A Quote by Ken Griffey Jr.
I'm lucky. I got a chance to play major-league baseball.
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Major League Baseball has the best idea of all. Three years before they'll take a kid out of college, then they have a minor league system that they put the kids in. I'm sure that if the NBA followed the same thing, there would be a lot of kids in a minor league system that still were not good enough to play in the major NBA.
I played on the 2001 team, the team that won the most games in the history of Major League Baseball and also I played on one of the worst teams of Major League Baseball.
I'm very thankful to the Yankees and to Major League Baseball for allowing me to play this game.
The chance to be a general manager in major-league baseball and for a franchise as storied as this one, probably as storied as the Giants, is great.
If the Cincinnati Reds were really the first major league baseball team, who did they play?
To be able to play baseball for those nine innings in front of a major league crowd is a special privilege.
Many of the greatest black athletes of all time played baseball for no money and no recognition. I'm just sorry many major league fans never got to see them play, because many of them were awesome.
There were a lot of places, including Los Angeles, that didn't have major league baseball. There were other really large cities that had no major league teams, but at least they had college football.
Baseball-wise, the Orioles specifically love that I haven't pitched as much as other guys coming into Major League Baseball.
My dream was to play Major League baseball. I've lived that dream.
Major League Baseball is the best league in the world, full of capable hitters up and down every single lineup.
Baseball people think they can find athletes with good bodies and teach them to play baseball. What's wrong with giving someone who already knows how to play baseball a chance? I think I fall into that category.
Whenever we had career day at elementary school, and we could dress up like what you wanted to be, when I got on stage, mine was playing major league baseball.
There's not much you can complain about - you're a Major League Baseball player; you're getting paid to play a game. People want to be you, wish they could do what you do. There are some complaints here and there, but there really aren't any significant ones.
Major league baseball is about the history of the game. Baseball history is so important. It's so much more than money.
Not everybody will get a chance to play in this league. You know, there's a transition rate of about 300 guys a year, that come into the league and leave the league. So the average career expectancy is a little bit under four years, so that doesn't mean you're gonna play forever.
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