League Quotes - Page 9

• Arsenal are streets ahead of everyone in this league and Manchester United are up there with them.

  Craig Bellamy

  Football, Manchester United, Streets

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• Chris Porter scored his first league goal last week, and he's done the same this week.

  Jeff Stelling

  Football, Goal, Done

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• If you're going to win the Premier League, you're going to have to finish ahead of Chelsea and Manchester City.

  Graeme Souness

  Football, Winning, Cities

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• AFC Wimbledon in the League! Talk about the ashes rising from the flames.

  Stan Collymore

  Football, Flames, Wimbledon

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• A journey of a thousand leagues begins beneath one's feet.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Journey, Feet

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• There is nothing absurd or impracticable in the idea of a league or alliance between independent nations for certain defined purposes precisely stated in a treaty regulating all the details of time, place, circumstance, and quantity; leaving nothing to future discretion; and depending for its execution on the good faith of the parties.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Party, Independent, Ideas

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1852). “The Federalist, on the new constitution, written in 1788, with an appendix, containing the letters of Pacificus and Helvidius on the proclamation of neutrality of 1793, also the original articles of confederation and the constitution of the United States”, p.68

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• Al Davis is a legend and his contribution and influence on the game of football, the National Football League, and the Oakland Raiders has been profound for decades. To view his contribution and influence on a season-by-season basis does not make sense: he has dominated the industry for a lifetime. I can't tell you how he may have impacted or guided other individuals during their careers but I can speak from personal experience. He inspires me to be better every day than I was the day before.

  Amy Trask

  Football, Views, Oakland

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• We urgently need to bring to our communities the limitless capacity to love, serve, and create for and with each other. We urgently need to bring the neighbor back into our hoods, not only in our inner cities but also in our suburbs, our gated communities, on Main Street and Wall Street, and on Ivy League campuses.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Wall, Capacity To Love, Cities

  Grace Lee Boggs, Scott Kurashige, Danny Glover (2012). “The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century”, p.47, Univ of California Press

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• I'm so very happy to be here, ... My lifelong dream is to win, and I was accustomed to winning before I got to Cincinnati. From Bantam League, to middle school, high school and at Auburn, I was always on winning teams. I just want to win again.

  Takeo Spikes

  Dream, Team, School

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• The real debate isn't over National League MVP, but over which of Barry Bonds' seasons should be considered his finest. There's 2001, when he hit his record seventy-three home runs. There's 2002, when he hit .370 and won his first batting title. And now there's 2004, when the San Francisco Giants slugger is preparing to shatter his season record for on-base percentage, hitting for nearly as high an average as Ichiro and missing fewer pitches than ever.

  Ken Rosenthal

  Running, Real, Home

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• I consider the difference between a system founded on
  the legislatures only, and one founded on the people, to be the true difference between a league or treaty and a constitution.

  James Madison

  Differences, People, Constitution

  James Madison (1836). “The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution: As Recommended by the General Convention at Philadelphia, in 1787. Together with the Journal of the Federal Convention, Luther Martin's Letter, Yate's Minutes, Congressional Opinions, Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions of '98-'99, and Other Illustrations of the Constitution”

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• Some kids dream of joining the circus, others of becoming a major league baseball player. I have been doubly blessed. As a member of the New York Yankees, I have gotten to do both.

  Graig Nettles

  Baseball, Dream, New York

  Graig Nettles, Peter Golenbock (1985). “Balls”, New York : Pocket Books ; Markham, Ont. : Distributed in Canada by PaperJacks

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• You often see shocks in the League Cup, even when you don’t expect them

  Jan Mølby

  Cups, Shock

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• It's important that top clubs don't lose sight of the fact that it's the English Premier League and English players should be involved.

  Alan Pardew

  Player, Sight, Important

  "Wenger rails at 'racist' criticism of Arsenal side" by Mike Anstead, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2016.

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• Man, I've got a Rolls-Royce. Big house. Limo. All those things. This is why every kid's dream is to be a major-league ballplayer.

  Lou Whitaker

  Dream, Kids, Men

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• Initially, it (winning the 1967 American League Pennant) was what you would dream about in Little League. The winning pitcher, being on the mound to win the pennant, everyone congratulating me. But a few minutes later, you realize you're not going where you want to go. I was trying to get back in the dugout. Thank God for the Boston police, they were able to control the crowd. It was delirium.

  Jim Lonborg

  Dream, Winning, Boston

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• Are you crying? There's no crying. There's no crying in baseball.

  Tom Hanks

  Baseball, Cry, Sports Movie

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• I feel as though I've proved myself these last five years that I can be one of the top players in the league.

  Kevin Durant

  Player, Years, Lasts

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

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• Everybody was calling. I think everybody called every player in the league. Thats history right there.

  Dwyane Wade

  Player, Thinking, Calling

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• Every day I went to the ballpark in Yankee Stadium as well as on the road people were on my back. The last six years in the American League were mental hell for me. I was drained of all my desire to play baseball.

  Roger Maris

  Baseball, Yankees, Years

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• I think the National Football League needs a new union. The heavyweights of this union are not heavyweights enough.

  Jim Brown

  Football, Thinking, Heavyweights

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• I don't think there's any question that the UFL or any other league that wants to challenge the NFL can have an impact. The demand for professional football is off the charts.

  Mark Cuban

  Football, Thinking, Impact

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• If Roman Abramovich helped me out in training we would be bottom of the league and if I had to work in his world of big business, we would be bankrupt!

  Jose Mourinho

  Training, Would Be, World

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• If I wanted to have an easy job, working with the big protection of what I have already done before, I would have stayed at Porto - beautiful blue chair, the Uefa Champions League trophy, God, and after God, me.

  Jose Mourinho

  Beautiful, Jobs, Champions League

  "Mourinho boasts 'After God, me'" by Amy Lawrence, www.theguardian.com. July 10, 2004.

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• Like me or not, I am the only one who has won the world's three most important leagues. So, maybe instead of the 'Special One', people should start calling me the 'Only One'.

  Jose Mourinho

  People, Special, Important

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