in 1981 until the time I retired in 2003.
There's a bigger difference now than when I first got into professional baseball because that was before guaranteed contracts, before there was a lot of money, so it was mostly survival. You had more competition.
It was the baseball fantasy of a lifetime - to be able to sit on the bench with all those professional athletes. I got to take my son along because I wasn't sure I would be able to play with them.
When I went to high school, my most passionate desire was to be a professional baseball player. But something within me told me that was not going to happen.
