I think there are some players born to play ball.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Maybe I was born to play ball. Maybe I truly was.
I was born to play baseball.
A great ballplayer is a player who will take a chance.
I started playing ball when I was a kid. My dad was a pro ball player and he passed on his knowledge to me.
Today's Little Leaguers, and there are millions of them each year, pick up how to hit and throw and field just by watching games on TV. By the time they're out of high school, the good ones are almost ready to play professional ball.
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.
My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players.
The players have competed on the level the last 25 or 30 years are always going to be the players that compete at a high level. These guys practice hard, they work on their game, they still hit the ball extremely well.
The way I grew up playing, and the way most Americans have grown up, is that you hit the ball up in the air and then it stops where it lands.
Training's completely different now. It used to be a lot of running and work without the ball. Now it's all with the ball, which any player loves.
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