League Quotes - Page 36

• In sport, Americans are prominent in the Premier League - both on and off the pitch.

  Louis Susman

  Sports, Prominent, And Off

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• Homicide is the major leagues, the center ring, the show. It always has been ... It goes beyond academic degrees, specialized training or book learning, because all the theory in the world means nothing if you can't read the street.

  David Simon

  Book, Mean, Training

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• I was always a big Justice League fan. I always loved Batman, Superman - I have a weird Martian Manhunter fixation.

  David Liss

  Justice, Fans, Bigs

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• Watching National League pitchers trying to hit or even bunt is depressing.

  Ron Blomberg

  Depressing, Trying, Pitcher

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• There are people with a lot more talent than I have who have been weeded out of the league because they couldn't put their egos aside to fill a role.

  Kurt Rambis

  People, Ego, Roles

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• We're the victims of a disease called social prejudice, my child. These dear ladies of the law and order league are scouring out the dregs of the town. C'mon be a glorified wreck like me.

  Dudley Nichols

  Children, Order, Law

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• I want to be top scorer in the Premier League, top scorer at the World Cup and, within five years, I want to be among the best strikers in the world. Trust me, it will happen. I look around at other players, I see my own ability and I can't see anything that tells me it won't happen, I'm sure people will think 'What is he talking about?' But as I have done before, and as I will do again, I will sit at the other end and laugh at those people when it is all done.

  Nicklas Bendtner

  Player, Thinking, Talking

  "Successfully begging two fellow customers to sub him" by Barry Glendenning, www.theguardian.com. September 07, 2016.

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• If I were playing against Corey Perry, I’d probably want to hurt him in some painful and permanent way. And I think most of the rest of the league feels the same way.

  Mike Milbury

  Hurt, Thinking, Want

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• I was late to the Knicks. My dad was a big fan. But I first started watching baseball; I became a Red Sox fan. My dad was a Mets fan. I wanted to have my own team and league.

  Noah Baumbach

  Baseball, Dad, Team

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• When I play against someone that's new in the league, I make him respect me. They may have heard about me, but now you get to see me actually in front of you. That drives me.

  Michael Jordan

  Play, May, Respect Me

  "The Playboy Interview: Sports Gods". Interview with Mark Vancil, reprints.longform.org. May 1992.

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• We were totally opposite - me coming from the West Coast and a junior college, and him [ Christopher Reeve] from the hard-core Ivy League. He used to be the studly studly of all studlies, and I was the little fool ferret boy.

  Robin Williams

  Boys, College, Opposites

  Source: www.rd.com

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• Where the great force lies, there must be the sanction of peace.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Peace, Lying, Force

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1988). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• Any man that resists the present tides that run in the world, will find himself thrown upon a shore so high and barren that it will seem he has been separated from his human kind forever.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Running, Men, Forever

  Woodrow Wilson, United States. President (1913-1921 : Wilson) (1924). “The messages and papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• We are participants, whether we would or not, in the life of the world.... We are partners with the rest. What affects mankind isinevitably our affair as well as the nations of Europe and Asia.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Europe, World, Asia

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• A living thing is born.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Born, League Of Nations, Living Things

  Woodrow Wilson (1965). “The Political Thought of Woodrow Wilson”

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• Every mob, in its ignorance and blindness and bewilderment, is a League of Frightened Men that seeks reassurance in collective action.

  Max Lerner

  Ignorance, Men, Civilization

  Max Lerner (1959). “The Unfinished Country”

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• Immorality, perversion, infidelity, cannibalism, etc., are unassailable by church and civic league if you dress them up in the togas and talliths of the Good Book.

  Ben Hecht

  Bible, Book, Infidelity

  Ben Hecht (1954). “A child of the century”, Signet

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• Struck in the wet mire
  Four thousand leagues from the ninth buried city
  I thought of Troy, what we had built her for.

  Allen Tate

  Cities, Four, Buried

  Allen Tate (2014). “Collected Poems, 1919-1976”, p.69, Macmillan

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• Stereotypes fall in the face of humanity. You toodle along, thinking that all gay men wear leather after dark and should never, ever be permitted around a Little League field. And then one day your best friend from college, the one your kids adore, comes out to you.

  Anna Quindlen

  Fall, Kids, Gay

  Anna Quindlen (2004). “Loud and Clear”, p.90, Random House

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• L.A. Clippers owner Donald Sterling was recorded on tape making racist comments. He now has been banned from the league for life. Great, just where Sterling wanted to end up - the blacklist.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Tape, Racist, Ethics

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• Whatever success I have achieved, whatever positions of leadership I have held have depended less on Ivy League degrees or SAT scores or GPAs and have instead been due to that sense of connection and empathy, the special obligation I felt as a black man like you to help those who need it most, people who didn't have the opportunities that I had because there, but for the grace of God go I. I might have been in their shoes. I might have been in prison. I might have been unemployed. I might not have been able to support a family. And that motivates me.

  Barack Obama

  Opportunity, Men, Gpa

  "Around The World" with Michael Holmes and Suzanne Malveaux, www.cnn.com. May 20, 2013.

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• Tolerance to my mind has been greatly overrated . . . . I take as much pleasure in detesting the good brothers and sisters of the [Anti-Saloon] League as they have in hating me.

  Westbrook Pegler

  Brother, Hate, Tolerance

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• It's said the religious right wants to force its faith on the public. But whose faith are we talking about?... Everyone who operates in the political arena wants to see their morals reflected in our laws and governmental institutions - including the National Organization of Women, the National Abortion Rights Action League, and the American Civil Liberties Union, whether or not they are willing to admit it.

  Don Feder

  Christian, Religious, Talking

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• The time for letting the Christian bashing go on essentially unchallenged has come to an end... There is a great need for a Christian anti-defamation league. To some degree, there is such an organization emerging on the horizon, the Catholic League... I have had it on my heart for about a decade - and have even expressed the thought - that a Christian anti-defamation league would be helpful.

  D. James Kennedy

  Christian, Religious, Heart

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• In America most orthodox Christians become defensive or testy when they are asked even to break into a sweat. Most of our efforts up until now have been more symbolic than anything else. We are great at holding conventions, gathering for strategy meetings and seminars, holding congresses on evangelism. But where are the people to run our own antidefamation league?

  Cal Thomas

  Christian, Running, Religious

  Cal Thomas (1983). “Book burning”, Good News Pub

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