Ryan Guzman Quotes

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 was always interested in baseball. In fact, in my younger years, I played it in an amateur way. But up to the time when I became identified with the Yankees, I was a strong National League rooter.

The draft is a crapshoot, so I've been very fortunate to be drafted by the Yankees, and to have spent my whole career here.

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

I was set to go to Oregon to play college baseball and football.

I always dreamed of making it in baseball, but life has moved pretty quickly for me.

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

I wanted to be a professional baseball player.

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

I knew I'd never make it back to the major leagues as a player. Lee MacPhail came to me and asked if I wanted to manage the Yankees' Fort Lauderdale club. I thought about it for a day or two and decided to take the job. That was the turning point. I knew it was what I wanted to do.

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

I loved the opportunity to play for the Yankees, too.

When I was growing up, the first thing I wanted to be was a cowboy. That lasted till I was about ten. Then I wanted to be a baseball player. Preferably shortstop for the New York Yankees.

You know, when you first come up, and you get called up to the big leagues, all you want to do is just, you just want to have a career, a nice career. You want to make a living at it.

I thought I was a pretty good shortstop, but I also wanted to play in the major leagues.

Every player dreams of a big league.

There's no way I can go play for the Yankees.

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.

I played football for a huge portion of my life, all the way through college actually.

I've been a Yankees fan since I was six.

I never forgot the four years I spent with the Phillies, my September call-ups and my big league Spring Trainings. I never forgot that.

If I didn't make it in baseball, I won't have made it workin'. I didn't like to work.

I'm a Laker fan, always have been. And the New York Yankees, for sure.