League Quotes - Page 13

• With all the media attention, all the love from the fans, I felt I needed to prove myself. Prove that I'm not a marketing tool, I'm not a ploy to improve attendance. Prove I can play in this league. But I've surrendered that to God. I'm not in a battle with what everybody else thinks anymore.

  Jeremy Lin

  Thinking, Media, Play

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• Pitching in the big leagues is a dream. Preparing to pitch in the big leagues is a nightmare!

  Nolan Ryan

  Dream, Pitching, Nightmare

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• I came into the game when I broke into the major leagues, the minimum salary was seven thousand dollars, and I'd have to go home in the wintertime and get a job.

  Nolan Ryan

  Sports, Jobs, Home

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• Every writer has his favorite coterie of enemies: Mine is the East Coast literati -- those prep school playmates and their Ivy League colleagues.

  Edward Abbey

  School, Ivy, Enemy

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.34, RosettaBooks

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• I had the opportunity to play every day in the minors, and everybody knew me in the minors. In the big leagues, it was a little different. It was up and down and up and down, and I didn't get a chance to show people that I can play every day and I can be a superstar. Now, I can show everybody what they are getting from me.

  Felix Pie

  Opportunity, Play, People

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• The best all-around [running] back in the league is Jamaal Charles. He has the ability to hit a homerun from anywhere.

  LaDainian Tomlinson

  Running, Ability, Running Back

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• But the last time the Cubs won a National League pennant
  Was the year we dropped the bomb on Japan

  Steve Goodman

  Japan, Years, Bombs

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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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• The National Football league is on the wrong side of history.

  Tom Cole

  Football, Sides

  "Congress Pressures D.C. Football Team To Change Name" By Luke Johnson, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 10, 2014.

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• After so many drive-in waitresses becoming movie stars, there has been this real drought, when along come class; somebody who actually went to school, can spell, maybe even plays the piano. She may be a wispy, thin little thing, but when you see that girl, you know you're really in the presence of something. In that league there's only ever been Garbo, and the other Hepburn, and maybe Bergman. It's a rare quality, but boy, do you know when you've found it.

  Billy Wilder

  Girl, Stars, Real

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• 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

  Mean, Connections, Cooperation

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• 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

  Europe, Groups, Organisation

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• Georgie Porgie, he might buy the whole league, but he doesn't have enough money to buy fear to put in my heart.

  Pedro Martinez

  Heart, Might, Enough

  Pedro Martinez, Michael Silverman (2015). “Pedro”, p.219, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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

  Growing Up, Team, Guy

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• Everything with me is normal except when I pitch (in Fenway Park). When I pitch here it's a little different. There is a little more anxiety to go along with the nostalgia because this is the park I grew up with as a kid. This is the park I dreamed of playing Major League Baseball in and no other ballpark has that feeling for me. There are a lot more family and friends here than in my normal starts and I want to pitch well here.

  Tom Glavine

  Baseball, Kids, Anxiety

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• To win this league, the toughest league in the country, and to be outright champs is a tribute to their effort. It's a great lesson in life for our guys. It shows anything is possible.

  Thad Matta

  Country, Life Lesson, Winning

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• I always look in the Sunday paper to see where Everton are in the league - starting, of course, from the bottom up.

  Bill Shankly

  Sunday, Looks, Paper

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