Ryne Sandberg Quotes

Everybody in the minor leagues - if you're a player, an announcer, whatever - wants to be in the big leagues.

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

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.

When there were just eight teams in each of the big leagues, I was always told, 'It's hard to come up, but it's just hard to stay in the big leagues.' That's because there's always somebody. The Cardinals had so many minor league clubs and had so many good ballplayers.

At my growing years of 18 to 21 years old in the Minor Leagues, I dreamed of being a Philadelphia Phillie.

I don't think about becoming a head coach. I really don't. I'm not oblivious of people who mention it. When you are in any business, people expect to aspire to the top. I guess everyone is supposed to aspire to being the man at the top of the heap. But I never have.

You need doors to open, you need a chance - and you have got to have something, to take your chance when the door opens at the right time. My first port of call was to be a manager, then it was a successful manager, then it was a Premier League manager.

My managerial ambitions were the same as I had as a player: to become as good as possible and to join the big teams in the big leagues.

I hope to be back in management in the next future

If you've got aspirations to be a manager or coach, obviously coaching your country would be a great honour.

I've already figured out when I'm going to be No. 2 and No. 1.

I'd rather play in the major leagues and have some bad games than play consistently good ball in the minors.

My dreams do not end with playing Major League Baseball.

All ballplayers want to wind up their careers with the Cubs, Giants or Yankees. They just can't help it.

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

Once you make the majors, it's never a great feeling to go back to the minors - no matter what the circumstances.

When you're a kid growing up, you say you want to make it to the Major Leagues, and when you reach that dream, that's what it's all about.

Any time you're in the coaching business or managing in the minor leagues, when you see a player who has made it to the major leagues, you get a thrill out of that.

I can't deny that the thought of being governor, the thought of being president, is alluring. And beyond that, it would be an opportunity to make a real impact on people's lives on a global scale. But there are a lot of other things I want to do first.

Your first responsibility is to the organization, to teach and prepare players to get to the big leagues and have them ready when they get there, but everyone in the minors wants to be in the majors.

I've never said I didn't want to manage a big team. I've never had that dream - that's different.

It is something I would like to do, to be a manager, but that's not assuming I will be. It's something that I can strive towards and see where it takes us.

I played good ball in the minor leagues, and that's why they called me up to the major leagues.

You know, I spent parts of six seasons in the minor leagues and I dealt with some injuries there, I saw a lot of things. I had the safety net of being a first-round pick, so I didn't maybe necessarily experience some of that hardship firsthand, but I watched it break a lot of guys. The strain that it puts on you and your family, it's really tough.

I look at goals, like, what do I want to do and where do I want to see myself. What position to I want to be in going forward.