League Quotes - Page 29

• 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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• Spanish football is very good but every year the same teams win the league.

  Royston Drenthe

  Football, Team, Winning

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• Skullcrack City messes with your mind the way William Burroughs or a bellyful of hallucinogens will do. I'm a longtime fan of Johnson. A master of derangement, he's been bringing it for years. This time, though, it's different. He's burst into the clear and is taking seven-league strides across the literary landscape.

  Laird Barron

  Years, Cities, Mind

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• Always wanted to be a Major League player. Loved baseball. Followed it. Loved to play. Plus, I could always hit.

  Stan Musial

  Baseball, Player, Plus

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• Baseball people are generally allergic to new ideas; it took years to persuade them to put numbers on uniforms, and it is the hardest thing in the world to get Major League Baseball to change anything—even spikes on a new pair of shoes—but they will eventually...they are bound to.

  Branch Rickey

  Baseball, Shoes, Ideas

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• My thing is, I want to play basketball, I would enjoy playing in the D-League, but at the same time I don't want to take an opportunity away from a young guy to get exposure. I'm still thinking about it.

  Michael Finley

  Basketball, Opportunity, Thinking

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• If I don't make the team out of spring training, I'll keep a good attitude. I'll just go polish up the parts of my game that made me not stay in the big leagues.

  Cory Lidle

  Attitude, Spring, Team

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• It's hard to view myself sometimes as even in the same league as other musicians, mainly because there's so much music before me. I feel overinformed by different styles and different possibilities.

  Ryan Adams

  Views, Style, Musician

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. June 28, 2007.

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• Unity and self-sacrifice, of themselves, even when fostered by the most noble means, produce a facility for hating. Even when men league themselves mightily together to promote tolerance and peace on earth, they are likely to be violently intolerant toward those not of a like mind.

  Eric Hoffer

  Hate, Mean, Sacrifice

  ERIC HOFFER (1963). “THE TRUE BELIEVER”

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• I mean no disrespect to Scottish football, but the Premier League is the biggest stage and highest profile league of all.

  Peter Shilton

  Football, Mean, Disrespect

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• Austin, Texas, and Columbus, Ohio, are the two toughest communities in which you have to put together a winning football team. They are both big metropolitan areas without professional football and major league baseball to sidetrack them.

  Brent Musburger

  Baseball, Football, Team

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• Co-operating critics comb the studios like big-league scouts, prepared to spot the art of the future and to take lead in establishing reputations. Art historians stand by ready with cameras and notebooks to make sure every novel detail is safe for the record. The tradition of the new has reduced all other traditions to triviality.

  Harold Rosenberg

  Notebook, Art, Future

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• Although his playing career with the Broncos took place before my time with the team, I am well aware of what Floyd Little means to this franchise, city and league. Aside from his stellar play on the field, he helped make the Broncos relevant in the NFL and strengthened the bond between this team and its fans. He has waited a long time for this honor, and I couldn't be happier for him.

  Pat Bowlen

  Team, Mean, Play

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• I had 11 years of managerial experience and four years of coaching before I managed a big-league team. To me, it was important, because I learned a lot through trial and error. And it's tough to have to go through trial and error when you're a big-league manager.

  Jim Leyland

  Team, Errors, Years

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• I need to be out earning. I can make more in two hours at a card show than I did [as a minor-league manager] all year.

  Mike Schmidt

  Years, Two, Needs

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• I never pay attention to errors in the Minor Leagues. Derek Jeter made 43 errors in the South Atlantic League, and I didn't care. With his hands and his range, I don't worry about that with Zimmerman. He is a good defensive player.

  Jim Bowden

  Player, Errors, Hands

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• That's the fun part of it all. You get creative when you're in Little League. You're creative when you're in middle school. You're creative in high school and college. And then when you get to the league, this position, the more mobile quarterbacks, we have a tendency to want to become traditional and nervous and panicky in how we want to call plays and put guys in position to make plays.

  Kordell Stewart

  Fun, Creativity, School

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• Major League Baseball should retire Roberto Clemente's number, just like they did Jackie Robinson's.

  Carlos Beltran

  Baseball, Numbers, Majority

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• Could she *be* anymore out of my league?

  Raymond Chandler

  Dating, Romance

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• The Gaelic League is founded not upon hatred of England, but upon love of Ireland. Hatred is a negative passion; it is powerful - a very powerful destroyer; but it is useless for building up. Love, on the other hand, is like faith; it can move mountains, and faith, we have mountains to move.

  Douglas Hyde

  Powerful, Moving, Passion

  Douglas Hyde (1986). “Language, lore, and lyrics: essays and lectures”, Irish Academic Pr

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• There's more philosophy in jiu-jitsu mats than in any Ivy League school in America.

  Renzo Gracie

  Philosophy, School, Ivy

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• When I first started coming to New York in the early Nineties and seeing the vitality of the programme compared to what was going on back in London or Paris, it was just in a different league. It's like a 16th-century court.

  Thomas P. Campbell

  New York, Paris, London

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• I believe there are certain things that cannot be bought -- loyalty, friendship, health, love and an American League pennant.

  Edward Bennett Williams

  Loyalty, Believe, Certain

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• I must say that the tasks of the youth in general, and of the Young Communist Leagues and all other organisations in particular, might be summed up in a single word: learn.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Tasks, Might, Youth

  V. I. Lenin (2008). “Lenin on Literature and Art”, p.126, Wildside Press LLC

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• 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

  Games, Guy, Four

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