League Quotes - Page 16

• Destroying white civilization is the inmost desire of the league of designated victims we call minorities.

  Joseph Sobran

  Civilization, White, Desire

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• The Covenant of the League of Nations had envisaged sponsoring only the protection of certain categories of men: national minorities and populations of territories controlled by other countries.

  Rene Cassin

  Country, Men, Population

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• We're in a league of our own darling and don't you forget it.

  Zacky Vengeance

  Forget, Darling, Forget It

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• As a player I won things, had a special 10 years under Martin O'Neill [at Leicester and Celtic] and played in some great teams, beating Manchester United and getting to the last 16 of the Champions League. As a manager, I don't know if I will top this; I hope I do, because I am still young and am still learning. But this is up there with anything I have achieved, not just in my football career but in my life.

  Neil Lennon

  Football, Team, Player

  "Celtic's Neil Lennon: I haven't bettered this Barcelona win in my life" by Ewan Murray, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2012.

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• I played on an all-boys team in the 8th grade, but they wouldnt throw me the ball even though I was on their team. One day I stole the ball from my own teammate and I made a basket. From that point on, everyone yelled Give the ball to the girl! I was the only girl on the whole league!

  Lisa Leslie

  Girl, Team, Boys

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• The Gold Glove surprised me a little. To tell you the truth, I didn't expect it. I feel I played at the top of my game, but I was new to the league and I didn't think that many people would vote for me.

  Omar Vizquel

  Thinking, Games, People

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• My experience with the Junior League, when I worked in Philadelphia for four years in reference to children's things, is that whenever they were asked they responded. They always responded with sincerity, and they did a good job.

  C. Everett Koop

  Jobs, Children, Philadelphia

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• I never was brought into the league thinking as far as, you know, statistics, things like that. We were really brought into the league in a team concept. Everything was focused around winning.

  Mark Messier

  Team, Winning, Thinking

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• And then we moved to New Jersey and I went to the Art Students League.

  Donald Judd

  Art, Jersey, Students

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• Well Terry, can you tell us where you are in the league, how far are you ahead of the second team?

  Ian St John

  Soccer, Team, Where You Are

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• When you say you're a padre, people ask when did you become a parent. When you say you're a cardinal, they tell you to work hard because the next step is pope. But when you say you're a Dodger, everybody knows you're in the Major Leagues.

  Tommy Lasorda

  Baseball, Hard Work, People

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• Athletes who take to the classroom naturally or are encouraged to focus on grades should be able to do well in the classroom. I believe the reason you go to college is to get your degree. It's not a minor league or an audition for the pros

  Rebecca Lobo

  Believe, Athlete, College

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• I have used, you know, marijuana ... since Ive been in the league.

  Randy Moss

  Marijuana, Used, Knows

  "Randy Moss Admits Marijuana Use", www.foxnews.com. August 18, 2005.

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• I'm from West Virginia. If you didn't know what was happening in NASCAR, you were on the outside. NASCAR is a big league sport, but it's still also country and redneck.

  Randy Moss

  Sports, Country, Redneck

  "Randy Moss loving the NASCAR life". Interview with Ryan McGee, www.espn.com. April 1, 2011.

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• The best all-around [running] back in the league is Jamaal Charles. He has the ability to hit a homerun from anywhere.

  LaDainian Tomlinson

  Running, Ability, Running Back

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• I had the opportunity to play every day in the minors, and everybody knew me in the minors. In the big leagues, it was a little different. It was up and down and up and down, and I didn't get a chance to show people that I can play every day and I can be a superstar. Now, I can show everybody what they are getting from me.

  Felix Pie

  Opportunity, Play, People

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• The only thing Earl (Weaver) knows about big-league pitching is that he couldn't hit it.

  Jim Palmer

  Pitching, Weavers, Bigs

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• Like some cult religion that barely survives, there has always been at least one but rarely more than five or six devotees throwing the knuckleball in the big leagues . . . Not only can't pitchers control it, hitters can't hit it, catchers can't catch it, coaches can't coach it and most pitchers can't learn it. The perfect pitch.

  Ron Luciano

  Perfect, Knuckleballs, Six

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• There was nothing to keep him (Cal Ripken, Jr.) from being a star in the Major Leagues. That was inevitable.

  Earl Weaver

  Stars, Inevitable, Cal Ripken

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• I think the (brawl) made the league and the players more conscious of our responsibility to the public.

  Joe Dumars

  Responsibility, Player, Thinking

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• Everyone is more focused on presenting the best that the league has to offer, rather than the worst.

  Joe Dumars

  Worst, Offers, Presenting

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• I came to AS Roma to play in the Champions League

  Ashley Cole

  Champions League, Play, Champion

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• It is a commonplace that the League of Nations is not yet-what its most enthusiastic protagonists intended it to be

  Hjalmar Branting

  Corny, Enthusiastic, Protagonists

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• All in all, the League of Nations is not inevitably bound, as some maintain from time to time, to degenerate into an impotent appendage of first one, then another of the competing great powers

  Hjalmar Branting

  Firsts, Degenerates, Competing

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• Last year, the Assembly of the League, as a result of the initiative taken by the Scandinavian nations, further limited and clarified all the provisions of the clause prescribing the duty of states to participate in sanctions

  Hjalmar Branting

  Taken, Years, Lasts

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