There's nothing wrong with the Little League World Series that locking out the adults couldn't cure. — Mike Penner
You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you, too. — Roy Campanella
The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love. — Bryant Gumbel
Boys, baseball is a game where you gotta have fun. You do that by winning. — Dave Bristol
Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother. — Erma Bombeck
Baseball gives every American boy a chance to excel, not just to be as good as someone else but to be better than someone else. This is the nature of man and the name of the game. — Ted Williams
Baseball is more than a game. It's like life played out on a field. — Juliana Hatfield
Kids are our future, and we hope baseball has given them some idea of what it is to live together and how we can get along, whether you be black or white. — Larry Doby
Baseball is a fun game. It beats working for a living. — Phil Linz
The American boy starts swinging the bat about as soon as he can lift one. — Tris Speaker
The baseball establishment is permissive about revelry. — Curt Flood
I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball. — Pete Rose
I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more. — Harry Caray
Sports is the toy department of human life. — Howard Cosell
Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world. — Babe Ruth
I'll play out the string and leave baseball without a tear. A man can't play games his whole life. — Brooks Robinson
Make a game out of practice, you're still a child at heart — Harvey Penick
Any ballplayer that don't sign autographs for little kids ain't an American. He's a communist. — Rogers Hornsby
Baseball is like church. Many attend few understand. — Leo Durocher
Well, boys, it's a round ball and a round bat and you got to hit the ball square. — Joe Schultz
I grew up playing in an alley on the south side of Milwaukee. — Jane Kaczmarek
Well, baseball was my whole life. Nothing's ever been as fun as baseball. — Mickey Mantle
There are only two seasons - winter and Baseball. — Bill Veeck
Little League Image Quotes
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Baseball Little League Quotes
A good base stealer should make the whole infield jumpy. Whether you steal or not, you're changing the rhythm of the game. If the pitcher is concerned about you, he isn't concentrating enough on the batter. — Joe Morgan
It's hard to get lost if you don't know where you're going. — Jim Jarmusch
A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings. — Earl Wilson
I hope to arrive to my death, late, in love and a little drunk.
A good professional athlete must have the love of a little boy. And the good players feel the kind of love for the game that they did when they were Little Leaguers. — Tom Seaver
Kids should practice autographing baseballs. This is a skill that's often overlooked in Little League. — Tug McGraw
When they start the game, they don't yell, "Work ball." They say, "Play ball." — Willie Stargell
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.
A man has to have goals - for a day, for a lifetime. — Ted Williams
When I was growing up, there weren't any Little Leagues in the city. Parents worked all the time. They didn't have time to take their kids out to play baseball and football. — Mike Krzyzewski
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
I don't know what drives me to succeed. I know I want to always do the best I can.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. — Adam Sandler
Little League Football Quotes
The title race is between two horses and a little horse that needs milk and needs to learn how to jump. — Jose Mourinho
Chelsea are not made to play football. We're good on the counter, a little bit like Real against Bayern. — Eden Hazard
Affirmative action is a little like the professional football draft. The NFL awards its No. 1 draft choices to the lowest-ranked team in the league. It doesn't do this out of compassion or guilt. It's done for mutual survival. They understand that a league can only be as strong as its weakest team. — J. C. Watts
Look for something positive in every day, even if some days you have to look a little harder.
In football you need to have everything in your cake mix to make the cake taste right. One little bit of ingredient that Tony uses in his cake that gets talked about all the time is Rory's throw. Call that cinnamon and he's got a cinnamon flavoured cake. — Ian Holloway
Brendan's chihuahua doesn't do that. During the week it sleeps, eats and trains a little bit. So I have to say his chihuahua is a privileged one. — Jose Mourinho
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
Stop letting people who do so little for you control so much of your mind, feeling and emotions.
In my time, we had little league and junior league or whatever - before that, there's the sandlot. Kids played baseball wherever you can make a space. We played tackle-football on the street. Now we play basketball in the studio. We have a hoop. But we also have a pitching machine. — Raymond Pettibon
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
In the States, there's ESPN3, and each country has different options, and other than premiere league football, there tends to be very little global content. And movie and TV rights are pretty broad content. — Reed Hastings
Little League Baseball Quotes
Night baseball isn't an aberration. What's an aberration is a team that hasn't won a World Series since 1908. They tend to think of themselves as a little Williamsburg, a cute little replica of a major league franchise. Give me the Oakland A's, thank you very much. People who do it right. — George Will
As a youngster, I played in Little League, Pony League, and all sorts of amateur baseball programs growing up. — Jim Evans
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
You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.
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
I'm the youngest of five kids, and I wanted attention. And in Santa Barbara, there was lots of theater going on, so for that area, it was a little bit like playing Little League baseball. There were dance classes, theater classes, and I just loved it. — Anthony Edwards
My parents didn't know what to do with me. They got me into Little League Baseball, I played out in right field, cause I stunk. — Brian Regan
To a great mind, nothing is little.
I was playing little league baseball when Bruce Jenner was winning the gold but I don't think I was really paying attention at that time. — Dan O'Brien
We have an obligation to spread amateur baseball both at home and abroad. Building up the game at all levels - Little League, Babe Ruth Leagues, the colleges - is in our own self-interest. That's where the pool of talent is - and also of fans. — A. Bartlett Giamatti
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
My real-life athletic career was not very much. I played Little League baseball. — Dennis Quaid
I was nicknamed 'Skeeter' in Little League because I was small and fast, like a mosquito flying across the outfield. — Skeet Ulrich
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
The League of Nations is the greatest humbug in history. They cannot even protect a little nation like Armenia. They do nothing but pass useless resolutions. — David Lloyd George
Youngsters of Little League can survive undercoaching a lot better than overcoaching. — Willie Mays
I would say I'm more patient, way more patient than I was when I came in [to the league], before the injuries. But I think just going through everything, just maturing a little bit more, getting older, you start to see what it is and I'm good. — Derrick Rose
We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don't like federal agents poking around our libraries in the Red States. We coach Little League in the Blue States and have gay friends in the Red States. — Barack Obama
You never count your chickens before they hatch. I used to keep parakeets and I never counted every egg thinking I would get all eight birds. You just hoped they came out of the nest box looking all right. I'm like a swan at the moment. I look fine on top of the water but under the water my little legs are going mad. — Ian Holloway
In the Premier League you never really know what is going to happen. There is very little between the teams. — Luis Suarez
One time I was doing a speech to a group of kids, and just before I get there, I see this little kid crying. I found out they just lost a game, and he was the losing pitcher. I went over there, put my arm around him, and said, 'What are you crying for? When major league players lose, they don't cry.' — Tommy Lasorda
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
I wish I could play little league now. I'd be way better than before. — Mitch Hedberg
I had great, great times as a Little League coach. People were talking about me quitting acting, and they would say, What about your creative juices? Coaching is creative, because you could take a kid who thought he wasn't any good and, within four minutes, change his mind. And I didn't have to wait six months for them to put music to it. — James Caan
How do you want to live your life? How do you want to play the game? Do you want to play in the big leagues or in the little leagues, in the majors or the minors? Are you going to play big or play small? It's your choice. — T. Harv Eker
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
Some of my greatest memories were on a little league field. We didn't even have any uniforms. — Goose Gossage
Stereotypes fall in the face of humanity. You toodle along, thinking that all gay men wear leather after dark and should never, ever be permitted around a Little League field. And then one day your best friend from college, the one your kids adore, comes out to you. — Anna Quindlen
We were totally opposite - me coming from the West Coast and a junior college, and him [ Christopher Reeve] from the hard-core Ivy League. He used to be the studly studly of all studlies, and I was the little fool ferret boy. — Robin Williams
My dad is the reason I actually started watching wrestling. My dad was never big into sports; we were all big into sports as kids, and he'd go to our Little League games or whatever and not really know what was going on, because he didn't know about sports, but he knew about wrestling. — John Cena
I played Little League for one year. That was it. Then my mother realized I liked books and threatened my father. I owe her forever for that. — Brad Meltzer
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
You don't need Little League. You don't even need nine kids. Four is plenty-a pitcher, a batter, and a couple of shaggers. You can play ball all day long. My kids used to try to get me out there, but I'd just say, "Go play with your brothers." If kids want to do something, they'll do it. They don't need adults to do it for them. — Yogi Berra
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
The sooner that little so-and-so goes to rugby league, the better it will be for us. — Dickie Jeeps
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