Jake Arrieta Quotes

When I got traded to the California Angels, I really wasn't that excited about going to the Angels because it meant changing leagues and also a whole new set of teammates. But shortly after I got there I realized that it was one of the best things that ever happened to me.

How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?

I think the game has opened up, and that's why I decided to come back and try to be a part of it.

First of all, I want to thank the Buccaneers for giving me the opportunity and for picking me in the draft. This is the nature of the beast, though, and this is a new start for me. I wish them the best of luck, and I am just glad to be a Bear.

I feel very fortunate to have broken in with the Milwaukee Braves organization.

Life's picking up speed.

Switching to the outfield was the best break I ever got.

When I was traded from the Oakland A's to the Atlanta Braves before the 2005 season, a childhood dream was realized. I grew up a Braves fan just a few hours south of Atlanta, and it was hard for me to believe that I was going to actually play for the Atlanta Braves and legendary manager Bobby Cox.

But meanwhile time flies; it flies never to be regained.

I know it will take a little time to adapt to a different team and a different league.

I had been on the road for a long time and was not really getting anywhere. Bob Johnston, a friend of mine, had taken over Columbia in Nashville. He asked me if I wanted to come down. I did - thank God I did.

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

I just wanted to change my life. I wanted to change everything. The first team that called me was Toronto FC. It was a quick choice.

It would have been a short career if I had not been traded to Boston. I was rejuvenated in Boston.

I didn't start my whole rookie year.

I can't speak for the Warriors but for me and my career, being traded to the Celtics changed the trajectory of my career.

Summer runs out the way a centerfielder runs out of real estate - slowly at first, then all at once.

Now is my time. Everything I've done up to this point is just a warm up. This is where it all begins.

The ex-left-hander Dave Roberts will be going for Houston.

I grew up in Arkansas and that's the law. My dad was a high school basketball coach, so I was raised as a coach's son and I was a baseball player back in Arkansas, and I lived in Texas, too, so I was just surrounded by sports. So that's what I was going to do: Pitch for the St Louis Cardinals. I had no idea I was going to be an actor. So I got my collar bone broken in the Kansas City Royals training camp. And once I got hurt I started doing other things for a while.

A minute goes by so fearfully quick. You might as well try to stop a Bandersnatch!

For years now, the Lakers have expressed interest in having me play for them, but we could never get the stars to align. I'm finally a Laker...

Derek Jeter is one who played for such a long time, and David Ortiz in Boston is doing it right now.

I loved playing baseball, and the only reason I played was to play professional baseball. I wanted that to be my career for a long time. I turned down multiple jobs and meetings because of it.

Of all sound of all bells... most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year.