Danny Amendola Quotes

It's a dream come true. I get to play for my hometown team, the team I grew up rooting for.

I'm excited about being here in an organization that I grew up rooting for... I'm excited about being an Atlanta Brave and pitching in Game 1.

I've always wanted to win in my hometown.

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

I love Irvine. That's my 'hood. I went to USC and used to come home every weekend. It's in my comfort zone.

I'm sitting here with the Mets, and I get to throw out the first pitch. That's one of the coolest things in the world for anybody.

Growing up, you think about playing in the big leagues one day. But to this scale, and winning a World Series in your hometown, I don't think you could have planned that.

Marystown, in Newfoundland, it's where began for me. It's where most of my family still lives and where a lot of my supporters are from.

I thought I had to show all my stuff and I almost tore the boards of the grandstand with my fastball.

I like Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City. With the waterfall and things like that, I think it's pretty cool.

To be a small town kid from Hialeah, Fla., pitching in Miami and representing Team U.S.A., that says it all. It's a kid's dream. Don't pinch me. I don't want to wake up.

From the time I was 3, I wanted to be a major-league player. To accomplish that at 35, get my name on my jersey, be in the clubhouse with major-league players, see my family for the first time in three months, be in my home state and pitch the day I got called up, was incredible.

They say the first World Series is the one you remember most. No, no no. I guarantee you don't remember that one because the fantasy world you always dreamed about is suddenly real.

We want to add an American League pennant... and to bring the World Series to Arlington.

I grew up in New Bedford, Massachusetts, and I'm a huge Red Sox fan. I've probably been to Fenway 40 times. I've been pretty lucky as a sports fan because the Patriots have won Super Bowls and the Red Sox have won World Series during my lifetime.

I miss baseball.

I would want to go to the future, 25 years in the future, and see if the Cubs ever win a World Series.

I'm lucky to have been raised in the most beautiful place - Amherst, Massachusetts, state of my heart. I'm more patriotic to Massachusetts than to almost any place.

Would I like to see baseball happen in Charlotte? Absolutely.

When I was 15 years old, I used to actually dream I was pitching in Yankee Stadium. Bill Dickey was my catcher.

I watch a lot of baseball on the radio.

Cleveland is my hometown, and the Indians have a narrow but rich history.

The time has come to disregard the exemption. Baseball is no longer a sport.

A baseball franchise belongs to the people of the city.

People ask me all the time, 'Why did I move home?' As well as I can articulate it, that's why. I moved home because I love the community that I come from.