When I began playing the game, baseball was as gentlemanly…

When I began playing the game, baseball was about as gentlemanly as a kick in the crotch.

— Ty Cobb

When I started playing the game of baseball, the more I played and the better numbers I got, the more I started thinking about…

— Roberto Alomar

I'm usually the little kid that runs around all excited that he's just in the big leagues playing the game of baseball.

— Francisco Lindor

When I was a little boy, I didn't know what the Hall of Fame was. I was just playing the game of baseball, and…

— Roberto Alomar

I'm not going to be reading as much about everything as probably the next guy. I'm really more focused on the between-the-lines stuff. That's…

— Chris Sale

Little boys are still playing the game [baseball], more little girls are playing, and it is still the world's most interesting game, a duel,…

— Robert Lipsyte

As good a hand-eye coordination I have playing the game of baseball, it is completely different out here, completely different style of swing. The…

— Chipper Jones

I have always had fun playing the game of baseball because I loved it so much.

— Rickey Henderson

I began playing football on the streets.

— Gabriel Jesus

Asbury Park's a special place for me. It's where I really began playing.

— Clarence Clemons

Well, I think, in large part, when I first began playing chess at seven years old, I was quite bad at it. I lost…

— Hikaru Nakamura

I started skiing around the same time as I began playing the piano, at around four, before moving to the violin at five.

— Vanessa Mae

A lot has changed in music since I began playing in 1987.

— John Popper

I began playing in the Pacific Coast Indoor Tennis Championships.

— Tracy Austin

I began playing at the age of six, but at that point, I had little idea of cricket; forget the talent part. It's around…

— Prithvi Shaw