If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Baseball is my escape. The sights, the sounds, the way the park smells. There is truly no place I would rather be than at a game.
I'd love to play in a Red Sox game. It would be so awesome to actually walk out on the field and play, just for one inning. I'd also steal everything I could get my hands on in the clubhouse, which is why they won't let me do it.
Making the Hall of Fame, would it be something that's gratifying because of what I've sacrificed? Sure. Baseball has been a big part of our lives. We've sacrificed our bodies. It's the way we made our living.
Without Cooperstown, you don't have baseball: Baseball is history.
Baseball's my life.
Before, if I wasn't in baseball, I wanted to become a doctor.
I'll play baseball for the Army or fight for it, whatever they want me to do.
I heard that in the United States the level of baseball was the highest in the world. So it was only natural that I would want to go there, as a baseball player.
After getting out of the service and going into baseball I never wanted to do anything else.
I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball.