Little League Quotes - Page 2

• My real-life athletic career was not very much. I played Little League baseball.

  Dennis Quaid

  Baseball, Real, Careers

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

  Junot Diaz

  Father, League, Arbitrary

  Interview with Meghan O'Rourke, www.slate.com. April 8, 2008.

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• 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.

  Penn Jillette

  Art, Team, Son

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

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• 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

  Sports, Baseball, Football

  American Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• We see government's mission as fostering and enabling the important realms - our businesses, service clubs, Little Leagues, churches - to flourish.

  Mitch Daniels

  Government, League, Important

  Keynote Speech to the Conservative Political Action Committee, delivered 11 February 2011, Ronald Reagan Centennial Dinner, Washington, D.C.

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• Slump? I ain't in no slump... I just ain't hitting.

  Yogi Berra

  Motivational, Baseball, Coaching

  Quoted in Sports Illustrated, 2 Apr. 1984

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• When I was 14, I played in a summer league. One night the chief umpire asked me if I would like to try umpiring. There was a Little League tournament coming up and he needed more umpires than he had.

  Jim Evans

  Summer, Night, Umpires

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• 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

  Brother, Couple, Kids

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• If people don't want to come out to the ball park, nobody's gonna stop 'em.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Change, Sports

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• 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

  Basketball, Baseball, Kids

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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

  Fall, Kids, Gay

  Anna Quindlen (2004). “Loud and Clear”, p.90, Random House

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• 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

  Baseball, Home, College

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• My daddy died when I was two years old. My mother raised my two older brothers and me. And we couldn't have had a better situation. I mean, she was the - ran the concession stand at the Little League, and she was the first woman president of The Touchdown Club, the booster club for the high school football team. And so, I had a wonderful childhood.

  Haley Barbour

  Mother, Football, Brother

  "Rep. Paul Ryan on Deficit Reduction; Gov. Haley Barbour on 2012 Presidential Politics". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. February 13, 2011.

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• I fall in love with certain stories. Those stories tend to be connected to my life some way - for instance, with my first book I was writing about the experience of coaching Little League in the Chicago inner city. But the common thread tends to be exploring some kind of mystery. Simple questions that spiral deeper.

  Daniel Coyle

  Falling In Love, Book, Writing

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• My husband and Charlie Sheen played Little League together. Theyve always been best friends.

  Heather Langenkamp

  Husband, League, Together

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• That's the fun part of it all. You get creative when you're in Little League. You're creative when you're in middle school. You're creative in high school and college. And then when you get to the league, this position, the more mobile quarterbacks, we have a tendency to want to become traditional and nervous and panicky in how we want to call plays and put guys in position to make plays.

  Kordell Stewart

  Fun, Creativity, School

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• I bet you don't know what is the first thing Little Leaguers always ask me, 'How much money do you make?'

  Rocky Bridges

  Littles, Firsts, Ask Me

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• Here's an uplifting story. Congratulations to the Little League team from Huntington Beach, California. Yeah, they beat Japan to win the Little League World Series. That's pretty good. See, that proves that when math and science aren't involved, our kids can beat anybody.

  Jay Leno

  Uplifting, Beach, Team

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• Well I loved Little League; so all the memories are pretty fond but I broke my thumb. That wasn't a lot of fun. I think probably the first time I pitched [I started out as a first baseman] and the first game I pitched in Little League, I struck out 10 batters. I had a curve ball a little early [laughs]. You're not really supposed to have one when you're 12, but I did, so I first game I struck out 10 batters. That's possibly my fondest memory.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Fun, Memories, Thinking

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• I think sports are very beneficial in the fight against obesity. I remember playing little league - I was the best person on the pitch by a long shot. It was only last weekend actually, I think I have some photos of it if you're interested.

  Zach Braff

  Sports, Fighting, Thinking

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• I can only guess that, for guys in their 30s and 40s who watched me play, they understood that the score never mattered and my paycheck never mattered (in relation) to how I played. I played with Little League enthusiasm and professional flair. That's what fans are really looking for.

  Andy Van Slyke

  Sports, Play, League

  "Answer Man: Andy Van Slyke talks slugging Bonds, coaching first". Interview with David Brown, sports.yahoo.com. May 1, 2008.

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• 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

  Sports, Dad, Wrestling

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Baseball, School, League

  "Adam Sandler Interview GROWN UPS". Interview with Sara Wayland, collider.com. June 21, 2010.

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• 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

  Mother, Father, Book

  "Workouts inspire novelist: 'No better place to plot the death of a character'". Interview with David Raterman, www.sun-sentinel.com. February 11, 2013.

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• Looking back on those days and little leaguer, the Hall of Fame is not even a blinking star, but through baseball travels and moving up the ladder, that star begins to flicker.

  Wade Boggs

  Moving On, Sports, Baseball

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