Jerry Spinelli Quotes

When I was a kid, I wanted to be a baseball player.

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

For me, grand slams are something you dream about playing as a kid.

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

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 would say I was jock. I went to Sierra College. I was a big baseball player. Getting into the MLB was my dream - to become a left-handed pitcher for the Yankees. That's what I was hoping, but life kind of went the other way.

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.

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.

I feel like not knowing Joe Torre is a hole in my New York experience.

As a child I wanted to be a professional athlete or lawyer.

I wanted to be a professional baseball player.

I kept thinking, 'this must be the coolest job - I'd like to be a professional baseball player.' They were getting paid to play a game, and what a cool lifestyle that was.

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.

The Bronx is famous for two things. Hip-hop, and 26 world championships.

Baseball is just my job.

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

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

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.

When I went to high school, my most passionate desire was to be a professional baseball player. But something within me told me that was not going to happen.

When people asked me back then what I wanted to be when I grew up, I said a basketball player, and I meant it. But I loved going to the movies.

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

When I was a minor league player, my goal was to be a major leaguer. It's no different as a minor league manager.

One of my biggest gifts ever, my mother made a Yankee uniform for me as a little boy, and I wore it to bed dreaming I could pitch in the major leagues and then be a Yankee.

I always said as a kid that I'd like to play for United, and I once spoke to Sir Alex Ferguson about it. We chatted for around 20 minutes, and I told him that my dream was to come here to Manchester United.

I feel I have been very lucky. When you are growing up, you have dreams of being a footballer, perhaps even playing for the club you support, and I am living that dream.