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I always wanted to be a major-league baseball player.

When I was a kid, I wanted to be a baseball player.

I wanted to be a professional baseball player.

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

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

I wanted to play baseball!

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.

The only thing I'd ever wanted in my life was to be a major-league ballplayer, but I had to admit to myself that I wasn't good enough. It broke my heart.

I had a great time with baseball growing up. I was lucky to grow up with it and to learn.