League Quotes - Page 11

• I perform in the major leagues of what I do. It's incredible.

  Darrell Hammond

  Major League, Incredibles, Majors

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• Detroit is still seen as the tough city, a city that has a reputation for high crime, ... The tough city thing is fine. Its always had a reputation as that. ... You know, Gordie Howe, when I was watching hockey, was the toughest guy in the league playing for the Red Wings. He represented that tough aura.

  Eugene Levy

  Hockey, Cities, Wings

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• On paper we might be the best team in the league. We’ve got great players on this team who accomplished so much. We just couldn’t put it together.

  Amar'e Stoudemire

  Team, Player, Together

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• To convert college sports into professional sports would be tantamount to converting it into minor league sports. And we know that in the U.S., minor league sports aren’t very successful either for fan support or for the fan experience.

  Mark Emmert

  Sports, Successful, College

  "NCAA leader Mark Emmert decries 'pay for play' as a threat to core of college sports", www.foxnews.com. June 19, 2014.

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• I show up on the injury report as much as the statsheet, but if I’m healthy, I’m going to be a late-round steal in most leagues. Last year I had more than 1,000 yards on the ground despite my injuries, and I had six rushing touchdowns despite Andre Brown vulturing my goal line duties around mid-season. Now I’m in Indianapolis, and my new offensive coordinator is implementing a West Coast offense that should get me plenty of carries and a few catches each game. Plus, I’ll be the goal line guy. If I’m not wearing a boot.

  Ahmad Bradshaw

  Rushing, Years, Games

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• When I then went to Welling I had to think about the possibility of getting another job outside of football. If that hadn't worked out then I would probably have joined the family building firm, working as a ‘brickie’ or something like that. It is a big leap to be playing in the Champions League final - the biggest game of my career - but after what I've been through to get here, it holds no fears for me.

  Steve Finnan

  Football, Jobs, Thinking

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• You can pick any game and there are two or three plays that determine whether you win or lose, going either way. That's the beauty of the league, man. Every game counts, no matter who you're playing or what their record is.

  Derrick Brooks

  Winning, Men, Games

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• I'm looking forward to meeting my new team-mates and to be playing for Arsenal in the Premier League and Champions League. I will give my best to Arsenal and want to make all the supporters happy.

  Alexis Sanchez

  Team, Champions League, Giving

  "Arsenal confirm the signing of Alexis Sánchez from Barcelona" by Ed Aarons, www.theguardian.com. July 10, 2014.

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• George Bowering doesn’t play fair. Baseball Love is so good there is no memoir in the league that can go up against it. Bowering has a sense of story and an eye for detail that eliminate the possibility that he was a lousy second baseman. Reading a home run is fun.

  Robert Kroetsch

  Baseball, Running, Fun

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• Brooks Robinson belongs in a higher league.

  Pete Rose

  Sports, Brooks, Higher

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• People say I don't have great tools. They say that I can't throw like Ellis Valentine or run like Tim Raines or hit with power like Mike Schmidt. Who can? I make up for it in other ways, by putting out a little bit more. That's my theory, to go through life hustling. In the big leagues, hustle usually means being in the right place at the right time. It means backing up a base. It means backing up your teammate. It means taking that headfirst slide. It means doing everything you can do to win a baseball game.

  Pete Rose

  Baseball, Running, Valentine

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• Marijuana is not tested for, and yet that is the big thing guys are getting in trouble with in the league. It's terrible

  Karl Malone

  Marijuana, Guy, Trouble

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• Steve Nash is the most unathletic player in the league.

  Bill Walton

  Player

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• I don't want to be a Major League coach.

  Barry Bonds

  Sports, Ties, Want

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'd like to help educate kids about the Major Leagues - what to anticipate, what to expect, what they'll need to do to prepare themselves.

  Barry Bonds

  Education, Kids, Needs

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

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• Youngsters of Little League can survive undercoaching a lot better than overcoaching.

  Willie Mays

  Littles, Little League, Youngsters

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• Too many kids today are playing major league ball and don't belong there.

  Joe DiMaggio

  Sports, Kids, Balls

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It's funny, 'cause it seems like just yesterday that I was the youngest player just starting out. But now there are young players all over the league, and they'll ask me questions about playing overseas or finding an agent.

  Sue Wicks

  Player, Yesterday, Starting Over

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• I had no experience with broadcasting basketball games, so I took a tape recorder and went to a playground where there was a summer league, and I stood up in the top of the stands and I called the game.

  Ed Bradley

  Inspirational, Basketball, Summer

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• I grew up with baseball; I played in Little League and went to games with my dad. But I, as I grew up, became more of a basketball fanatic than a baseball one.

  Jonah Hill

  Inspirational, Basketball, Baseball

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. September 21, 2011.

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• But baseball bounced back in the next decade to reclaim its place as the national pastime: new heroes, spirited competition, and booming prosperity gave birth to dreams of expansion, both within the major leagues and around the world.

  John Thorn

  Baseball, Dream, Hero

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• With all the media attention, all the love from the fans, I felt I needed to prove myself. Prove that I'm not a marketing tool, I'm not a ploy to improve attendance. Prove I can play in this league. But I've surrendered that to God. I'm not in a battle with what everybody else thinks anymore.

  Jeremy Lin

  Thinking, Media, Play

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• Pitching in the big leagues is a dream. Preparing to pitch in the big leagues is a nightmare!

  Nolan Ryan

  Dream, Pitching, Nightmare

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• I came into the game when I broke into the major leagues, the minimum salary was seven thousand dollars, and I'd have to go home in the wintertime and get a job.

  Nolan Ryan

  Sports, Jobs, Home

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• Every writer has his favorite coterie of enemies: Mine is the East Coast literati -- those prep school playmates and their Ivy League colleagues.

  Edward Abbey

  School, Ivy, Enemy

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.34, RosettaBooks

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