That was the only day

“…It was like coming this close to your dreams, and then watching them brush past you, like a stranger in a crowd. At the time, you don't think much of it. We don't recognize our most significant moments while they're happening. Back then I thought, "Well, there'll be other days." I didn't realize that was the only day….


“…I never got to bat in the major leagues. I’d have liked to have had that chance, just once, to stare down a big-league pitcher. Stare him down, then just as he goes into his windup, wink. Make him think you know something he doesn't. That’s what I wish for. The chance to squint at a sky so blue that it hurts your eyes to look at it. To feel the tingle in your arms as you connect with the ball. To run the bases,
stretch a double into a triple, and flop face first into third. Wrap your arms around the bag. That's my wish…”

Doc. Archibald (Moonlight) Graham, played by Burt Lancaster; to Ray Kinsella, played by Kevin Costner; “Field of Dreams.”