William Levy Quotes

Well, you know, I left Cuba as a kid when I was 6 years old back in 1971.

It was always a dream of mine to play for the Orioles.

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

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

In Romania, of course, gymnastics is among the most popular sports, and my parents had a dream of escaping the Ceausescu regime and giving their child a better life. So they came to the United States and put me in gymnastics.

I miss baseball.

Playing baseball for a living is like having a license to steal.

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.

If I could do it over, I'd want to come up to the big leagues like Mike Trout. He's exciting and I like watching him.

I respect Fidel Castro. You know why? A lot of people have wanted to kill Fidel Castro for the last 60 years, but that fucker is still here.

America always seemed to me this foreign land that I imagined I could escape to if I needed to get away - and I think that came both from the fact that I was born there and from watching so many American movies when I was a kid.

When I grew up, baseball was the No. 1 sport.

My mother made the courageous decision to flee a tyrannized Cuba in the 1950s and bring her children to the United States, where I was born.

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

I was sort of obsessed with the Phillies as a young kid.

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

You're innocent when you dream.

She was married for seven years to a concrete castle king. She said she wanted to learn to play the guitar and to hear her children sing. So I'd show up about once a week in my faded tight-legged jeans with a backlog full of hobo stories and dilapidated dreams.

Free, only want to be free, we huddle close, hang on to a dream.

This is Rickey calling on behalf of Rickey. Rickey wants to play baseball.

I grew up in Arkansas and that's the law. My dad was a high school basketball coach, so I was raised as a coach's son and I was a baseball player back in Arkansas, and I lived in Texas, too, so I was just surrounded by sports. So that's what I was going to do: Pitch for the St Louis Cardinals. I had no idea I was going to be an actor. So I got my collar bone broken in the Kansas City Royals training camp. And once I got hurt I started doing other things for a while.