The only thing I'd ever wanted in my life was to be a major-league ballplayer, but I had to admit to myself that I wasn't good enough. It broke my heart.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Always wanted to be a Major League player. Loved baseball. Followed it. Loved to play. Plus, I could always hit.
I always wanted to be a major-league baseball player.
I was pretty much seen as a basketball player coming out of high school. Football was my second love, but luckily, I turned out to be pretty good. Something just drew me to football; besides, I ended up being too short for my position in basketball.
All I wanted to be was a player.
When I was a kid, I wanted to be a baseball player.
I wanted to definitely be a musician or a good preacher or a heck of a baseball player. I couldn't play ball too good - I hurt my finger, and I stopped that. I couldn't preach, and well, all I had left was getting into the music thing.
Since I was in high school, I wanted to play professional football and professional baseball, be a two-sport star.
I wanted to be a football player. Football is a sport that I love, but the more I started playing basketball, the more I started dreaming of playing in the NBA.
Up until the time I was 14 years old, I was sure that I was going to be a big-league baseball player. But that dream came to a rude awakening when I got cut from my high school baseball team.
The only thing I ever wanted to be was a professional football player.