Baseball Recruiting Quotes

Just about every Latin American country has sent players to the big leagues, from the Dominican Republic to Costa Rica.

It was part of my recruiting to go to Cal because they knew I loved to play baseball. I don't know if I was good enough to make the team, but I worked out with the guys, and it was a lot of fun.

I figured that pitchers had a better chance of getting drafted than fielders, so I decided I should be a pitcher. But I never expected to be picked in the first round. I wasn't even sure I'd get picked at all.

I was a ballplayer, but only for a limited time. I grew up playing in Wisconsin. It's a very sports-centric part of the country that I grew up in and I played a lot of sports, but baseball first and foremost. I played through high school. I was a middle-infielder.

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

Lou Gorman gave my number to a non-roster player the year after I left.

The reason I didn't take the baseball route is because they don't have rankings for baseball players.

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

I wanted to be a professional baseball player.

I heard that in the United States the level of baseball was the highest in the world. So it was only natural that I would want to go there, as a baseball player.

I know I never saw Casey Stengel when I was being scouted. And how could you be in a ballpark and not know if Casey Stengel was there?

My main objective is to prepare candidates for professional baseball; however, the majority of our graduates will go home as much better qualified amateurs.