Little League Quotes

• Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.

  Yogi Berra

  Baseball, Yankees, League

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• I think Little League is wonderful. It keeps the kids out of the house.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Sports, Baseball

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• I was nicknamed 'Skeeter' in Little League because I was small and fast, like a mosquito flying across the outfield.

  Skeet Ulrich

  League, Flying, Mosquitoes

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Kids should practice autographing baseballs. This is a skill that's often overlooked in Little League.

  Tug McGraw

  Baseball, Kids, Practice

  Tug McGraw, Don Yaeger (2005). “Ya Gotta Believe!: My Roller-Coaster Life as a Screwball Pitcher and Part-Time Father, and My Hope-Filled Fight Against Brain Cancer”, Signet

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• Generally in the Little League you're up against a good pitcher who throws like hell. What does the coach say? Get a walk. Isn't that beautiful way to learn to hit? For four years you stand up there looking for a walk.

  Robin Roberts

  Beautiful, Years, League

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• I wish I could play little league now. I'd be way better than before.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Play

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• I guess that's what Little League is all about -- trying.

  Nolan Ryan

  League, Trying, Littles

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• The biggest thrill a ballplayer can have is when your son takes after you. That happened when my Bobby was in his championship Little League game. He really showed me something. Struck out three times. Made an error that lost the game. Parents were throwing things at our car and swearing at us as we drove off. Gosh, I was proud.

  Bob Uecker

  Son, Errors, Games

  Bill Schroeder, Drew Olson, Craig Counsell, Bob Uecker (2016). “If These Walls Could Talk: Milwaukee Brewers: Stories from the Milwaukee Brewers Dugout, Locker Room, and Press Box”, p.46, Triumph Books

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• You're playing a game, whether it's Little League or Game 7 of the Word Series. It's impossible to do well unless you're having a good time. People talk about pressure. Yeah, there's pressure. But I just look at it as fun.

  Derek Jeter

  Success, Fun, Winning

  "Derek Jeter: In his own words". Sports Illustrated interview, www.si.com. November 30, 2009.

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• Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.

  Erma Bombeck

  Mom, Mother, White

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• There is no life for girls in team sports past
  Little League. I got into tennis when I realized this, and because I
  thought golf would be too slow for me, and I was too scared to swim.

  Billie Jean King

  Girl, Sports, Team

  FaceBook post by Billie Jean King from May 15, 2010

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• On My Last-Place Finish in the 50-Yard Dash During Little League Tryouts “It kinda looked like you were being attacked by a bunch of bees or something. Then when I saw the fat kid with the watch who was timing you start laughing…. Well, I’ll just say it’s never a good sign when a fat kid laughs at you.

  Justin Halpern

  Kids, League, Laughing

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• I keep trying to tell people that Los Angeles is already the largest Indian city in the U.S., that there are Toltecs playing Little League baseball in Pasadena, Mayans making beds at the Marriott in Westwood, and Chichimecs driving buses in L.A. Los Angeles is a majority-Indian city.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Baseball, Cities, League

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I played maybe one and a half games of Little League. The whole atmosphere of anxious parents and more anxious children was just too much for me.

  Harrison Ford

  Children, Games, League

  "42 Interview with Harrison Ford, Chadwick Boseman & Brian Helgeland". www.moviesonline.ca.

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• I guess I was maybe in little league baseball as far as I wanted to be good at that. But school, I certainly wasn't the best at that. But comedy thing and making movies and stuff, I love it so much that I do get driven to push myself as hard as I can.

  Adam Sandler

  Baseball, School, League

  "Dub Q&A: Adam Sandler". Interview with Fred Topel, www.dubmagazine.com. June 9, 2010.

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• Some of my greatest memories were on a little league field. We didn't even have any uniforms.

  Goose Gossage

  Memories, League, Littles

  "Rich "Goose" Gossage". Interview with Chris Yandek, www.cyinterview.com. May 4, 2007.

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• I sponsored every team in the Park Slope Little League for years.I sponsor two soccer teams in England, one of which is called Broadley F.C. A kid wrote to me through Facebook because they started a team in honor of their friend who died of leukemia, and he played in the band of this very obscure team in England.

  Adam Richman

  Soccer, Team, Kids

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Youngsters of Little League can survive undercoaching a lot better than overcoaching.

  Willie Mays

  League, Littles, Youngsters

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• I grew up with baseball; I played in Little League and went to games with my dad. But I, as I grew up, became more of a basketball fanatic than a baseball one.

  Jonah Hill

  Inspirational, Basketball, Baseball

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. September 21, 2011.

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• I used to go to my kids' soccer games and I was the only parent who wasn't screaming, because I'd have to do a show that night. It was hard. Moms and dads get more emotional at those soccer and Little League games than at a professional game.

  Neil Diamond

  Soccer, Mom, Dad

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• I certainly didn't think of myself as gifted. The standards for being gifted in my environment were if you were good in Little League or if you were good in football.

  James Cameron

  Football, Thinking, League

  James Cameron, Brent Dunham (2012). “James Cameron: Interviews”, p.113, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I played no sports well. Because I was a boy in the United States Of America, I was forced into Little League and played horrible Little League baseball, and played football and basketball in school situations where I was forced to.

  Ira Glass

  Basketball, Sports, Baseball

  "Ira Glass on doing magic tricks, Brad Pitt, and Emerson, Lake & Palmer". Interview with Esther Zuckerman, www.avclub.com. August 2, 2016.

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• Most of what I learned about baseball came from great coaches, beginning with my father, then Bob [Buchelle], when I`d made it into the seated row of Little League in [Dorchester], then Dan Burke, [John Balfe], the great Henry Lane.

  Donald Trump

  Baseball, Father, League

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• As a youngster, I played in Little League, Pony League, and all sorts of amateur baseball programs growing up.

  Jim Evans

  Baseball, Growing Up, Pregnancy

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• It was always just trying to move to the next limit. I didn't think about making the major leagues - every kid has that dream, I had it, but when I was in Little League I just wanted to make the junior high team. When I was in junior high, I wanted to make the Varsity team.

  Jim Abbott

  Dream, Team, Moving

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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