I always dreamed of making it in baseball, but life has moved pretty quickly for me.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My dreams do not end with playing Major League Baseball.
Playing baseball was my dream, and no amount of money could sway my opinion.
There's a lot of things more than baseball that I want to do.
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.
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 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 just want to play baseball.
I had dreams of catching the ball for the final out in the World Series and being mobbed by my teammates. Well, I guess all my dreams didn't come true.
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.