David Cone Quotes

I wanted to be a professional baseball player.

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

And then 45 years later, as I finished my career in the great city of Cleveland, that was another great way to end my career, going to the World Series.

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

I grew up a Dodger and got drafted by the Dodgers.

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

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

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

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.

Two things I really wanted to be: a stand-up comic or a New York Yankee - or a really funny New York Yankee.

The night I got drafted to the A's, obviously it was a great day of my life, but I've been a football player my whole life.

I think as a professional sportsman you're aware that your time is limited.

I grew up watching Pedroia play.

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.

He (Buck Showaleter) never even smelled a jock in the big leagues. Mr. Baseball never even got a hit in Triple-A. I was a better player than him, I have more money than him and I'm better looking than him.

I was a pitcher, shortstop and outfielder, and the Yankees tried to sign me out of high school as a first-round draft pick in 1981. I turned them down to go to college.

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

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

I'm not sure Mark McGwire was a Hall of Famer to begin with.

I'm a huge Kevin Youkilis fan.

I'm proud to be here as a man that has played first base more than anybody in the game of baseball.

I feel very fortunate to have broken in with the Milwaukee Braves organization.

When I was a little boy, my dream was to play baseball and leave Cuba.

If I wasn't an actor, I probably would've tried to get a job with the Braves.

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.