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

I was born to play baseball.

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.

My little brothers loved baseball. I'm not as big on that as basketball or football, but I understand the game.

I played softball for a few years growing up. Both my brothers played baseball.

For me, baseball just brings up a lot of nostalgic, happy feelings because I enjoyed it as a kid, and I liked being out there playing in the sun, and it was a simpler time for all of us.

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

Almost all of us growing up have played baseball on some level. It has an inside track with people. It has a unifying effect.

My dad was my coach in baseball and early on in basketball, so playing baseball was something we always did.

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.