League Quotes - Page 14

• The National Football league is on the wrong side of history.

  Tom Cole

  Football, Sides

  "Congress Pressures D.C. Football Team To Change Name" By Luke Johnson, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 10, 2014.

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• After so many drive-in waitresses becoming movie stars, there has been this real drought, when along come class; somebody who actually went to school, can spell, maybe even plays the piano. She may be a wispy, thin little thing, but when you see that girl, you know you're really in the presence of something. In that league there's only ever been Garbo, and the other Hepburn, and maybe Bergman. It's a rare quality, but boy, do you know when you've found it.

  Billy Wilder

  Girl, Stars, Real

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• This means that the search for a formula of European cooperation in connection with the League of Nations, far from weakening the authority of this latter must and can only tend to strengthen it, for it is closely connected with its aims.

  Aristide Briand

  Mean, Connections, Cooperation

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• The European organisation contemplated could not oppose any ethnic group, on other continents or in Europe itself, outside of the League of Nations, any more than it could oppose the League of Nations.

  Aristide Briand

  Europe, Groups, Organisation

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• Georgie Porgie, he might buy the whole league, but he doesn't have enough money to buy fear to put in my heart.

  Pedro Martinez

  Heart, Might, Enough

  Pedro Martinez, Michael Silverman (2015). “Pedro”, p.219, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You know how you just don't like guys on the other team sometimes? It's funny because growing up I loved Roger (Clemens), loved to watch Roger pitch. Then when I was first in the big leagues and he was for the other team, I hated him.

  Andy Pettitte

  Growing Up, Team, Guy

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• Everything with me is normal except when I pitch (in Fenway Park). When I pitch here it's a little different. There is a little more anxiety to go along with the nostalgia because this is the park I grew up with as a kid. This is the park I dreamed of playing Major League Baseball in and no other ballpark has that feeling for me. There are a lot more family and friends here than in my normal starts and I want to pitch well here.

  Tom Glavine

  Baseball, Kids, Anxiety

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• I always look in the Sunday paper to see where Everton are in the league - starting, of course, from the bottom up.

  Bill Shankly

  Sunday, Looks, Paper

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• Voters inclined to loathe and fear elite Ivy League schools rarely make fine distinctions between Yale and Harvard. All they know is that both are full of rich, fancy, stuck-up and possibly dangerous intellectuals who never sit down to supper in their undershirt no matter how hot the weather gets.

  Russell Baker

  School, Yale, Ivy

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• Sometimes you feel the emotion. You think this might be my last pre-season or my last Champions League match. But, overall, those thoughts aren't important right now. But the time will soon come

  Dennis Bergkamp

  Sports, Thinking, Champions League

  "Dennis Bergkamp" by Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. April 18, 2004.

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• I'll take account of things at the end of the season. Now I'm expecting a good finish to the league season.

  Carlo Ancelotti

  Expecting, Ends, Accounts

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• The Saints are Louisiana's team and have been since the late '60s when my predecessor Pete Rozelle welcomed them to the league as New Orleans' team and Louisiana's team. Our focus continues to be on having the Saints in Louisiana.

  Paul Tagliabue

  Team, New Orleans, Focus

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• I would say the league is viable as long as you have owners who want to continue funding losses. But it's not on the long term a sustainable business model that we're happy to be supporting. It needs to be reset.

  David Stern

  Loss, Long, Needs

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• I always wanted to be a player, but I never had the talent to make the big leagues. So I did the next best thing: I bought a team.

  Charlie Finley

  Team, Player, Next

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• I am involved in minor league baseball. I go around the country speaking to troubled youths, trying to help them understand that whatever path they choose, they'll need to really pay attention to it.

  Gerry Cooney

  Baseball, Country, Trying

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

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• Vagisil. Any one of them will give you another two to three inches drop on your curve ball. Of course if the umps are watching me real close I'll rub a little jalapeno up my nose, get it runnin', and if I need to load the ball up I just... (wipes his nose)

  Eddie Harris

  Real, Curves, Two

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• Brandon Rush is not just one of the best freshmen in the league, he's one of the best players.

  Kelvin Sampson

  Player, Freshman, Just One

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• I played with Joey Mullen back in Salt Lake City before he got called up to St. Louis. He was the first player ever to score 20 goals in the American League and 20 in the NHL. I've kept in contact with him and he's a great guy.

  Alain Vigneault

  Player, Lakes, Nhl

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• Bryzgalov isn’t just a running comedy act. He’s one of the league’s most thoughtful players and the fact that he offers the insight he does in his second language is something he’ll never get enough credit for.

  Ilya Bryzgalov

  Running, Thoughtful, Player

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• I don’t care if half the league strikes. Those who do will encounter quick retribution. All will be suspended, and I don’t care if it wrecks the league for 10 years. This is the United States of America, and one citizen has as much right to play as another.

  Ford Frick

  Years, Play, America

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• Bettman is an asshole. A frikkin asshole. I think he's ruined the game of hockey. He's supposed to be impartial. He's supposed to speak for the good of the league, but in my opinion, he's strictly behind the owners. Those 1996 rule changes are a joke

  Bob Probert

  Hockey, Thinking, Games

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• Typical of most French guys in our league with a visor on, running around and playing tough and not back anything up.

  Sean Avery

  Running, Guy, Typical

  Sean Avery (2017). “Offside: My Life Crossing the Line”, p.158, Penguin

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• We have a great chance to be an NCAA basketball tournament team if we take care of business night in and night out in our league. Records are deceiving. You can schedule your way into a 10-1 or 11-0 record. I have learned that you're not going to trick the NCAA tournament selection committee.

  Mark Gottfried

  Basketball, Lying, Team

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• On the Russian revolutionaries:To leave your parents, faithful and loyal subjects of the Emperor, to leave your profession, to desist from having children, to lose your fortune, and to give up your civil honor, all for revolutionary conviction, makes for a league of more practical proof than any religious order.

  Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

  Religious, Children, Giving Up

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• I can only guess that, for guys in their 30s and 40s who watched me play, they understood that the score never mattered and my paycheck never mattered (in relation) to how I played. I played with Little League enthusiasm and professional flair. That's what fans are really looking for.

  Andy Van Slyke

  Sports, Play, Guy

  "Answer Man: Andy Van Slyke talks slugging Bonds, coaching first". Interview with David Brown, sports.yahoo.com. May 1, 2008.

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