League Quotes - Page 24

• I'm sure Putnam is right that there's been a decline in certain kinds of organizations like bowling leagues. But people participate in communities in other ways.

  Peter L. Berger

  Aggravation, Organization, People

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• I guess that's what Little League is all about -- trying.

  Nolan Ryan

  Trying, Littles, Little League

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• In the big leagues everyone has ability. It always comes down to mind games. Who ever is more mentally strong-wins.

  Muhammad Ali

  Strong, Winning, Games

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• My daddy died when I was two years old. My mother raised my two older brothers and me. And we couldn't have had a better situation. I mean, she was the - ran the concession stand at the Little League, and she was the first woman president of The Touchdown Club, the booster club for the high school football team. And so, I had a wonderful childhood.

  Haley Barbour

  Mother, Football, Brother

  "Rep. Paul Ryan on Deficit Reduction; Gov. Haley Barbour on 2012 Presidential Politics". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. February 13, 2011.

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• One of the things I want ... all the kids here to remember, is that these [Major League Soccer] stars were not born superstar athletes ... Many of them started out just like many of you-playing on a team at school, or just kicking a ball around on the playground with their friends. But they stuck with it. And I tell this to my girls all the time. I mean, you get to the point when ... things you enjoy ... start getting hard-that's when you know you're getting good, and you have to stick through it.

  Michelle Obama

  Soccer, Girl, Stars

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• There is no reason why agreement on particular points should not be both possible and advantageous to the so-called neutrals and to one or more of the blocs, either existing or in the process of formation, within the League of Nations.

  Hjalmar Branting

  Agreement, Reason Why, Process

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• Tom Brady is good, real good...but he plays in same league as I do.

  Cam Newton

  Real, Play, Brady

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• There is no life for girls in team sports past
  Little League. I got into tennis when I realized this, and because I
  thought golf would be too slow for me, and I was too scared to swim.

  Billie Jean King

  Girl, Sports, Team

  FaceBook post by Billie Jean King from May 15, 2010

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• I dont want to return to France, because Ive won everything there - league title, cup, best player, best young player

  Eden Hazard

  Player, Titles, Want

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• When people start comparing him with (Michael) Jordan then that's not a fair comparison. Jordan was a far more superior player in a very tough league, he was very creative. That's not taking away anything from LeBron because he is a great player, but it is not a fair comparison because Jordan is a far superior player.

  Hakeem Olajuwon

  Player, People, Creative

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• A lot of people think Major League’s called Wild Thing. As they should.

  Charlie Sheen

  Thinking, People, Should

  "Charlie Sheen Sets His Sights on Sox". Boston Dirt Dogs Interview, bostondirtdogs.boston.com. March 8, 2011.

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• I grew up in a strongly socialist family. While I was at school, I worked in party politics and with organizations like the Anti-Nazi League. Everywhere I saw it, I fought prejudice.

  Saffron Burrows

  Party, School, Organization

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• 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

  Champions League, Games, Way

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• I went to New York in 1974, to either try to get a record deal, get into the New York Art Student League, or be a dancer. So that was my plan. Some plan. And I had no money.

  John Mellencamp

  Art, New York, Dancer

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• Every one must be struck with astonishment, when he first beholds one of these vast rings of coral-rock, often many leagues in diameter, here and there surmounted by a low verdant island with dazzling white shores, bathed on the outside by the foaming breakers of the ocean, and on the inside surrounding a calm expanse of water, which, from reflection, is of a bright but pale green color.

  Charles Darwin

  Nature, Ocean, Reflection

  Charles Darwin (2010). “The Works of Charles Darwin, Volume 7: The Geology of the Voyage of the H. M. S. Beagle, Part I: Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs”, p.3, NYU Press

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• After 12 years in the minor leagues, I don't try out. Besides, uh, I don't believe in quantum physics when it comes to matters of the heart.

  Crash Davis

  Believe, Heart, Years

  "Fictional character: Crash Davis". "Bull Durham", 1988.

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• I do not need to play in the Champions League to be happy

  Mats Hummels

  Champions League, Play, Needs

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• The Cincinnati Bengals look like the most complete team in the National Football League. I can’t wait to see how they match up against New England.

  Sterling Sharpe

  Football, Team, Waiting

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• I thought Denver and Seattle was a big game but Houston and Dallas is the kind of game that as players, we want to play in. I haven’t missed playing in the National Football League, but every year there are one or two games that makes me wish I could tee it up in that game one more time.

  Sterling Sharpe

  Football, Player, Two

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• As long as the problem of world reconstruction remains the center of interest for all nations, blocs having similar attitudes will form and operate even within the League itself.

  Hjalmar Branting

  Attitude, Long, World

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• I never graduated high school; they had to change the Ivy League rules. During my tenure at Brown, I helped them become the number one Ivy League school.

  Robert Evans

  Change, School, Ivy

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• When we got knocked out against Porto in the Champions League, I only slept two hours that night. I was not a nice person to be with after that match. I was struggling to get the result out of my system.

  Ruud van Nistelrooy

  Nice, Struggle, Night

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• You still remember the bad rounds here, but they don't stay with you as long. The Champions Tour is great, it's competitive and it's a wonderful show, but it's not the real big league. The real big league is the PGA Tour, and we all know that.

  Tom Kite

  Real, Long, Champion

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• I've never seen anything like it since. Some of the Canada Cups came close, but by then a lot of European players came and played in our league so we were more familiar with them.

  Marcel Dionne

  Country, Player, Canada

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• The money is in a different league these days, of course, but I have special memories of the 60s and 70s which players today don't have. There wasn't the same celebrity attitude and media exposure. We had a bit more freedom.

  Peter Shilton

  Memories, Attitude, Player

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