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It was a dream of mine to play in all the big leagues.
You have to hit the fastball to play in the big leagues.
That was a very aha moment. It was, 'I'm in the big leagues.'
I see myself as an average to above-average catcher in the big leagues.
I was such a screwup when I got to the big leagues. I was a total idiot.
In England, somewhere. I want to be at a big team, in the big leagues again.
Sooner or later you learn that you belong in the big leagues, and that makes you calm down.
I offer a proven track record in the big leagues that can hit left-handers or right-handers.
It's one thing to make the big leagues, but it's another thing to make it to an all-star game.
I had 12 years under my belt of baseball at the amateur level before I got to the big leagues.
I know what a full season is like in the big leagues. It's not going to be a surprise anymore.
I want to finish my career in Cleveland. They gave me the opportunity to play in the big leagues.
I just wanted to go play in the big leagues. But possibly playing for the Yankees is very special.
There are more second-, third-, fourth-, fifth- and so on in the big leagues than first-round picks.
It's always going to be difficult for Asian countries to create big leagues because Europe is so settled.
I would love to get back to the big leagues as a coach, possibly a manager. I would love that opportunity.
Just as I'm fortunate to pitch in the big leagues, I'm also fortunate for the time I get to spend outdoors.
Everybody in the minor leagues - if you're a player, an announcer, whatever - wants to be in the big leagues.
There were a lot of players who worked just as hard as I did, and if you didn't, you didn't stay in the big leagues.
If I could do it over, I'd want to come up to the big leagues like Mike Trout. He's exciting and I like watching him.
Just about every Latin American country has sent players to the big leagues, from the Dominican Republic to Costa Rica.
Life is so fast. And I still remember when I came up to the big leagues and played as if it were yesterday. Time flies.
This is the big leagues; pitchers throw a lot of strikes. I feel like they attack me. That's why I go up there and swing.
I don't expect any red carpet to the big leagues. If the opportunity comes, then it comes. But I don't think I'm owed anything.
A ball player has to be kept hungry to become a big leaguer. That's why no boy from a rich family has ever made the big leagues.
Playing in the big leagues while my father is still active is the biggest thrill of my life. I try to see him play whenever I can.
I took a huge risk leaving baseball, because I was predicted to play in the big leagues. I'm kind of a prototypical second baseman.
As a 16-year-old, I was 5-foot-5 and maybe 145 pounds. It was hard to believe a guy like that was going to make it to the big leagues.
My managerial ambitions were the same as I had as a player: to become as good as possible and to join the big teams in the big leagues.
There's a moment when you come to a certain point, and if you make the leap you get to the big leagues. But if you back away, you get stuck.
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've put in 63 years now in the big leagues as a player, coach, manager. And now just being around these young guys, it keeps you going pretty good.
Even though it feels like you are so far away from the big leagues, my love for the game kept me motivated to get through the hard times in the minors.
With my quality, I feel I can bring a lot to a team that I will join. I want to show it in the big leagues: England, Italy, Spain, Germany, and France.
Anybody with ability can play in the big leagues. But to be able to trick people year in and year out the way I did, I think that was a much greater feat.
If I don't make the team out of spring training, I'll keep a good attitude. I'll just go polish up the parts of my game that made me not stay in the big leagues.
Judging ballplayers and turning in reports, giving my opinion of who will get to the big leagues and who will not... I think my baseball judgment was really good.
You can only shoot small movies and documentaries for so long if you want to have a family that you support; eventually, you need to get let into the big leagues.
You get to the big leagues, and you think, 'Can I do this stuff?' Then you take the first pitch down the middle for Strike 1, and you think, 'I could have hit that.'
Every kid in America dreams of playing in the big leagues and they don't, just because. It's not because they blew out their knee. It's just because they didn't make it.
My first year in the big leagues, I made $17,000. It was easy to go out and get another $17,000 relief pitcher. I never worried about innings or pitches. I just pitched.
Growing up, you think about playing in the big leagues one day. But to this scale, and winning a World Series in your hometown, I don't think you could have planned that.
I only wish I could have played in the big leagues when I was young enough to show what I could do. When an offer was given to me to join up, I was too old, and I knew it.
I was in the big leagues my first year in pro ball - pretty fast. I really don't think I had an understanding of what it meant to be a pitcher at that level at that point.
There's a lot of variables you can't control in trying to win a game, but at the end of the day it does mean something to win a game in the big leagues and be on the mound.
I looked up to my father when I was 7 and 8. I believed it was my calling to be in the big leagues. I'd been raised by a family that always told me I could do anything I wanted.
Hey, I think it's easy for guys to hit .300 and stay in the big leagues. Hit .200 and try to stick around as long as I did; I think it's a much greater accomplishment. That's hard.
It's a good feeling to see the kids try to make it, try to get to the big leagues. Everyone here has an opportunity to achieve his dream. I was lucky I was able to achieve my dream.
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.
The more that Japanese players go to the big leagues to play and succeed, the more that will serve to inspire young kids in Japan to want to become baseball players when they grow up.