Little League Quotes

My dad was my Little League coach and my Cub Master.

I ran a hot-dog-and-soda stand at Little League, and I started a business planning parties in high school.

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

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

When you join the NFL, you start from scratch. As long as I’ve been playing – which has been since I was eight years old – the game becomes harder at every level. Little league, high school, college – they’re different stages you have to go through, and professional sport is completely different again.

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.

I remember making the all-star team in Little League when I was around 11 years old. I was not a great athlete, but I loved it, so making starting second base in the all-star was great for me. I think someone must have been sick and they slotted me in.

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

All American males are failed athletes, and it was big time even if it was Little League. It meant a lot to you.

My father was a Little League dictator. That really affected me, his control-freakery, his impunity, his arbitrary unreasonable power.

School work and intellectual interests such as music and the arts were not especially important to me while I was growing up, although mathematics, my favorite subject, was fun. Baseball was my first passion: I played sand lot and Little League and rooted for the Brooklyn Dodgers.

Most parents were, like, Little League coaches and all that. My dad was a wrestling fan. Instead of going out and playing home run derby with my old man, we just watched wrestling together.

We played on a sandlot all summer. There was no little league back then.

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

I would never do ‘Dancing With The Stars,’ because it’s just not fair. I am too good of a dancer. It would be like LeBron James playing little league basketball.

I played Little League. I was a ‘pitcher.’ But we had a pitching machine, so I was just basically an ‘in-infield’ shortstop because all I got to do was field bloopers six feet from the plate. I couldn’t hit, so that was pretty much my entire job.

I played Little League baseball, but I also played basketball. Basketball was my primary sport. When you play basketball seriously, a lot of times, through the summer season, you continue playing. So that replaced me playing baseball.

I thought the Little League fields were big. You look back now, and its obviously the smallest field you can play on.

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.

I love when violent, dangerous art is done by people who are not violent and dangerous. I love that when George Romero was making ‘Dawn of the Dead,’ he was coaching his son’s little league team.

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. It wasn’t until 1980 – I think I was 12 years old – that I thought, ‘Wow that’s what I want to do. I want to be on the Olympic team.’

The first sport I played was baseball. I remember being on the Little League team and someone pitching the ball to me for the first time. I was ready to no longer hit the ball off the tee, and an adult pitched it to me underhand.

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.

My relationship with my dad was a little rocky, sure. The time that I spent with him was basically two hours of Little League practice, six or seven days a week, from the age of five until whenever. If we lost, there was no talking the whole way home. But that seemed normal to me.

I love watching players improve – even as a Little League coach.

A player should be disparaged if he gives less than his all, if he doesn’t give 100%, no matter what shirt he’s wearing. Whether it’s your national team, your club, or little league. Yes, there are friendly matches, recreational ones, and so on, but sport in its essence is about giving your best.

People don’t wanna take a chance. And I just feel like that’s what it was, it’s like that in every single level I’ve been in, from little league to high school and college.

In the summertime, I played Little League baseball; football in the fall; basketball in the winter.

As a kid, I used to love to play baseball and be in Little League and sleep outside with my friends and do all those kind of things.

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.

When I played Little League, I looked up to the big leaguers, too, and collected their baseball cards.

Whether it was Little League or playing with your brothers or sisters, that was always a problem. If I would lose – because I very rarely lost – then everything would go crazy.

I had the world‘s greatest childhood. I used to hang around by the batting cage and have Hank Aaron ask me how my Little League team was doing.

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.

My folks, I don’t think my mom or my dad ever missed a little league game or a football game.