Jacob deGrom Quotes

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

The Oakland A's, I loved all my teammates there. I loved all the coaches. They gave me the opportunity to play in the big leagues. And for that, I thank them. I mean it was a dream come true for me.

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

I had 12 years under my belt of baseball at the amateur level before I got to the big leagues.

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

Always wanted to be a Major League player. Loved baseball. Followed it. Loved to play. Plus, I could always hit.

I'm very thankful to the Yankees and to Major League Baseball for allowing me to play this game.

I want to finish my career in Cleveland. They gave me the opportunity to play in the big leagues.

If you're in the minor leagues, you want to get to the majors.

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.

I don't want to be one of those great players who never made it to the Series.

I started in the lowest league in baseball, and I worked my way all the way up to Triple A and then to the big leagues. I never reached the level that I thought I would reach as a player. But that's the way it goes. So then I started from the bottom as a manager, and I worked my way up to managing the Dodgers for 20 years.

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

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.

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.

Baseball cannot be learned as a trade. It begins with the sport of the schoolboy, and though it may end in the professional, I am sure there is not a single one of these who learned the game with the expectation of making it a business. There have been years in the life of each during which he must have ate and drank and dreamed baseball.

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

Once you leave the minor leagues, you want to not come back. But it's the path that I'm on, the journey that I'm on.

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

Until spring training in 1946, the only time I pitched was in 1945 in the GI World Series.

The owner of the New York Yankees, Mr. George Steinbrenner who I had the greatest respect for, I want to thank him for giving me the opportunity to win that special ring in 1996.

The Cubs gave me a chance to play. They signed me as a free agent and brought me to the Major Leagues. The first day I walked into Wrigley Field was one of the best days of my life. And I owe them an awful lot.

Baseball has been very good to me.

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.

I was a huge fan of Bobby Cox, a huge fan of Chipper Jones and John Smoltz. And just those guys, I grew up watching those guys and often wondered early on in my career if I would ever have the chance to play for the Atlanta Braves, and there it was. God kind of answered my prayers.