I'd rather be a good person off the field than a good baseball player on the field.
When I was a kid, I have two dreams. I want to be a baseball player. Hometown, Hiroshima, has a Japanese baseball franchise team called Hiroshima Carps. You know, and then I want to be a sushi chef. I want to make own restaurant - sushi restaurant.
I'm not an athlete, I'm a baseball player.
Your job as a baseball player is to come to the park ready to play every day, and the manager, it's his job to make those decisions about who plays.
I am convinced that God wanted me to be a baseball player.
Growing up, I actually wanted to be a professional baseball player instead of a radio DJ. Believe it or not.
Being with a woman all night never hurt no professional baseball player. It's staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in.
I was planning to be a baseball player until I ran into something called a curveball. And that set me back.
You don't have to know anything about baseball to respond to Babe Ruth because he's just this magnificent human being. And a really good story because he was this kid who grew up essentially as an orphan, you know, had a tough life, and then he became the most successful baseball player ever. But he was also a really good guy.
I never gave up as a player, and I won't give up as someone who wants to go to the Hall of Fame, because it's the ultimate goal for a baseball player or a football player or a basketball player.