Harmon Killebrew Quotes

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

I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn't good enough. I didn't know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.

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

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

When I was in the West Coast watching the Giants, Rich Aurilia was a guy I always liked.

I really put the medical school thing on hold and really chased after my football dream. And I guess I'm still chasing. I'm eight years in the NFL, and I feel very fortunate to be where I am.

My father was an outfielder in the Milwaukee system before he hurt his elbow.

I play baseball. I don't deal with trades, free agency, any of that stuff.

Playing for Midland, that helped me get to Arkansas. It was really all I ever wanted to do.

I grew up playing football and baseball and moved on to play college baseball, and, you know, as a kid, my dream was to play professional baseball.

I had dreams of being a professional rugby player.

If I weren't playing baseball, I would be a radio or sports broadcaster. In college at South Carolina I did some stuff with the radio station and really liked it.

How can you not have fun going around the country playing baseball for a living? Being a baseball player is the next best thing to being a rock star.

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

I loved playing baseball, and the only reason I played was to play professional baseball. I wanted that to be my career for a long time. I turned down multiple jobs and meetings because of it.

I don't think I've changed very much. I think I'm the same kid that I was when I got here. When I came here all I wanted to do was win games. I wanted to play baseball for LSU and be the ultimate team player. That's all I want to do. If we don't end up being the last team to win the game at the end of the year then I won't be happy. That's all I'm worried about this year.

This is my best time of the year (spring training). Heck, once the season starts, I go to work.

Of all the young men in America only a few hundred can get into major league baseball, and of these only a handful in a decade can get into the Hall of Fame. So it goes in all human activity. .. Some become multimillionaires and chairmen of the board, and some of us must be content to play baseball at company picnics or manage a credit union without pay.

I thought my chances to make the Braves were better and that they were being fairer to me, paying me more money to play in a lower classification ... Besides, the Giants spelled my name "Arron" on their telegram.

Never root for a team whose uniforms have elastic stretch waistbands.

I have always wanted to be part of something special, and when I got to Boston.. actually, when I bought, begged and pleaded my way onto the Celtics.. it was already a championship team. I was just glad to be able to sit there and cheer and to be Larry Bird's valet, to be sure that his shoes were fine and his uniform was folded neatly.

The last start of spring training, my (cut fastball) was okay. It just wasn't what I wanted it to be. I tried to work on making it cut more and do more. I think that set (the forearm) off ... trying to make it move a lot, cut a lot. I'm just going to back off and trust it a little bit more and not try and push that.

Develop a mentor at each stage of your career - someone who will give you guidance and advice.

I wanted to play football and see how that went. In my mind, I knew I wasn't good enough to be a pro, but I was having a really fun time doing it. When you're on a college team, you can tell who's going to be a pro or not almost instantly.

I may have got (Paul) Waner out, but I never fooled him.