Around Quote by Roberto Clemente

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

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

And then when I went to stay in '68, I can honestly say that I was not focused on my career and on what…

— Nolan Ryan

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

— Bryce Harper

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

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

— Takeru Kobayashi

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

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

— Tom Seaver

From the time I was 3, I wanted to be a major-league player. To accomplish that at 35, get my name on my jersey,…

— Jim Morris

I don't feel I could've played major league baseball.

— Jim Brown

Well, I wanted to play twenty years in the major leagues. I never made it twenty though. I played nineteen.

— Bert Campaneris

I knew I'd never make it back to the major leagues as a player. Lee MacPhail came to me and asked if I wanted…

— Bobby Cox