League famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League.
-- A. Bartlett Giamatti -
To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.
-- A. Bartlett Giamatti -
To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
-- Abraham Joshua Heschel -
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 -
The exclusion of true esoteric religion has been the business of the State since ancient times. At first this was done via the establishment of the popular idealism of exoteric religious institutions in league with the State. But in modern times the same process is done by the strategic exclusion of conventional religious cultism, mystical idealism, and higher evolutionary Wisdom from the mechanisms of popular culture.
-- Adi Da -
The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson -
I want to help Manchester United win the Premier League and become the best player in the world.
-- Adnan -
It must be thoroughly understood that the lost land will never be won back by solemn appeals to the God, nor by hopes in any League of Nations, but only by the force of arms.
-- Adolf Hitler -
League is much, much more physical than Union, and that's before anyone starts breaking the rules.
-- Adrian Hadley -
It hurt me a great deal. It put a lot of pressure on me because I was at a young age and the writers around here and throughout the league starting comparing me to Cobb. It put a lot of pressure on me.
-- Al Kaline -
All of a sudden I'm in the major leagues and we're traveling from town to town. I see the other players dressing different every day. I've got only one suit and I keep wearing it over and over. I'm really embarrassed.
-- Al Kaline -
It's important that top clubs don't lose sight of the fact that it's the English Premier League and English players should be involved.
-- Alan Pardew -
I tried to push him away with my head. I apologise to everyone. I should not have got involved in it.
-- Alan Pardew -
I said to NFL spokesman Greg Aiello, 'You realize that's the first time anybody associated with the league has made that connection?' And I remember, he was a litttle... annoyed. He was annoyed.
-- Alan Schwarz -
I never worried about teams who spend what they want to spend. It never bothered me. At the moment we have a lot of Middle Eastern owners, we have American owners of course, Russian owners. It never bothered me one bit. All I was concerned about was that we at United maintained our level of expectation, be competitive, be at the top part of the Premier League.
-- Alex Ferguson -
Manchester United might not win Premier League every year, but we'd always be up there competing for it every year.
-- Alex Ferguson -
I bet him he wouldn't get 15 league goals and I'm going to have to change my bet with him. If he gets to 15 I can change it and I am allowed to do that because I'm the manager. I'm going to make it 150 now!
-- Alex Ferguson -
I'm looking forward to meeting my new team-mates and to be playing for Arsenal in the Premier League and Champions League. I will give my best to Arsenal and want to make all the supporters happy.
-- Alexis Sanchez -
The tribunal here and your American newspapers talk so much about our sharp Nazi methods, but do you realize that within the past year, since the defeat of Germany, 1 million Germans have been evicted from what was originally German territory and which has now been given to Poland? No League of Nations or other body intervened.
-- Alfred Rosenberg -
I'm reachable for people, I'm not out of their league. I'm just a normal girl.
-- Alicia Silverstone -
I like Arsene for his principles but principles are sort of a restriction and restrictions are always lost possibilities.
-- Alisher Usmanov -
In the 21st Century, the anti-traditional marriage community is in league with the anti-life community, and together with the NAACP and other sympathizers, they are seeking a world where homosexual marriage and abortion will supposedly set the captives free.
-- Alveda King -
The call to make that decision is not mine, because obviously I won't resign and I'm not a quitter.
-- Andre Villas-Boas -
Not too many people know how hard I have worked since I broke my jaw. I have been flogging myself on the training paddock.
-- Andrew Johns -
You know how you just don't like guys on the other team sometimes? It's funny because growing up I loved Roger (Clemens), loved to watch Roger pitch. Then when I was first in the big leagues and he was for the other team, I hated him.
-- Andy Pettitte -
My biggest problem in the big leagues is that I can't figure out how to spend forty-three dollars in meal money.
-- Andy Van Slyke -
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 -
This means that the search for a formula of European cooperation in connection with the League of Nations, far from weakening the authority of this latter must and can only tend to strengthen it, for it is closely connected with its aims.
-- Aristide Briand -
The European organisation contemplated could not oppose any ethnic group, on other continents or in Europe itself, outside of the League of Nations, any more than it could oppose the League of Nations.
-- Aristide Briand -
It is always a danger when you have a big game ahead, but there is only one way to prepare well for our Champions League game - and that is to do well tomorrow. Therefore, I feel there is a lot at stake for us tomorrow. It is a massive game for us.
-- Arsene Wenger -
As ships becalmed at eve, that lay With canvas drooping, side by side, Two towers of sail, at dawn of day Are scarce, long leagues apart, descried.
-- Arthur Hugh Clough -
I came to AS Roma to play in the Champions League
-- Ashley Cole -
It does not make a goalkeeper look good and, after it, I did not want to celebrate out of respect for him.
-- Asmir Begovic -
I'd like to help educate kids about the Major Leagues - what to anticipate, what to expect, what they'll need to do to prepare themselves
-- Barry Bonds -
We're going to be the best in the league at something. We're deep in anthem singers.
-- Barry Trotz -
I looked up to my father when I was 7 and 8. I believed it was my calling to be in the big leagues. I'd been raised by a family that always told me I could do anything I wanted.
-- Barry Zito -
Big league defense is going to get outs most times.
-- Barry Zito -
So, who in the media is without sin among us? I am in the media and I am a major league sinner. I don't know anyone except my wife who isn't a big time sinner.
-- Ben Stein -
I was very nervous, excited, and happy to be given the opportunity to even be in the major leagues.
-- Bengie Molina -
There's a lot of disrespect in the major leagues. I believe that the disrespect in the major leagues is at a high rate and is really bad for the gam
-- Bengie Molina -
This morning I was standing in the shower and thought how I was sick of losing and how it was about time I had a big game.
-- Benji Marshall -
I was playing like a rugby league player with 14 rugby players.
-- Benji Marshall -
Well, I wanted to play twenty years in the major leagues. I never made it twenty though. I played nineteen.
-- Bert Campaneris -
Letting him manage in the major leagues is like sending Bo Derek through cellblock A without a bodyguard.
-- Bill James -
When I've got nothing better to do, I look down the league table to see how Everton are getting along.
-- Bill Shankly -
I always look in the Sunday paper to see where Everton are in the league - starting, of course, from the bottom up.
-- Bill Shankly -
Steve Nash is the most unathletic player in the league.
-- Bill Walton -
You know, I'd actually say Lionel Messi. He's so remarkable, watching him play he's probably still undervalued. When you're scoring five goals in one Champions League match, there's no value that's too high.
-- Billy Beane -
We had a strong relationship with Walter Brown, and felt that he was the best owner in the league.
-- Bob Cousy -
Baseball in the Navy always was much more fun than it had been in the major leagues.
-- Bob Feller -
Between me and my roommate, we've hit 400 Major League home runs.
-- Bob Uecker -
And that's why, you know, it's players like Randy Moss that unfortunately put a stain on the entire league.
-- Boomer Esiason -
Me and Tricky like playing with each other.
-- Braith Anasta -
I can categorically tell you that Mario Balotelli will not be at Liverpool.
-- Brendan Rodgers -
Look at Tottenham. You spend over £100-odd million, you'd expect to be challenging for the league.
-- Brendan Rodgers -
They have a choice as a club. They don't have to sell. Maybe Southampton's objectives have changed. They were looking to be a Champions League club, I believe. They obviously wanted to change... I don't have sympathy, no.
-- Brendan Rodgers -
I was surprised we were playing in Manchester and have a referee from Greater Manchester.
-- Brendan Rodgers -
As Joel said, there's a bit more licence to attack over here, whereas the NRL is a bit more grinding-type football.
-- Brett Finch -
The quality of players - the likes of Sam Tomkins, Rangi Chase and Lee Briers - bring an X-factor to the game. It's highly entertaining and it's something probably that the Australian game lacks a bit.
-- Brett Finch -
We saw a fair bit of video on them towards the back end of the week and we were licking our lips.
-- Brett Morris -
If there was a Harlem Globetrotters of rugby league, he’d be in it.
-- Brett Morris -
I don't know if it can happen, but apparently I might get divorced before I get married.
-- Brett White -
Come and see my coaching certificates - they're called the European Cup and league championships,
-- Brian Clough -
I'm a Major League 3rd Baseman. If you want to go play in parking lot, I'm suppose to stop the ball.
-- Brooks Robinson -
Say this much for big league baseball - it is beyond question the greatest conversation piece ever invented in America.
-- Bruce Catton -
My first year in the big leagues, I made $17,000. It was easy to go out and get another $17,000 relief pitcher. I never worried about innings or pitches. I just pitched.
-- Bruce Sutter -
By far, the best moment of my big league career was when I caught the last out at the World Series.
-- Cal Ripken, Jr. -
Tom Brady is good, real good...but he plays in same league as I do.
-- Cam Newton -
Women are in league with each other, a secret conspiracy of hearts and pheromones
-- Camille Paglia -
This is a sad day for the Minnesota Twins, Major League Baseball and baseball fans everywhere. I loved Kirby deeply. A tremendous teammate, Kirby will always be remembered for his never-ending hustle, infectious personality, trademark smile and commitment to the community.
-- Carl Pohlad -
Ed (Runge), you're the second best umpire in the league. The other twenty-three are tied for first.
-- Carl Yastrzemski -
I'll take account of things at the end of the season. Now I'm expecting a good finish to the league season.
-- Carlo Ancelotti -
Major League Baseball should retire Roberto Clemente's number, just like they did Jackie Robinson's.
-- Carlos Beltran -
He (Mickey Mantle) should lead the league in everything. With his combination of speed and power he should win the triple batting crown every year. In fact, he should do anything he wants to do.
-- Casey Stengel -
If I had done everything I was supposed to, I'd be leading the league in homers, have the highest batting average, have given $100,000 to the Cancer Fund and be married to Marie Osmond.
-- Catfish Hunter -
The trouble with magic is that there's too much it just can't fix. When things go wrong, glimpsing junkyard faerie and crows that can turn into girls and back again doesn't help much. The useful magic's never at hand. The three wishes and the genies in bottles, seven-league boots, invisible cloaks and all. They stay in the stories, while out here in the wide world we have to muddle through as best we can on our own.
-- Charles de Lint -
Playing with Aaron Rodgers, every time I went into a game you always felt like no matter what happens, he was going to bail you out somehow. He was that kind of guy. He was one of the three or four guys you have in the league right now that no matter where you are or what’s going on in the game, you have a chance with him.
-- Charles Woodson -
I always wanted to be a player, but I never had the talent to make the big leagues. So I did the next best thing: I bought a team.
-- Charlie Finley -
A lot of people think Major League's called Wild Thing. As they should.
-- Charlie Sheen -
Trevino is in a league by himself. We don't even count him. We figure when you come in second, you're a winner.
-- Chi Chi Rodriguez -
I did not threaten anybody in any moment and even less with a brick.
-- Chico Flores -
You can go down a list of footballers since the Premier League and I don't think David Beckham would probably be in the first 1,000.
-- Chris Waddle -
I've been in the league 12 years. To sit on the bench and complain about the way things were, that doesn't get anything done. I don't know. I'm playing for a championship and trying to make the playoffs. My effort has never changed.
-- Chris Webber -
I found that part of it towards San Salvador extending from north to south five leagues, and the other side which we coasted along, ran from east to west more than ten leagues.
-- Christopher Columbus -
The sublimated idealism of the Enlightenment, the spirit of the League of Nations and of the United Nations Charter have not proved strong enough to control the aggressive dynamism of nationalism.
-- Christopher Dawson -
You cannot make mistakes in the Champions League.
-- Claudio Ranieri -
In south west Lancashire, babies don't toddle, they side-step. Queuing women talk of 'nipping round the blindside'. Rugby league provides our cultural adrenalin. It's a physical manifestation of our rules of life, comradeship, honest endeavour, and a staunch, often ponderous allegiance to fair play.
-- Colin Welland -
Every sinew in my body came together in one perfect whole. But those who have ever experienced that feeling, and it doesn't happen very often, will tell you it's in a whole other place of experience from the usual ego or vanity that drives my game. So I'm not afraid to own it for what it was.
-- Cooper Cronk -
Arsenal are streets ahead of everyone in this league and Manchester United are up there with them.
-- Craig Bellamy -
Bloody Jackson - he can land it on a 20 cent piece. Trouble is, it's usually in a bloke's pocket in the grandstand.
-- Craig Coleman
