When you're a kid growing up, you say you want to make it to the Major Leagues, and when you reach that dream, that's what it's all about.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
This is the thing you dream about when you're a kid, even before getting into the league.
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.
If you're in the minor leagues, you want to get to the majors.
My dreams do not end with playing Major League Baseball.
Any time you're in the coaching business or managing in the minor leagues, when you see a player who has made it to the major leagues, you get a thrill out of that.
At my growing years of 18 to 21 years old in the Minor Leagues, I dreamed of being a Philadelphia Phillie.
I always dreamed of making it in baseball, but life has moved pretty quickly for me.
Every kid in America dreams of playing in the big leagues and they don't, just because. It's not because they blew out their knee. It's just because they didn't make it.
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.
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.