Ryne Sandberg Quotes

Kids don't learn the fundamentals of baseball at the games anymore.

My father was a really good athlete, so his pop-ups really were sky high. Eventually I learned how to judge them properly and catch them well. It was great training for when I started to play on teams, which I did all through school.

Today's Little Leaguers, and there are millions of them each year, pick up how to hit and throw and field just by watching games on TV. By the time they're out of high school, the good ones are almost ready to play professional ball.

There's nothing to it. Baseball isn't that tough to play.

At 4, I joined a summer rec team called the Sugar Bears.

Pitching is 80% of the game and the other half is hitting and fielding.

I grew up in a small town in Illinois, and my dad was a basketball coach. Thanks to him, I have excellent fundamentals in both basketball and baseball.

I grew up on the softball field. Every day I would take my glove and my bat with me.

My main objective is to prepare candidates for professional baseball; however, the majority of our graduates will go home as much better qualified amateurs.

There are great amateur bodies that have good programs right from the grassroots level to professionals.

There are really smart baseball players. It's a thinking person's game.

You can't play football without having a good training pitch.

I think I've tried to have a platform to speak and to help kids understand learning about baseball.

It's always nice to be on the practice field because, ultimately, practice is the most important thing other than the game because that's where you gain your confidence; that's where you get your fundamentals.

I think the first team I ever played for was a YMCA team, probably around when I was seven years old. And really I have vague memories of it. I think, at that age, you're just trying to make sure the ball stays in bounds.

I was in an academy from the age of eight. I couldn't play for my grassroots team then.

From the time I started playing... When I tried out for a team in sixth grade and on - I was always starting through high school.

When you're in an academy, every day you're in at 9 A.M., and it's, 'Do this, do that,' but we just came with our football.

If you look at all aspects of all sports, everything comes down to basics and fundamentals.

All of us at some point have been coached by a male cricketer. I strongly believe that they get a lot of intensity into the training sessions. They are very hard taskmasters.

It is very easy to make athletes, and it is very difficult to make rugby players with that rugby instinct. I would like to think I have got a bit of rugby instinct and have become more of a rugby athlete along the way.

I played all sports growing up. Baseball was always my favorite, though.

I started playing from the age of 11-12. I loved the game immediately but started playing the game seriously only in 1993-94.

I played a lot of sports growing up. I played soccer.

I may not be the most athletic, but I understand the game.