Albert Pujols Quotes

I want to finish my career in Cleveland. They gave me the opportunity to play in the big leagues.

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

I've kind of looked at my whole career as a spring training invite.

I wanted to be a professional baseball player.

When I started playing the game of baseball, the more I played and the better numbers I got, the more I started thinking about the Hall of Fame. But I never thought I had a chance to be there.

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

I'm flattered that so many baseball people think I'm a Hall of Famer. But what's hard to believe is how one-hundred and fifty plus people have changed their minds about me since I became eligible, because I haven't had a base hit since then.

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.

I was going to fight for what I wanted first, and that was being in L.A. and being a Laker. L.A. was the first place that came to my mind. That's where my heart was at.

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 thought I was a pretty good shortstop, but I also wanted to play in the major leagues.

My true dream, ever since I was a kid, was to play professional baseball. It's something that I worked my whole life for. But that didn't work out with the knee surgeries and whatnot.

When a top club comes calling, who you know will be firing on all fronts with competitions and medals, that's ultimately what you want to be playing for.

I've done did a lot of things in the NBA, made a lot of stuff, so I'm happy with what I've done.

You get older, and you want to be a professional athlete; you want to win on the biggest stage.

Whenever we had career day at elementary school, and we could dress up like what you wanted to be, when I got on stage, mine was playing major league baseball.

I'm trying to leave a legacy, man. I'm trying to get a gold jacket someday. That's my mindset.

The Cards had one pitcher who won fourteen straight games in a period of twenty-four days. Then when he lost his fifteenth game 1-0, his manager fined him fifty bucks.

You know, like, there's songs like "Valerie" and "Bang Bang Bang" that I was so proud of. And, you know, the level of success that they had - if they were little cult hits meant that, you know, I could sellout Webster Hall or Williamsburg Musical Hall or the El Rey theater in LA. Like, that was having made it to me. So the thought of having a number one song in my own career, like, never even registered.

Congratulations to Alex Rodriguez on his 660th home run, milestones in baseball are meant to be broken and I wish him continued success throughout his career.

I physically feel very fit. I’m very motivated to keep on playing on a very high level. I’m going to try to use these years in front of me to fight for the number one of the world and fight for the biggest titles.

I am not a career woman, and I would never have become one in normal life, because I am not ambitious enough for that.

I want to be undefeated for a while and end my career as one of the greatest of all-time.

I haven't given it (achieving 3,000 hits) much thought. I was taught a certain approach, how to come to the ballpark. I try not to do too much thinking about things like that. In this society we measure success in different ways. Three thousand (hits) represents success over a career, not a season. It'll be nice to get to that point.