Takeru Kobayashi Quotes

To put on the pinstripe - it's extraordinary. Just being able to play one game with the Yankees is quite an honor.

I'd love to play in a Red Sox game. It would be so awesome to actually walk out on the field and play, just for one inning. I'd also steal everything I could get my hands on in the clubhouse, which is why they won't let me do it.

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

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.

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

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

You don't protect Mark McGwire. The only way to protect him is hit 70 homers yourself.

Baseball is just my job.

I think I have a pretty goofy profile for a writer. It seems to me most writers were reading 'Little Women' when they were 6 months old. At the age of a lot of my readers, I wanted to be a major league baseball player. I didn't read much.

My favorite sport is baseball; my cousin is pitcher Heath Bell.

I was a professional baseball player from the time I was drafted out of high school in 1981 until the time I retired in 2003.

I wanted to play baseball ever since I was 5 years old.

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

I was a fan of baseball growing up. We played baseball; I used to play in an A&P parking lot. It wasn't always easy to find a good baseball field to play in.

Maybe in another life, I wanna be Aaron Judge.

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

Baseball player. Yeah, that was my dream before acting, or alongside acting.

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

When I was a kid, I have two dreams. I want to be a baseball player. Hometown, Hiroshima, has a Japanese baseball franchise team called Hiroshima Carps. You know, and then I want to be a sushi chef. I want to make own restaurant - sushi restaurant.

I miss baseball.

When I was traded from the Oakland A's to the Atlanta Braves before the 2005 season, a childhood dream was realized. I grew up a Braves fan just a few hours south of Atlanta, and it was hard for me to believe that I was going to actually play for the Atlanta Braves and legendary manager Bobby Cox.

I'd like to think a baseball picture is somewhere in my future.

I always tried to be Mark McGwire and hit homers like he did. I was kind of following his race, too, when he was trying to break the record.

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

I played right field in Minor Leagues a lot before I started playing centerfield.