Alexis Sanchez Quotes

For me, baseball just brings up a lot of nostalgic, happy feelings because I enjoyed it as a kid, and I liked being out there playing in the sun, and it was a simpler time for all of us.

I remember how much fun it was to be a child in the kibbutz.

That was real baseball. We weren't playing for money. They gave us Mickey Mouse watches that ran backwards.

My best memories are because I was on teams I love - even going back to being a kid. Not just in the NBA.

There are times I think of us all and I wish we were back in second grade. Not really that young. But I wish it felt like second grade. I’m not saying everyone was friends back then. But we all got along. There were groups, but they didn’t really divide. At the end of the day, your class was your class, and you felt like you were a part of it. You had your friends and you had the other kids, but you didn’t really hate anyone longer than a couple of hours. Everybody got a birthday card. In second grade, we were all in it together. Now we’re all apart.

For me, football always meant that we came together as a family and, in the summer we played football outside.

I love kids. I was a kid myself, once.

I had 10 to 12 close buddies who I played ball with all the way from elementary to high school. That is where I learned to compete.

Simple pleasures were all the pleasures that I knew as a child.

I can remember being eight, and I like writing about that age of innocence when children still have a sense of wonder.

I love going to the local market and seeing friends that I grew up with... and having conversations. I love the community of Bayonne.

My favorite thing to do is still to go back to Peoria, go to my cabin and hunt with the boys. This is a great lifestyle, don't get me wrong. But fun for me is going back with my buddies I grew up with.

Recently, I've really responded to books that bring the magic of childhood back to us as adults.

The little boy inside of all us men always loves something video game related.

I grew up playing football since the day I could walk; some of my greatest memories of childhood are playing touch football in all kinds of weather with my best friends. That's a part of the American experience that no corporation can destroy.

I loved being outside. We'd hold lightning bugs in our fingers and pretend they were diamond rings.

My entire life has been an attempt to get back to the kind of feelings you have on a field. The sense of brotherhood, the esprit de corps, the focus - there being no past or future, just the ball. As trite as it sounds, I was happiest playing ball.

We grew up in Woolton, Liverpool. We didn't have much, but it was irrelevant. We played out a lot with all the kids on the street.

When I was a boy, the neighbours all knew who I was because I'd take a ball with me everywhere I went.

Never had I had so many friends and so much fun as I did in the projects.

The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.

We all knew each other in the neighborhood. I loved living in El Paso. I had a wonderful childhood there.

I think baseball can bring a lot of happiness to the people and people can be together.

The great thing about Little League was that anyone could play it.

I was the youngest of about nine boys in the neighborhood, and we played ball all the time, and I looked up to them, and they let me play around with them, and we just had a good time.