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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.
Oct 1, 2025
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's supposed to be fun, the man says 'Play Ball' not 'Work Ball' you know.
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.
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.
My life was typical. I played a little Little League baseball. I never wanted for food. I always had shoes. I had a room. There were no great tragedies. There were the typical ups and downs but I wouldn' t say it was at all sad. We were Jewish and living in the suburbs so there was a slightly neurotic bent to it, but I can't point to anything where a boy overcame a tragedy to become a comedian. As my grandmother used to say, 'I can't complain.
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.
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.
Baseball was made for kids, and grown-ups only screw it up.
Swing hard, in case they throw the ball where you're swinging.
A man has to have goals - for a day, for a lifetime.
A man has to have goals - for a day, for a lifetime - and that was mine, to have people say, 'There goes Ted Williams, the greatest hitter who ever lived.'
It helps if the hitter thinks you're a little crazy.
Hitting is fifty percent above the shoulders.
A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.
Baseball is a fun game. It beats working for a living.
I think about baseball when I wake up in the morning. I think about it all day and I dream about it at night. The only time I don't think about it is when I'm playing it.
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.
Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.
I think Little League is wonderful. It keeps the kids out of the house.
When they start the game, they don't yell, "Work ball." They say, "Play ball."
My real-life athletic career was not very much. I played Little League baseball.
Slump? I ain't in no slump... I just ain't hitting.
Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are created equal.
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.
Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?
Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.
Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.
There are three types of baseball players: Those who make it happen, those who watch it happen and those who wonder what happens.
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