I live for baseball. That's how I grew up.
Baseball is a team game.
That's everyone's motivation: to get to the playoffs and win the World Series.
Baseball is what I always wanted to do with my life.
Can you believe it. That white man hit it out of the park.
I'd like to get to the last game of the World Series at Wrigley Field and hit three homers. That was what I always wanted to do.
Against Serena, you never know how she's serving.
I love competing against the best players. I have a huge challenge, and that's to win a U.S. Open and complete the Grand Slam. I enjoy that challenge. Every year it comes around, I get excited to try to conquer that opportunity. I love it.
Now there's three things you can do in a baseball game: You can win or you can lose or it can rain.
The thing I like about baseball is that it's one-on-one. You stand up there alone, and if you make a mistake, it's your mistake. If you hit a home run, it's your home run.
You don't have to swing hard to hit a home run. If you got the timing, it'll go.
Baseball came before a lotta things in my life.
You can say baseball's fun, you're in the big leagues, you get to come to a Major League field every day - and, yeah, that's great. I love it.
I want to be a top-10 player and I want to win a Grand Slam tournament.
Everyone dreams of playing Wimbledon and winning it. I am glad this dream came true for me so fast in my career. It feels great after so many years of struggle.
When I travel to a grand slam, I need to look for a place to stay for me, my family and my team.
When I won in 2003, never in my wildest dreams did I ever think I would win Wimbledon and have my kids seeing me lift the trophy, so this is pretty surreal. And yeah, I was almost shocked in the moment that it all came together so nicely.
Baseball is my first love, and it's what I know, and it's what I'll do until I can't do it anymore, and I'm still hungry to do that.
I hit a home run in my first game, and they told me to go into the stands and pass my cap around. I made six dollars in nickels, dimes, and quarters.
I don't want to get into the U.S. Open through the back door. I want to earn it.
I had always dreamed of winning Wimbledon and when it happened it was very stressful. It was more of a relief!
Baseball began early for me. When I was 5, my father took two Little League bats and put them on a lathe. He whittled them down and sanded the bats so they were the proper size for my brother and me. He began by throwing tennis balls to us. Eventually, we practiced hitting and fielding at a field near our house.
Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.
I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.
To have Serena in the Wimbledon final, I think, is the hardest match you can have.
