Life is so fast. And I still remember when I came up to the big leagues and played as if it were yesterday. Time flies.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Finally, for all of us but a lucky few, the dream of playing big-time baseball is relinquished so we can get on with grown-up things.
I had a great time with baseball growing up. I was lucky to grow up with it and to learn.
I had 12 years under my belt of baseball at the amateur level before I got to the big leagues.
I always dreamed of making it in baseball, but life has moved pretty quickly for me.
Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is.
I'm in the major league now.
By far, the best moment of my big league career was when I caught the last out at the World Series.
I've had a good time here in baseball. I love baseball. That's why I'm still around.
Baseball's my life.
I knew I'd never make it back to the major leagues as a player. Lee MacPhail came to me and asked if I wanted to manage the Yankees' Fort Lauderdale club. I thought about it for a day or two and decided to take the job. That was the turning point. I knew it was what I wanted to do.
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