Balthazar Getty Quotes

I kept thinking, 'this must be the coolest job - I'd like to be a professional baseball player.' They were getting paid to play a game, and what a cool lifestyle that was.

I heard that in the United States the level of baseball was the highest in the world. So it was only natural that I would want to go there, as a baseball player.

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.

Ever since I got drafted by the Yankees, I've been working on my swing.

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

I've always wanted to be a top footballer since I was young.

Growing up, I actually wanted to be a professional baseball player instead of a radio DJ. Believe it or not.

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

To be a big league ball player, you have to love the game.

I played good ball in the minor leagues, and that's why they called me up to the major leagues.

My first goal was to become a professional footballer.

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.

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

I ain't ever had a job, I just always played baseball.

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

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

I would say I was jock. I went to Sierra College. I was a big baseball player. Getting into the MLB was my dream - to become a left-handed pitcher for the Yankees. That's what I was hoping, but life kind of went the other way.

Even though I play a professional sport now, I love college baseball.

I went through baseball as 'a player to be named later.'

I just wanted to go play in the big leagues. But possibly playing for the Yankees is very special.

I know I never saw Casey Stengel when I was being scouted. And how could you be in a ballpark and not know if Casey Stengel was there?

Ever since I was six or seven, I wanted to be a professional footballer.

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

It was my dream to have an opportunity to become a professional player.

I've always dreamed of being a professional athlete.