Advice Quote by Joe Torre

I was 8 or 10, and I was a catcher, and my grandmother said to me, 'I want you to be like Johnny Bench.'…

— Kyle Schwarber

Up until the time I was 14 years old, I was sure that I was going to be a big-league baseball player. But that…

— Phil Knight

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

— Tom Seaver

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

— Takeru Kobayashi

I went to college for a reason, and that was to skip the minor leagues. I spent a year in the minors and got…

— Mark Teixeira

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

— Allan Ray

I was a baseball player growing up and wanted to play ball.

— Ernie Johnson Jr

I always wanted to be a major-league baseball player.

— Bryce Harper

In high school, baseball was life. My senior year, I had the highest batting average on the team. I was one of the starting…

— Anthony Ramos

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

I always wanted to be a shortstop so I could play more often!

— Jim Abbott

I used to be a hitter when I was in high school.

— Jameis Winston