Dwight D. Eisenhower

I am reading a book by Dwight D. Eisenhower.
(as part of my Non-Fiction Summer Reading)

Here is a quote by him:

"When I was a small boy in Kansas, a friend of mine and I went fishing and as we sat there in the warmth of the summer afternoon on a river bank, we talked about what we wanted to do when we grew up. I told him that I wanted to be a real major league baseball player, a genuine professional like Honus Wagner. My friend said that he'd like to be president of the United States. Neither of us got our wish."

• Quoted in Baseball's Greatest Quotations (1992) by Paul Dickson; cited in "Game Day in the Majors" at the Library of Congress