My message to a lot of guys is, if you like school and you like education, baseball is gonna be there, and you can get some of the same great competition in college that you do in the low minor leagues.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Even though I play a professional sport now, I love college baseball.
If you're in the minor leagues, you want to get to the majors.
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.
Baseball gives every American boy a chance to excel, not just to be as good as someone else but to be better than someone else. This is the nature of man and the name of the game.
Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.
I live in L.A., so I go to basketball games. But I love baseball.
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.
Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game - and do it by watching first some high school or small-town teams.
I had an opportunity to play baseball in college, but I just didn't want to go to school. I started focusing on my music and it was game over!