For my children, they spent 15 to 20 years of their life in baseball. And Ruth and I spent so many years of our married life that that was our life. We knew nothing else.
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It was all I lived for, to play baseball.
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.
My dad and all my family were into baseball. His brothers, my mom's brothers, my mom's father. Baseball was just always a part of our family.
Baseball was one-hundred percent of my life.
Baseball's my life.
I played for 18 years, but the only thing that meant anything to me was the World Series.
Sports was my entire life as long as I can remember.
My baseball career was a long, long initiation into a single secret: At the heart of all things is love.
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 had a great time with baseball growing up. I was lucky to grow up with it and to learn.
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