When I was playing I never wished I was doing anything else. I think being a professional athlete is the finest thing a man can do.
Source: In Late Innings, by Roger Angell, 1982.
-- Bob Gibson, (Nov 9 1935-____), US baseball player; He pitched a record thirty-one strike-outs in the 1964 World Series; won the Cy Young Award in 1968, 1970; inducted into Baseball Hall of Fame, 1981.