Success Quote by David Wells

There is a particular kind of swagger that only makes sense in a clubhouse: the confidence of someone riding a high, already half-laughing at the idea of a neat, movie-ready exit. David Wells delivers it in the plainspoken register of athletes who know momentum is real but fragile. "Pretty good right now" is modest on the surface, a nod to the grind and the superstition of not tempting fate. Then he swerves into fantasy: "win the whole thing" and "run off into the sunset". That phrase is pure Hollywood grammar, a wink at the camera - because sports, especially in the late-90s/early-2000s media glare, increasingly sold itself as narrative. Wells is borrowing that language to package ambition as charm.

The subtext is equal parts bravado and exhaustion. Winning isn't enough; the dream is to control the ending, to leave before decline, criticism, or injury gets to write the final chapter for you. Athletes rarely get that choice, so voicing it becomes a way to claim agency in a career defined by contracts, rotations, and the next hot prospect.

And the "say good-bye" lands with a quiet bite. It's not a sentimental farewell; it's a preemptive strike against the sport's indifference. Wells is imagining the only goodbye baseball reliably respects: one delivered with a trophy in hand, before the game can stop returning your calls.