Ryne Sandberg Quotes

The draft is a crapshoot, so I've been very fortunate to be drafted by the Yankees, and to have spent my whole career here.

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

So to get to play for the Yankees was really exciting. Really exciting.

My major league debut came at old Busch Stadium on Grand Avenue in St. Louis against the Pittsburgh Pirates.

I want to be a starter again, I would really enjoy playing for the Phillies again, but my first consideration in making my decision is finding a circumstance that is right for me. I want to play for the Phillies again, but I also wouldn't mind joining a team I've never played with before.

I loved the opportunity to play for the Yankees, too.

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.

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

It was always a dream of mine to play for the Orioles.

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

I was always interested in baseball. In fact, in my younger years, I played it in an amateur way. But up to the time when I became identified with the Yankees, I was a strong National League rooter.

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

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

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 to manage the Yankees' Fort Lauderdale club. I thought about it for a day or two and decided to take the job. That was the turning point. I knew it was what I wanted to do.

Would I like to see baseball happen in Charlotte? Absolutely.

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.

Always wanted to be a Major League player. Loved baseball. Followed it. Loved to play. Plus, I could always hit.

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.

You know, when you first come up, and you get called up to the big leagues, all you want to do is just, you just want to have a career, a nice career. You want to make a living at it.

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.

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.

I played right field in Minor Leagues a lot before I started playing centerfield.

Once you leave the minor leagues, you want to not come back. But it's the path that I'm on, the journey that I'm on.

Enos Cabell started out here with the Astros, and before that he was with the Orioles.