Leaguer Quotes

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.

A ball player`s got to be kept hungry to become a big leaguer. That`s why no boy from a rich family ever made the big leagues.

As far as a truly radical conscience, you have to take it as part of a larger thing, that it was sort of historical inevitability that with the coming of a leaguer society people would start to use drugs a lot more then they had before.

As a scouting department, with the confidence we have in our player development, if a guy has the potential that we think they have and the makeup and they stay healthy, we think they will be a productive Major Leaguer. We take a lot of pride in that.

Looking back on those days and little leaguer, the Hall of Fame is not even a blinking star, but through baseball travels and moving up the ladder, that star begins to flicker.

I had given up my dream of going to be with the Dodgers ... I just wanted to be the best I could be as a minor leaguer. (Bragan) restored my drive, my passion, my dream to go to the big leagues, and I`ve loved him every since.

He`s without a doubt the No. 1 male in my life, ... I was a longtime minor leaguer going nowhere. I could do a lot of things like run, throw and field, but I was afraid of the curveball. ... He made me a switch-hitter.