Age Quote by Eddy Alvarez

I wanted to play baseball ever since I was 5 years old.

— Allan Ray

Everybody wants to be a professional baseball player and, sure, as a kid, I wanted to do that. But once I got cut from…

— Mark Buehrle

You know, I'm not just a jump ball guy. I'm good at jump balls. I'm really good at jump balls. I wish I got…

— Mike Evans

I've been playing baseball since I was 5 or 6 years old. I've been on a schedule, pretty much, since I was in eighth,…

— Derek Jeter

When I went to high school, my most passionate desire was to be a professional baseball player. But something within me told me that…

— Tom Wolfe

I wanted to be a professional baseball player.

— Balthazar Getty

When I was a kid, I wanted to be a baseball player.

— Takeru Kobayashi

You could be a kid for as long as you want when you play baseball.

— Cal Ripken, Jr

I had 12 years under my belt of baseball at the amateur level before I got to the big leagues.

— Tom Seaver

That's your dream, to play professional baseball. When you get the opportunity like that, getting drafted - especially by Oakland, a California team, pretty…

— Aaron Judge

I started playing baseball at age 4 because my family has always played baseball and I always wanted be like my brother and my cousin.

— Francisco Lindor

Actually, I wanted to play baseball. Honestly, I just think with a kid developing, playing a lot of sports, it's just kind of whatever…

— Chris Long