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I wanted to be a professional baseball player. -- Balthazar Getty
I was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional baseball man. I was lying to the press. -- Roger Kahn
Since I was in high school, I wanted to play professional football and professional baseball, be a two-sport star. -- Russell Wilson
Growing up, I actually wanted to be a professional baseball player instead of a radio DJ. Believe it or not. -- Casey Kasem
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. -- David Cone
My main objective is to prepare candidates for professional baseball; however, the majority of our graduates will go home as much better qualified amateurs. -- Jim Evans
Being with a woman all night never hurt no professional baseball player. It's staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in. -- Casey Stengel
I'm no different than others with cancer. I just happen to play professional baseball. I'm part of those statistics that cancer has touched as well. -- Eric Davis
My father loved baseball and he cultivated my talent. I don't think he ever had any doubt in his mind that I would play professional baseball someday. -- Bob Feller
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. -- Tom Wolfe
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. -- Cal Ripken, Jr.
There's a bigger difference now than when I first got into professional baseball because that was before guaranteed contracts, before there was a lot of money, so it was mostly survival. You had more competition. -- Tony La Russa
Before I joined professional baseball, I started umpiring in San Diego, California. I worked 155 games in a five-month season. For three years in a row, I was working tripleheaders on Saturday and doubleheaders on Sunday. -- Doug Harvey
That's how easy baseball was for me. I'm not trying to brag or anything, but I had the knowledge before I became a professional baseball player to do all these things and know what each guy would hit. -- Willie Mays
One-third of all professional baseball players come from Latin America, and Sosa is following role models such as the late Roberto Clemente, a Puerto Rican, from whom he adopted the No. 21. Now he is a model for others. -- Bill Dedman
If you look at professional baseball in New York, you can get all 162 Yankee games on television anytime you want. But people still go to the ballpark because they are two different experiences. It's the same with film. -- Patrick Whitesell
I think I could have become an outstanding professional baseball player, but I don't think I could have reached the heights that I have in football - being one of the very top players in the game, being a world champion. -- Joe Namath
If they had rankings in baseball, maybe I would have been able to do the math and figure out my chances of being a professional baseball player versus a tennis player. But that was the decision-maker for me, I just thought I was better in tennis. -- Jim Courier
I could describe my career in two words: who knew. I was on the path to becoming a professional baseball player, but I got injured in college. When I decided to move out to L.A. to try acting, nobody was betting on me, not even my family. -- Shemar Moore
When I started in professional baseball, I had what you might call a rude awakening. See this scar right next to my left ear? That's where the pitcher hit me the very first time I came to bat as a pro. I was out cold for about 10 minutes. -- Billy Herman
I had a client who was a professional baseball player once, and he would go to clubs and dance for seven, eight, nine hours at a time. He wouldn't drink, he wouldn't take drugs - he just danced because he had so much physical energy; he was this amazing athlete. -- Martha Beck
I used to be a writer with superstitions worthy of a professional baseball player: I needed a certain desk chair and a certain armchair and a certain desk arrangement, and I could only get really useful work done between 8 P.M. and 3 A.M. Then I started to move, and I couldn't bring my chairs with me. -- Elizabeth McCracken
I could describe my career in two words: who knew. I was on the path to becoming a professional baseball player, but I got injured in college. When I decided to move out to L.A. to try acting, nobody was betting on me, not even my family. But it's always been that way for me; nothing has come easy. -- Shemar Moore
I'm not an athlete. I'm a professional baseball player. -- John Kruk
Even though I play a professional sport now, I love college baseball -- Roger Clemens
Even though I play a professional sport now, I love college baseball. -- Roger Clemens
I was a professional athlete, the best baseball player in the world at one point. -- Jose Canseco
Like any good shaman, professional baseball player, or politician, my mother always answered questions with questions. -- Sherman Alexie
I had a life-long ambition to be a professional baseball player, but nobody would sign me. -- Gerald R. Ford
I am alarmed at the subtle invasion of professional football, which is gaining preeminence over baseball. It's unthinkable. -- Branch Rickey
When a professional baseball team asks you to throw out the first pitch, that's an honor, and you do it. -- Bubba Watson
Growing up, I actually wanted to be a professional Baseball player, instead of a radio DJ. Believe it or not. -- Casey Kasem
Professional baseball is on the wane. Salaries must come down or the interest of the public must be increased in some way. -- Albert Goodwill Spalding
Baseball has done more to move America in the right direction than all of the professional patriots with all their cheap words. -- Monte Irvin
The tradition of professional baseball always has been agreeably free of chivalry. The rule is, "Do anything you can get away with." -- Heywood Broun
I have played professional baseball for over half my life. From the time I picked up a baseball glove, I did not want to put it down. -- Bernie Williams
Anyone interested in becoming a professional umpire and becoming eligible to work in the minor leagues must attend one of the two umpire schools sanctioned by Major League Baseball. -- Jim Evans

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