I started playing ball when I was a kid. My dad was a pro ball player and he passed on his knowledge to me.
I started out playing football in the park with my dad. My dad was a bit of a ball player, but he couldn't really be bothered playing.
I was a typical K-Swiss guy with sweatsuits. I was a ball player, so the ballers, we wore our game shorts to class. We didn't really have a fashion in high school like other kids.
A ball player has to be kept hungry to become a big leaguer. That's why no boy from a rich family has ever made the big leagues.
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.
If I would be happy, I would be a very bad ball player. With me, when I get mad, it puts energy in my body.
Honestly, I want to be known as a great ball player, but it's more important for me to be known as a good person. Like seriously, the greatest gift you have as a person is to give something to somebody else.
My father brought a basketball to the hospital when I was born, and he already had it embedded in his head that I would be a ball player.
I was not able to understand how it could be right to pay an actor, or a singer, or an instrumentalist for entertaining the public and wrong to pay a ball player for doing exactly the same thing.
I am a ball player in the summer and a farmer in the winter time, and I aim to be a success at both professions.
To be a big league ball player, you have to love the game.
As far as I'm concerned, Aaron is the best ball player of my era. He is to baseball of the last fifteen years what Joe DiMaggio was before him. He's never received the credit he's due.
It really helps you grow as an individual and a ball player to realize that nothing comes easy in this league, and you have to work for everything.
I was not successful as a ball player, as it was a game of skill.
No matter how good of a ball player you were, you can't keep going forever. You're not going to be able to hit .300 when you're 60. You still look around and you think, 'This is weird. Have I missed something?' Well, yeah, you have.
I'm going to be a Niner, you know, I've been there - that's who drafted me, gave me the opportunity to come into this league, to be a professional ball player, and I was there 10 years, man.
