Allan Ray Quotes

As a kid, baseball was always my passion.

I love baseball so much, ever since I was a child playing during the summers.

When I was a kid, I wanted to be a baseball player.

Baseball is what I always wanted to do with my life.

But I am delighted to be a Dodger, I grew up a Dodger fan and now my dreams have really come true.

Almost all of us growing up have played baseball on some level. It has an inside track with people. It has a unifying effect.

I always wondered how it would be to put on a Braves uniform and play in Atlanta.

I wanted to play baseball!

I chose baseball because to me baseball is the best game of all.

As a kid, I used to love to play baseball and be in Little League and sleep outside with my friends and do all those kind of things.

I probably hit 35 balls into the right-field bleachers.

Baseball began early for me. When I was 5, my father took two Little League bats and put them on a lathe. He whittled them down and sanded the bats so they were the proper size for my brother and me. He began by throwing tennis balls to us. Eventually, we practiced hitting and fielding at a field near our house.

As a kid, you put yourself in those positions. Bases loaded, two outs, you're at the plate. That's kind of the way I envision it as a kid playing whiffle ball or whatever the case was.

To me, baseball is, in some ways, other than my family and wife, my life, and it always will be.

I love baseball. I have a huge passion to play the game.

I think video games are a huge part of our society now. Having kids play baseball video games helps them understand and love the game. It could actually push them to get out there and play the game for real. That's great for the sport.

When I was real young I wanted to play baseball. I really loved playing center field, but that was never anything I was really ever that good at. I played up until I was in ninth grade.

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

Well, my favorite sport as a kid was clearly baseball.

I'd give a year of my life if I could hit a homerun on opening day of this great new park.

I was playing little league baseball when Bruce Jenner was winning the gold, but I don't think I was really paying attention at that time. It wasn't until 1980 - I think I was 12 years old - that I thought, 'Wow that's what I want to do. I want to be on the Olympic team.'

My childhood dream was to play basketball, actually.

I've always been a great lover of baseball.

As a youngster, I enjoyed sport and my ambition was to be a great sportsman.

I was playing little league baseball when Bruce Jenner was winning the gold but I don't think I was really paying attention at that time.