Tyler Hoechlin Quotes

By that time I was thinking a little about pro ball and hopeful that someone would draft me.

I just wanted to go play in the big leagues. But possibly playing for the Yankees is very special.

Well, I wanted to play twenty years in the major leagues. I never made it twenty though. I played nineteen.

All I have ever wanted to do is be a professional footballer.

How can you not have fun going around the country playing baseball for a living? Being a baseball player is the next best thing to being a rock star.

I obviously wanted to play for the Kansas City Royals. (Laughter) I also knew that was far-fetched. The truth is I don't really know what I wanted to do.

As a child, I wanted to be an athlete, a professional tennis player or something like that.

I got into pro ball at 18 and played until I was almost 39, non-stop.

I wanted to do two things when I was growing up, about your age. I wanted to play in the NBA, and I wanted to be a businessman after my basketball career was over, and that is what I am doing now.

As a child I wanted to be a professional athlete or lawyer.

I wanted to be a professional baseball player.

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.

To be a big league ball player, you have to love the game.

You know, when you first come up, and you get called up to the big leagues, all you want to do is just, you just want to have a career, a nice career. You want to make a living at it.

I was a professional baseball player from the time I was drafted out of high school in 1981 until the time I retired in 2003.

And then 45 years later, as I finished my career in the great city of Cleveland, that was another great way to end my career, going to the World Series.

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.

I'm very thankful to the Yankees and to Major League Baseball for allowing me to play this game.

I thought I was a pretty good shortstop, but I also wanted to play in the major leagues.

I played good ball in the minor leagues, and that's why they called me up to the major leagues.

It was my dream to have an opportunity to become a professional player.

I worked my whole life and dreamed my whole life of being a professional athlete.

I think every young man's goal is to be a professional athlete, whether it's the NBA, MLB, or the NFL.

My true dream, ever since I was a kid, was to play professional baseball. It's something that I worked my whole life for. But that didn't work out with the knee surgeries and whatnot.

I didn't think reaching the NBA was a possibility when I coached Derby in 1990. I was right out of college when I went there and was more concerned about playing a bit and getting that out of my system.