Careers Quote by Nolan Ryan

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 wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn't good enough. I didn't know what I was going to do with my…

— Al Pacino

My career spanned the era when relievers started to become more important

— Dennis Eckersley

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.

— David Cone

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

— Takeru Kobayashi

It was all I lived for, to play baseball.

— Mickey Mantle

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

— Bryce Harper

When I was 12, I had a coach tell me I would never be a championship pitcher. That devastated me. I was crushed.

— Jennie Finch

Since coming to the major leagues, my passion toward baseball had started to decrease.

— Yu Darvish

I wasn't ready for the majors when I joined the Pirates in 1955. I was too young and didn't know my way around.

— Roberto Clemente

Before, if I wasn't in baseball, I wanted to become a doctor.

— Pedro Martinez

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