Tug McGraw Quotes

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.

My desires are simply I love to teach, I love to be in uniform, I love to throw batting practice, I love to be with the kids.

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

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.

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

Baseball was made for kids, and grown-ups only screw it up.

I won't be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat.

The great thing about Little League was that anyone could play it.

Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.

If I can make a kid smile playing baseball, that's pretty awesome.

Growing up in Bloomington, Minn., I loved the ritual of dressing for Little League - in white socks, blue stirrups, belted pants, a double-knit jersey, and the cap I'd hold over my face to screen out mosquitoes in right field.

In Little League back in Oklahoma, I struck out 14 batters in a six-inning game, and we won the state championship.

We lived near a playground that had four baseball diamonds on it, and when I got to be 11, 12 years old, I was always over at the ballpark practicing or playing or doing something pertaining to baseball. And when I wasn't doing that, I was bouncing a rubber ball off the steps of my front porch at home.

And from the first time I picked up a basketball at age eight - I had a lot of difficulty when I first picked up a basketball, because I was a scrub - there were things that I liked about it.

We want to encourage the young ones to learn and get some confidence in sports. It's fun and keeps you active and moving.

They throw the ball, I hit it. They hit the ball, I catch it.

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

That's what's great about baseball: some people are exceptional at the game, but still, even people that aren't very athletic, like me - I played Little League! It's one of those games in sports where even if you're not the greatest, you can still play.

You know what, I remember being on my T-ball team and telling people about 'Platoon.'

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

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

I had the pleasure, as Robin said, to live a childhood dream as many young Americans and Puerto Rican children live that play youth baseball. And I feel honored and very thankful for that opportunity.

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

I was a very good baseball player and football player as a kid.

I was a ballplayer, but only for a limited time. I grew up playing in Wisconsin. It's a very sports-centric part of the country that I grew up in and I played a lot of sports, but baseball first and foremost. I played through high school. I was a middle-infielder.