My main objective is to prepare candidates for professional baseball; however, the majority of our graduates will go home as much better qualified amateurs.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Building a baseball team is like building a house. You look for the best architects, the best builders - and then you let them do their jobs.
I wanted to be a professional baseball player.
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.
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.
Baseball gives every American boy a chance to excel, not just to be as good as someone else but to be better than someone else. This is the nature of man and the name of the game.
One of the many things I like about baseball is how it combines individual talent and teamsmanship.
I'm a baseball fan, but I'm not qualified to make baseball decisions, and I don't want to pretend to be.
Baseball is a lot like life. It's a day-to-day existence, full of ups and downs. You make the most of your opportunities in baseball as you do in life.
I know what I need to do to prepare myself, and I try to do the best I can to take care of my body and prolong my peak years as a baseball player.
We have an obligation to spread amateur baseball both at home and abroad. Building up the game at all levels - Little League, Babe Ruth Leagues, the colleges - is in our own self-interest. That's where the pool of talent is - and also of fans.