League Quotes - Page 40

• After one year in the Texas League, the American League bought the rights to my contract. They optioned me back to the Texas League for the 1970 season.

  Jim Evans

  Rights, Texas, Years

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• I predict that many teams will go out of business and the size of the leagues will be greatly reduced.

  Will McDonough

  Team, Size

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• There is something very unnatural and odious in a government a thousand leagues off. A whole government of our own choice, managed by persons whom we love, revere, and can confide in, has charms in it for which men will fight.

  John Adams

  Fighting, Men, Choices

  John Adams (2012). “The Letters of John and Abigail Adams”, p.142, Simon and Schuster

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• It is important to us to understand and discuss a "vision" with both leagues and then sponsor the league that best matches our views and direction on growing the sport. To do that, there must be a tie back to our grass roots efforts. In short, our marketing plan for new players has to ultimately point to a league and its players.

  John Robinson

  Sports, Player, Views

  Source: propaintball.com

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• Coaches who have been players in the league, they get so attuned to playing how they were successful, and who their coaches were.

  Jerry West

  Successful, Player, Coaches

  Source: espn.go.com

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• As an american, you're born aiming so high - boys want to play in the major leagues, girls want to be princesses. We're cultivating little champions. It's like the land of little champions.

  Steven Conrad

  Girl, Princess, Boys

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Encouragement is the most important thing in the world for young people, rather than league tables, which demoralise everyone.

  Tony Benn

  Encouragement, People, Important

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• You don't need Little League. You don't even need nine kids. Four is plenty-a pitcher, a batter, and a couple of shaggers. You can play ball all day long. My kids used to try to get me out there, but I'd just say, "Go play with your brothers." If kids want to do something, they'll do it. They don't need adults to do it for them.

  Yogi Berra

  Brother, Couple, Kids

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• Man, I didn't think I stood a chance. I mean, she was way out of my league.she still is.

  Tim McGraw

  Mean, Men, Thinking

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• There is a double-standard between men and women. My father was a major league baseball player, and I grew up thinking I could have the same attitude on the field that he did. When I did that in real life, people thought I was a total bi-atch.

  Katie Uhlaender

  Baseball, Attitude, Father

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• He [Vince Spadea] was about as down and out as you could see from a Top 20 player. Then to claw his way back through the minor leagues and do it the hard way where he wasn't young, wasn't getting wildcards, wasn't getting any help. I guess he decided he was just going to do it.

  Andy Roddick

  Player, Down And, Way

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• When I think of Arsenal, my favourite personal memory that I recall is scoring my first goal for the Club - away to Lazio in the Champions League. It was important because when you join a new club, you really want to score your first goal. It's where everything started for me at this club

  Robert Pires

  Memories, Thinking, Champions League

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• When I discovered PopTech and other kind of intellectualish, online portals for curiosity. Very quickly, I just got so much more out of those than from so-called "Ivy League" education that I knew it was on me to keep myself stimulated, and to keep learning, more than anything. And, because I paid my way through college, I was working at Penn, two to four jobs at a time to pay for school.

  Maria Popova

  Jobs, School, College

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• They think America is like a major league in entertainment. For me personally being here for the past year-and-a-half, I know some of the arguments and discrepancies African American actors have with the opportunities here.

  Aml Ameen

  Opportunity, Thinking, Past

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• It was feminism that made it possible for women to go to the Ivy League and women to be astronauts and women to have their own TV shows. What happened, though, was that the generation after feminism, which is my generation, misunderstood what feminism was saying.

  Debora Spar

  Tv Shows, Ivy, Misunderstood

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• A lot of people don't trust the pitch. There's this kind of reputation it has for being untrustworthy and fickle and capricious and everything else, and those are words that big league managers and general managers and organizations aren't too fond of.

  R.A. Dickey

  Organization, People, Fickle

  "Master of the Knuckleball". Interview with Jeremy Stahl, www.slate.com. October 29,2012.

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• You never go into a season thinking you're going to strike out 200 guys or that you would have the most double-digit strikeout games in the big leagues, or anything like that. You just try to win, and the outing becomes what the outing becomes.

  R.A. Dickey

  Winning, Thinking, Games

  "Master of the Knuckleball". Interview with Jeremy Stahl, www.slate.com. October 29, 2012.

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• I never went to camp as a kid. I couldn't get into an Ivy League school. I wouldn't join a biker club.

  Bob Saget

  School, Kids, Ivy

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. December 02, 2010.

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• I did the Justice League thing the wrong way. I read too much on the Internet. You cant do that. The Internet is the devil. Or the Internet is not the devil - the comment boards are the devil.

  D. J. Cotrona

  Justice, Devil, Way

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• After three League games, we have the same number of points as last year even if we have played two away games this time round, ... As we got back on the right track last season, including making up an eight-point gap in a few games, we just need to stay calm.

  Adriano Galliani

  Eight, Years, Games

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• BenJarvus Green-Ellis was great to me. He's the type of person that you want to learn from because he understands the game and he's been in the league for a while. He's a great role model to a lot of guys on the team, including myself.

  Giovani Bernard

  Team, Games, Role Models

  Interview with Elias Trejo, www.askmen.com.

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• When you're younger and dumber, as a guy, you do things because you think you have to, because that's how things are done. You wait the standard three days to call, you don't approach the beautiful girl at the bar because you automatically assume she's out of your league, you'd rather jump in a swimming pool filled with jellyfish than tell a woman that you have feelings for her, etc.

  Jason Mulgrew

  Beautiful, Girl, Swimming

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• As a player it is great to experience many other ways of playing, other tactics and other mentalities. I have played in several countries and because of that I know without any doubt that the English league is the one for me.

  Djibril Cisse

  Country, Player, Doubt

  Source: www.askmen.com

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• The inclusiveness of the Drama League luncheon is one of the most exciting things about it. I get to see old friends and meet new friends. Of course I can't tell who anybody is if they're under the age of 75. So my old friends become my new friends.

  James Earl Jones

  Drama, Old Friends, Age

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• I'm not in the big leagues just because I'm cute.

  Pedro Martinez

  Cute, Bigs

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