Ryan Sypek Quotes

My father was a really good athlete, so his pop-ups really were sky high. Eventually I learned how to judge them properly and catch them well. It was great training for when I started to play on teams, which I did all through school.

I always wanted to play cricket, and I have played competitive cricket to a fairly good level. I remember that my father used to come and watch me play. He used to love watching me play.

I never want to sit out. I want to play baseball games.

I played baseball as a left-handed first baseman, though never as well as I did quarterbacking.

I used to play cricket every day till Class X but lost touch with it ever since.

I was not a very good football player when I started out.

If you can do that - if you run, hit, run the bases, hit with power, field, throw and do all other things that are part of the game - then you're a good ballplayer.

I would have loved to have been a cricketer.

I grew up playing every sport.

I could've played basketball, but my mind was on baseball. I didn't know what I was in for. In high school it was a matter of talent. No one told you what to do.

I was a very good baseball player and football player as a kid.

I had a great time with baseball growing up. I was lucky to grow up with it and to learn.

My parents were proud of the fact that I was playing cricket, they used to ferry me around during the weekends to play the game.

I wasn't that good at football aged 14 or 15. I didn't take it too seriously.

My father got me involved in the game when I was four years old.

My dad was a football player - a soccer player - for Manchester United, and I loved playing football, but I also happened to be the guy in class who was pretty good at sight reading. My teacher gave me scripts, and I was very comfortable.

I love to play baseball. I'm a baseball player. I've always been a baseball player. I'm still a baseball player. That's who I am.

Honestly, the only thing I loved when I was a kid was basketball. I was an athlete when I was a kid, and that was it.

I was born to play baseball.

There's nothing to it. Baseball isn't that tough to play.

I was a huge athlete as a kid. I was on every sports team.

I started skating and I kind of liked it because I could run circles around the guys that wouldn't pick me to play baseball.

I was a sports nut. I stayed after school probably three hours every day - from fall, to winter, to spring. I went from football to basketball to track, and it started all over again. I loved all of it. I just loved being an athlete and all that it entailed. It really accounts for who I am today and even how I think today.

The first good player I watched as a kid was Joe DiMaggio, and that was like ballet. Since then, I played sandlot and college ball and came to understand how difficult it can be.

I played softball. I was on an all-star team. I traveled with the team. I loved it.