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I always thought that there was going to be life after baseball, and so I designed that in my life I would have other interests after baseball that I would be able to step into. And I didn't realize the grip that baseball had on me and on my family.

I was always interested in baseball. In fact, in my younger years, I played it in an amateur way. But up to the time when I became identified with the Yankees, I was a strong National League rooter.

I enjoy baseball more than anything and would like to be involved with it forever, but the reality is your survival is determined by how well you compete, not by your fondness for the game.

I was a baseball fan myself, I wanted to play baseball.

I played baseball because I could make more money doing that than I could doing anything else.

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.

I always wanted to be a major-league baseball player.

I wanted to play baseball ever since I was 5 years old.

I always dreamed of making it in baseball, but life has moved pretty quickly for me.

When I was a kid, I wanted to be a baseball player.