Quotes of: American-league Keyword

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

Dennis Quaid

I played in the Premier League for Blackpool and earned the right to go to a club like Liverpool.

Charlie Adam

He was confronted at an early age with adult-strength realizations about powerlessness, desperation, and distrust, taking his dose right alongside the overwhelmed adults. This steady stream of shocks and realizations leaves so many boys raised in poo...

A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League

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

Skeet Ulrich

You have to hit the fastball to play in the big leagues.

Ted Williams

No doubt, the White House thinks the American people know Obama's story. But since the Inauguration, we've seen only the president's present: his perfect family, his Ivy League elegance, his effortless mastery of complex issues. We never see him swea...

Dee Dee Myers

Every day I went to the ballpark in Yankee Stadium as well as on the road people were on my back. The last six years in the American League were mental hell for me. I was drained of all my desire to play baseball.

Roger Maris

Steam seems to have killed all gratitude in the hearts of sailors.

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

The league, I think, is doing well. It's growing, it's maturing, and it's becoming a better league.

Cobi Jones

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

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

Erma Bombeck

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

Yogi Berra

Anyone interested in becoming a professional umpire and becoming eligible to work in the minor leagues must attend one of the two umpire schools sanctioned by Major League Baseball.

Jim Evans

We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.

20,000 Leagues Under The Sea

It was like the Justice League of Super Heroes but instead it was the Justice League of Hot Guys.

Rock Chick Rescue

If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

Managing games comes second. Managing people comes first.

Where Nobody Knows Your Name: Life In the Minor Leagues of Baseball

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

Tug McGraw

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

I would love to see as many of the black players as possible in today's Major League Baseball make every effort to go to the Negro Leagues Museum and get a first-hand view of how it all started.

Ferguson Jenkins