League Quotes - Page 28

• I would have been about seven years old when the formative years of my competitive football education began. I was playing in the local leagues around Manchester, playing against lads from tough areas who had been taught they had to fight for everything.

  Gary Neville

  Football, Fighting, Years

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• I think it's a natural fit, major league baseball and country music.

  Joe Nichols

  Baseball, Country, Thinking

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• When I was 14 or 15, I was a really good volleyball player, so I thought, 'Well, maybe I'll just get a scholarship to an Ivy League school through volleyball.' Then I quit when I decided to focus on theater.

  Elizabeth Olsen

  Volleyball, School, Player

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

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• I still don't know how I got to the big leagues because I wasn't that good.

  Johnny Oates

  Bigs, Stills, Know How

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• It's a good feeling to see the kids try to make it, try to get to the big leagues. Everyone here has an opportunity to achieve his dream. I was lucky I was able to achieve my dream.

  Tony Oliva

  Dream, Kids, Opportunity

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• If you don't set goals, you'll never reach them. Or like they say in golf, if you aim for nothing, you'll hit it every time. Take any player in the major leagues: I'd say just about everyone of them had a dream - a goal - to be a big-leaguer when they were kids. It wasn't an easy goal, but it was a reachable one, and that's important.

  Yogi Berra

  Dream, Kids, Golf

  Yogi Berra (2010). “What Time Is It? You Mean Now?: Advice for Life from the Zennest Master of Them All”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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• I always considered Ray Harryhausen's work so fine that it was way out of my league: in terms of realism and naturalism, in terms of animal movement.

  Nick Park

  Animal, Rays, Movement

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• When you're competing, you don't have the choice of what the weather will be like. It really doesn't affect me. I ran one of my fastest times in the New York Diamond League meeting last year. It was raining pretty hard then.

  Oscar Pistorius

  New York, Rain, Years

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• At the minor-league and major-league level, you know how important your coaching staff is, but in a big market it becomes absolutely huge.

  Mike Quade

  Coaching, Important, Levels

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• I've seen teams spend £150 million and get nowhere near the Champions League. It has taken Manchester City a billion to get there. There are no guarantees.

  Gordon Strachan

  Team, Taken, Champions League

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• At my growing years of 18 to 21 years old in the Minor Leagues, I dreamed of being a Philadelphia Phillie.

  Ryne Sandberg

  Years, Philadelphia, Growing

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• I never forgot the four years I spent with the Phillies, my September call-ups and my big league Spring Trainings. I never forgot that.

  Ryne Sandberg

  Spring, Years, Training

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• I think sometimes Hall of Famers might get labeled as guys who aren't suited for a coaching job or to be back at the Major League level.

  Ryne Sandberg

  Jobs, Thinking, Guy

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• I want to be a traveling circus in that big-league uniform, like everybody else.

  Dontrelle Willis

  Want, Uniforms, Circus

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• Everyone today is like, 'Shailene, you're getting so much buzz. How does the feel?' It's the most odd question because it's like asking a kid who got into Cornell how it feels to be the top of your class at one of the Ivy League schools. How do you answer that? You just go, 'I don't know.

  Shailene Woodley

  School, Kids, Class

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• My high school coach was Ray O'Conner. He has coached a lot of players that have signed professional contracts, and many of those have gone on to play in the major leagues.

  Robin Yount

  Sports, School, Player

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• What is the highest secret to victory and peace? To will what God wills, and strike a league with destiny.

  William Rounseville Alger

  Peace, Destiny, Secret

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• A League of Their Own' had some special meaning for me, I guess - it's about women joining together and being empowered, but also about sisters sticking together even when there's drama and struggles. I'm really close to my two sisters and my brother, so I liked that about it.

  Rebel Wilson

  Brother, Drama, Struggle

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• Big league defense is going to get outs most times.

  Barry Zito

  Sports, Defense, Bigs

  "Barry Zito Visits Athletics Nation". Interview with Tyler Bleszinski, www.athleticsnation.com. March 29, 2005.

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• 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

  Father, Calling, Bigs

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• Let me be clear: Any new approach must ensure the integrity of the game. One of my most important responsibilities as commissioner of the NBA is to protect the integrity of professional basketball and preserve public confidence in the league and our sport. I oppose any course of action that would compromise these objectives. But I believe that sports betting should be brought out of the underground and into the sunlight where it can be appropriately monitored and regulated

  Adam Silver

  Basketball, Sports, Integrity

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• I came out of my professional athlete career with a 450 credit score, no money in the bank to show for it, but I had an Ivy League degree. So I put that Dartmouth degree to good use and got a job on Wall Street. I hated it but used the time to make connections and become financially literate.

  Brian J. White

  Jobs, Wall, Athlete

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• Other teams have offered me really big money but my love for Galatasaray is real. I want to play in major leagues and my dream team is Liverpool F.C. As I always mention, Liverpool attracts me because of their tradition. In Europe, I am a Liverpool supporter, so if I go to play in Europe, I would like to play for them.

  Arda Turan

  Dream, Real, Team

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• It was always a wish for me to work in the Premier League. To work as a manager for Manchester United, the biggest club in the world, makes me very proud. I have managed in games at Old Trafford before and know what an incredible arena Old Trafford is and how passionate and knowledgeable the fans are. This club has big ambitions; I too have big ambitions. Together I'm sure we will make history.

  Louis van Gaal

  Ambition, Games, Together

  "Spain, Netherlands will meet again in World Cup". Interview with Kevin Baxter, www.latimes.com. June 03, 2014.

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• My mom is always with me. When I made my major-league debut I told her, 'That's it. You don't work anymore. I'm going to work and take care of you.

  Melky Cabrera

  Mom, Care, Made

  "Torrid-hitting Giant making name for self" by Henry Schulman, www.sfgate.com. June 1, 2012.

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