League Quotes - Page 32

• The best player I ever played against is Thierry Henry. He was something else; i've played against Rooney and Ronaldo and players like that but i think he was the best player ever to play in the Premier League

  Jamie Carragher

  Player, Thinking, Rooney

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• Men since the beginning of time have sought peace...military alliances, balances of power, leagues of nations, all in turn have failed, leaving the only path to be by way of the crucible of war. The utter destructiveness of war not blots out this alternative.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Military, War, Men

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• I want to be an NBA all-star and help my team win. That's what it's all about, is winning. I'm a competitor... People said a lot about me being selfish and stuff like that. Getting into the league, I can't wait to shut that down. I'm a guy who wants to play and to win and love my teammates.

  Shabazz Muhammad

  Stars, Selfish, Team

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• Those huckleberries in the National League don't want to do anything that the American League wants to do.

  Phil Rizzuto

  Yankees, Want, Huckleberry

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• A lot of pitchers today are afraid of the ball. Warren Spahn pinch-hit for me when I was a rookie. He hit a sacrifice fly. I couldn't argue. I was 20 years old and just happy to be in the big leagues. And Spahnnie was a good hitter.

  Joe Torre

  Sacrifice, Yankees, Years

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• I wish you had one of those fairy telescopes that can look into the hearts and souls of people a thousand leagues off, then you might see how much you possess my mind.

  Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood

  Love, Heart, People

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• I'd love to find some people to teach advanced meditation to. I've been looking for many years. There are a few around. Once in a while I run into another one. It's a very limited league at this time, in this world.

  Frederick Lenz

  Running, Buddhism, Years

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• Imagine a pantomime directed by Quentin Tarantino, where villains are booed, heroes are blood-stained, the body-count is high, the entertainment pulsating, the language filthy and the audience screamed behind you'' as tackles hurtled in like boulders crashing down a mountain-side. Such was the epic drama that gripped the Emirates yesterday. A derby crammed with sound, fury and significance ended with everyone grasping for breath, with Arsenal regaining the high ground of the Premier League... This was the Premier League at its raw, mistake-filled, mesmerising best. Utterly compelling.

  Henry Winter

  Soccer, Football, Mistake

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• Manchester United have risen to the pinnacle of the English game at a time when the rewards are so high - thanks to the ticket to the Champions League - that they have resources that only a handful of other sides, through merit or the exploitation of the people of Russia, can approach.

  Phil Cornwell

  Soccer, Football, Russia

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• On Platini's presidential watch... he has to balance all the leagues, all the dreams and needs of hundreds of clubs across his continent.

  Robert Hughes

  Soccer, Football, Dream

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• Is this good for English football? In the short run, Chelsea's rise has broken up what was turning into an irritating Arsenal-Manchester United duopoly. But football leagues (look at Scotland, look at Spain) can get along OK with duopolies. A monopoly, however, is a disaster. Everyone else in the Premiership has to operate on some kind of business footing, and the terror stalking Highbury and Old Trafford is that Chelsea will be immune from financial discipline forever.

  Matthew Engel

  Soccer, Football, Running

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• But before Derby go, would they mind telling the rest of the Premier League - the league which it has debased with its pathetically-inadequate presence for the past 12 months - where the money has gone? You know, the £30m or so in prize money that every team, even the one at the bottom of the table from August to May, automatically receives by being in the Premier League... So what happened to that money? Or put another way, why was such a meaningless fraction of it spent on recruiting new players? It's one thing not to compete; it's quite another not to even attempt to do so.

  Pete Gill

  Soccer, Football, Team

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• We're in the top six, we've got five points and I've told the lads we need another 80 to win the League.

  Joe Kinnear

  Soccer, Football, Winning

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• I don't have to be jealous of Barcelona because they have 100 years of history and have won the European Cup once. I have only been managing for five years and I have the same amount of Champions League trophies to my name.

  Jose Mourinho

  Soccer, Football, Jealous

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• We played a whole season unbeaten but you did not see me every week jumping on the tables. Once it's over it's over and you do in the next one as well as you can. Plenty of managers who have won the Champions League will not be considered great managers.

  Arsene Wenger

  Soccer, Football, Jumping

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• Faith-healing is peculiar enough at the best of times, but applying it to football merits a special league of barking. Why would God bother to perform a miracle that enabled Sol Campbell to yell Oh holy Jesus, now I can win the ball in the air. It's been five years since I could defend from corners, brothers and sisters, it's a miracle.

  Mark Steel

  Soccer, Football, Jesus

  “Spot the balls” by Mark Steel, www.theguardian.com. February 3, 1999.

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• It hurt me a great deal. It put a lot of pressure on me because I was at a young age and the writers around here and throughout the league starting comparing me to Cobb. It put a lot of pressure on me.

  Al Kaline

  Sports, Hurt, Age

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• And that's why, you know, it's players like Randy Moss that unfortunately put a stain on the entire league.

  Boomer Esiason

  Sports, Player, Moss

  "Boomer Esiason on Sports Bad Boys". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. January 12, 2005.

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• The situation was, the team I was on when I got injured went down to the lower leagues. In America, they don't have that relegation, so when the team went down to the lower region, every player has his value, and they went off and sold any player who had value.

  Claudio Reyna

  Sports, Team, Player

  Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. March 27, 2006.

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• I'm happy with the Arena Football League right now. I'm happy in Denver.

  John Elway

  Sports, Football, Denver

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• Well I loved Little League; so all the memories are pretty fond but I broke my thumb. That wasn't a lot of fun. I think probably the first time I pitched [I started out as a first baseman] and the first game I pitched in Little League, I struck out 10 batters. I had a curve ball a little early [laughs]. You're not really supposed to have one when you're 12, but I did, so I first game I struck out 10 batters. That's possibly my fondest memory.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Fun, Memories, Thinking

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• They (Bayern Munich) lost in the semi-finals of the Champions League to Real Madrid last year, and the year before that were beaten in the final by Manchester United, so their European pedigree is second to none.

  Simon Brotherton

  Football, Real, Champions League

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• My dream was to become a rec league coach. That's what I wanted to do. I wanted to stay home and help the kids out and be a coach.

  Kevin Durant

  Dream, Kids, Home

  Kevin Durant's MVP speech, newsok.com. May 13, 2014.

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• Or I could see Fish, Just a button up, Like a Mayor, Like a President, Just demands so much from his teammates, Has played with so many great players, But still respects everybody. He's 38 years old, And he has nothing else to prove, And I said, "Fish you wanna come get some shots up with me?" And first thing he says is "Yes." He always wants to learn. Even though he's done so much in this league, Played with so many great players, He always wants to learn, And that motivated me To know that it's never a point Where you can stop getting better. And he's a guy that made me realize that.

  Kevin Durant

  Player, Mvp, Years

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• It had been a great career. I mean, how many guys can say they averaged two points a game in their careers? It's too bad he's retiring too soon. The league is going to miss him. The fans are going to miss him. A real classy person and a great guy.

  Johnny Bucyk

  Real, Mean, Nhl

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