Tom Wolfe Quotes

I always dreamed of making it in baseball, but life has moved pretty quickly for me.

I loved playing baseball, and the only reason I played was to play professional baseball. I wanted that to be my career for a long time. I turned down multiple jobs and meetings because of it.

I always wanted to be a professional athlete. I love my life.

I was planning to be a baseball player until I ran into something called a curveball. And that set me back.

If I didn't make it in baseball, I won't have made it workin'. I didn't like to work.

But I was so wrapped up in sports growing up as a kid, that I think I was going to grow to be a pro ball player. But I found out real quick that was not going to happen.

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

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

Acting was something fun that my dad did, but baseball is what he really wanted to do.

I never even thought about playing professionally. I didn't think that was a possibility for a little kid from Illinois.

I remember I wanted to be an athlete. I wanted to be in the NFL or NBA or something, and I don't think I dreamed of being a benchwarmer. I'm sure I wanted to be the best. But I didn't really ever think I was going to be a famous musician.

All I have ever wanted to do is be a professional footballer.

I obviously wanted to play for the Kansas City Royals. (Laughter) I also knew that was far-fetched. The truth is I don't really know what I wanted to do.

I feel like every woman, and actually any guy who hasn't played that many sports, you secretly wonder, like, 'Would I be a pro athlete?'

I'm just going to try to do the best work at whatever I'm going to be, and I don't think I'm going to be an actress.

I like making movies and would like to make it my career when I'm finished playing football.

In Hollywood, normally things don't work out, and dreams are crushed.

You get older, and you want to be a professional athlete; you want to win on the biggest stage.

Whenever we had career day at elementary school, and we could dress up like what you wanted to be, when I got on stage, mine was playing major league baseball.

I've lost count of the times I've been asked what I do for a living. When I say rugby people say: 'Yes, but what's your other job?'

I want to do the best I can in the NBA. After three or four years, I want people to know who Scottie Pippen is.

Swimming is definitely a big passion that I have, but I was a champion for the butterfly and the free style and stuff. It was a hard decision if I wanted to move to the U.S. to get into music, but I was grateful that I had two choices and many things to do.

In life, people move on their interests and even more when money is an issue.

I wish to play again for West Ham before I finish my career.