Gary Carter Quotes

Before I was a manager, I was a player for 11 years.

I loved to play, I was competitive, I wanted to win, that was all I knew. In the first few years tennis is a game. Later, it becomes a job.

Derek Jeter is one who played for such a long time, and David Ortiz in Boston is doing it right now.

As a child, I wanted to be an athlete, a professional tennis player or something like that.

I'm human and I've played my butt off for ten years. I'm not a loafer, I'm not a jerk, I'm a baseball player.

All I wanted to be was a player.

By that time I was thinking a little about pro ball and hopeful that someone would draft me.

My real-life athletic career was not very much. I played Little League baseball.

First of all, I really never imagined myself being a professional athlete.

I have had an amazing career for a man who hits things for a living.

I want to be remembered one day as a great player, good athlete and a good professional.

No athlete ever ends his or her career the way you want to. We all want to play forever. But it doesn't work that way. Accepting the end gracefully is part of being a professional athlete.

I'm proud of my career as a player.

I've always dreamed of being a professional athlete.

There comes a time in any proud sportsman's career when you have to make the difficult decision to stop.

I always enjoyed the training part of baseball. I went to play college baseball and decided it wasn't for me.

I think as a professional sportsman you're aware that your time is limited.

I was a footballer for a long, long time.

I thought my dream job was to play cricket.

You're playing football for a living. There aren't many things better than that.

Anyone who plays professional sport for a living is extremely lucky, and that's my overriding feeling - I believe I have the best job in the world!

A life of a sportsperson is approximately 14-15 years long and fatigue will be a part of it, but they have to manage that.

I knew I was going to be a sportsman.

What a blessing it is to throw a baseball for a living!

To me, I just play baseball, whether I have the contract or not.