Baseball Dream Quotes

#1. Baseball is green and safe. It has neither the street intimidation of basketball nor the controlled Armageddon of football ... Baseball is a green dream that happens on summer nights in safe places in unsafe cities.

Luke Salisbury

#2. Bill Gates has 90 billion dollars ... If I had 90 billion dollars, I wouldn't have it for long because I would just dream of all the crazy stuff I could do with it. This guy, 90 billion dollars. He could buy every baseball team and make them all wear dresses and still have 88 billion dollars.

Louis C.K.

#3. I'm just a normal kid who lives to play baseball. I'm living my dream.

Kerry Wood

#4. Basketball, hockey and track meets are action heaped upon action, climax upon climax, until the onlooker's responses become deadened. Baseball is for the leisurely afternoons of summer and for the unchanging dreams.

Roger Kahn

#5. Taking the GED and moving on to my dream of playing baseball was what I wanted to do, and my mom and dad supported me.

Jeremy Bonderman

#6. Playing baseball was my dream, and no amount of money could sway my opinion.

Willie Stargell

#7. I had the pleasure, as Robin said, to live a childhood dream as many young Americans and Puerto Rican children live that play youth baseball. And I feel honored and very thankful for that opportunity.

Nolan Ryan

#8. Baseball is all I ever wanted. I could eat, sleep, and dream baseball.

Smoky Joe Wood

#9. The only dream I've ever had is to become a major league baseball player.

Mark Teixeira

#10. My dream was to play football for the Oakland Raiders. But my mother thought I would get hurt playing football, so she chose baseball for me. I guess moms do know best.

Rickey Henderson

#11. I still dream about everything I achieved. I dream about my career, dream about playing baseball, meeting so many people, traveling so much.

Tony Oliva

#12. Playing baseball is not real life. It's a fantasy world ... It's a dream come true.

Dale Murphy

#13. Some kids dream of joining the circus, others of becoming a major league baseball player. I have been doubly blessed. As a member of the New York Yankees, I have gotten to do both.

Graig Nettles

#14. I think about baseball when I wake up in the morning. I think about it all day and I dream about it at night. The only time I don't think about it is when I'm playing it.

Carl Yastrzemski

#15. Baseball player. Yeah, that was my dream before acting, or alongside acting.

Shemar Moore

#16. When I was a little boy, my dream was to play baseball and leave Cuba.

William Levy

#17. I became a soldier, not because I had a military vocation initially, but because it was the only way that that young, poor-class child from the provinces could go to the center of the country: through baseball, which was my dream.

Hugo Chavez

#18. You always dream about being on a baseball card. It's kind of funny when you finally see it.

Alex Rodriguez

#19. I'm a character actor. I have to find work in good movies where I can make something of my role. I'm a very lucky guy to be in that kind of position. It's like a kid who dreams of becoming a baseball player and then he gets to play for the Yankees ...

Christopher Walken

#20. I would say I was jock. I went to Sierra College. I was a big baseball player. Getting into the MLB was my dream - to become a left-handed pitcher for the Yankees. That's what I was hoping, but life kind of went the other way.

Ryan Guzman

#21. Up until the time I was 14 years old, I was sure that I was going to be a big-league baseball player. But that dream came to a rude awakening when I got cut from my high school baseball team.

Phil Knight

#22. Baseball was a dream I gathered more splinters than hits.

Frank Perdue

#23. My dream holiday would be a) a ticket to Amsterdam b) immunity from
prosecution and c) a baseball bat.

Terry Pratchett

#24. Baseball is a rookie, his experience no bigger than the lump in his throat as he begins fulfillment of his dream.

Ernie Harwell

#25. That's one of the great gifts of this, the greatest of all games, baseball: it allows you, still, to lose yourself in a dream, to feel and remember a season of life when summer never seemed to die and the assault of cynicism hadn't begun to batter optimism.

Mike Barnicle

#26. Finally, for all of us but a lucky few, the dream of playing big-time baseball is relinquished so we can get on with grown-up things.

John Thorn

#27. My dream was to play Major League baseball. I've lived that dream.

Scott Rolen