Drew Pomeranz Quotes

At my growing years of 18 to 21 years old in the Minor Leagues, I dreamed of being a Philadelphia Phillie.

I played good ball in the minor leagues, and that's why they called me up to the major leagues.

If you're in the minor leagues, you want to get to the majors.

I heard that in the United States the level of baseball was the highest in the world. So it was only natural that I would want to go there, as a baseball player.

Until spring training in 1946, the only time I pitched was in 1945 in the GI World Series.

I never forgot the four years I spent with the Phillies, my September call-ups and my big league Spring Trainings. I never forgot that.

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

Everybody in the minor leagues - if you're a player, an announcer, whatever - wants to be in the big leagues.

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

I started in the lowest league in baseball, and I worked my way all the way up to Triple A and then to the big leagues. I never reached the level that I thought I would reach as a player. But that's the way it goes. So then I started from the bottom as a manager, and I worked my way up to managing the Dodgers for 20 years.

My high school coach was Ray O'Conner. He has coached a lot of players that have signed professional contracts, and many of those have gone on to play in the major leagues.

The Oakland A's, I loved all my teammates there. I loved all the coaches. They gave me the opportunity to play in the big leagues. And for that, I thank them. I mean it was a dream come true for me.

I played baseball in college, and then I went to Russia to study acting and played some pro ball over there.

I was trying to land an 18-year-old strapping first baseman from Blanco, Texas, population 200. His name was Willie Upshaw. It turned out there were only three scouts who knew about Willie - Dave Yocum and I working for the Yankees, and Al LaMacchia from the Atlanta Braves.

After one year in the Texas League, the American League bought the rights to my contract. They optioned me back to the Texas League for the 1970 season.

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.

If I could do it over, I'd want to come up to the big leagues like Mike Trout. He's exciting and I like watching him.

And then 45 years later, as I finished my career in the great city of Cleveland, that was another great way to end my career, going to the World Series.

When I was growing up, I always had the dream of being an analyst for a minor league baseball team or something like that.

I'm very thankful to the Yankees and to Major League Baseball for allowing me to play this game.

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.

In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea.

Ever since I got drafted by the Yankees, I've been working on my swing.

It's definitely a dream come true playing for the Red Sox.

This is something I've wanted to do my whole life is play baseball, and I think just the opportunity to put on a big-league uniform every day is just... you know, people dream of it, but not everybody gets to do it. I'm thankful every day I get to do it.