League Quotes - Page 13

• They were and still are a groundbreaking band. Even though they haven't released any new music in ages, you can put on the first Black Sabbath album and it still sounds as fresh today as it did 30-odd years ago. And that's because great music has a timeless ability: To me, Sabbath are in the same league as the Beatles or Mozart. They're on the leading edge of something extraordinary.

  Rob Halford

  Years, Black, Age

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• I certainly didn't think of myself as gifted. The standards for being gifted in my environment were if you were good in Little League or if you were good in football.

  James Cameron

  Football, Thinking, Littles

  James Cameron, Brent Dunham (2012). “James Cameron: Interviews”, p.113, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I'm no longer thinking of Madrid. That dream is dead. The only thing I dream about now is Manchester United and winning the Champions League again in Rome.

  Cristiano Ronaldo

  Dream, Winning, Thinking

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• The fourth major league game I ever saw in person, I was in uniform

  Ryne Sandberg

  Games, Uniforms, Saws

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• There is no comparison between him and me; he developed a whole new way of making art and he's clearly in a league of his own. It would be like making comparisons with Warhol.

  Tracey Emin

  Art, Would Be, Way

  "Tracey Emin's Film About Institutional Sexism in Art". Interview with Sophie Leiris, www.independent.co.uk. March 12, 2006.

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• As club captain all I want to do is help us get back up the table and into the Champions League.

  Steven Gerrard

  Champions League, Clubs, Tables

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• 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

  Strong, Enlightenment, Literature

  Christopher Dawson (2010). “The Crisis of Western Education (The Works of Christopher Dawson)”, p.94, CUA Press

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• Ed (Runge), you're the second best umpire in the league. The other twenty-three are tied for first.

  Carl Yastrzemski

  Umpires, Twenties, Three

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• You know, when you first come up, and you get called up to the big leagues, all you want to do is just, you just want to have a career, a nice career. You want to make a living at it

  Rafael Palmeiro

  Sports, Nice, Careers

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• Feeling is to lose a major league game.

  Chuck Tanner

  Baseball, Games, Feelings

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• One of my chores was to milk the cows, which meant getting up before dawn and going out to that cold dark barn. I didn't expect to make it all the way to the big leagues; I just had to get way from them damn cows.

  Edd Roush

  Baseball, Dark, Dawn

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• 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

  Cancer, Average, Done

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• [On Willie Mays] He was something like zero for twenty-one the first time I saw him. His first major league hit was a home run off me and I'll never forgive myself. We might have gotten rid of Willie (Mays) forever if I'd only struck him out.

  Warren Spahn

  Running, Zero, Home

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• The announcement that there is a League of Extraordinary Gentlemen television series hasn't caused me to drastically alter my opinions. Now it seems they are recycling things that have already proven not to work.

  Alan Moore

  Gentleman, Television, Opinion

  "Alan Moore: 'League of Extraordinary Gentlemen' show is 'dustbin' hunting" by Geoff Boucher, www.ew.com. July 15, 2013.

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• It's the first time I've been cold for seven years. I was never cold playing rugby league.

  Jonathan Davis

  Rugby League, Years, Firsts

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• I played Little League for one year. That was it. Then my mother realized I liked books and threatened my father. I owe her forever for that.

  Brad Meltzer

  Mother, Father, Book

  "Workouts inspire novelist: 'No better place to plot the death of a character'". Interview with David Raterman, www.sun-sentinel.com. February 11, 2013.

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• Sadly, a U.S. invasion of Iraq 'would threaten the whole stability of the Middle East' - or so Amr Moussa, secretary-general of the Arab League, told the BBC on Tuesday. Amr's talking points are so Sept. 10: It's supposed to destabilize the Middle East. The stability of the Middle East is unique in the non-democratic world and it's the lack of change in Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Egypt that's turned them into a fetid swamp of terrorist bottom-feeders.

  Mark Steyn

  Unique, Egypt, Iran

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• It brought Pittsburgh into the picture of football teams in the National Football League that, ‘OK, you have to deal with us now.’

  Joe Greene

  Football, Team, Pittsburgh

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• All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League.

  A. Bartlett Giamatti

  President, Wanted

  Quoted in Bert Sugar, Book of Sports Quotes (1979)

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• The Arena League is the best thing that could have happened to me because I get to run the whole process. I'm seeing not only the football side but the business side

  John Elway

  Sports, Football, Running

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• I was very close to playing at an Ivy League School. The Division I schools, when a coach would come visit all he would talk about was my size.

  Doug Flutie

  School, Ivy, Division

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• LeSean McCoy has become the most exciting player in the National Football League. I believe he’s the MVP this year.

  Kurt Warner

  Football, Believe, Player

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• If you are used to going five innings and then go six or seven, you won't have your good stuff. They need to start that from the minor leagues and give pitchers strong arms.

  Juan Marichal

  Strong, Giving, Needs

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• In my 20 years in football, I was fortunate enough never to have experienced relegation. And while there is the pressure of expectations at the top of the league, at the bottom it comes in fear and trepidation, which is almost worse.

  Gary Neville

  Football, Years, Expectations

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• They're crying. It was Drogba, it was the angels, it was the heavens, it was the stars, it was the gods, it was everything for Chelsea. This is not anything to do with football. This is more than football, this is spirit. Never giving in, fighting to the end, that English spirit running right the way through this Champions League for Chelsea.

  Gary Neville

  Running, Football, Stars

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