League Quotes - Page 22

• It does not make a goalkeeper look good and, after it, I did not want to celebrate out of respect for him.

  Asmir Begovic

  Football, Doe, Looks

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• When managers have got decisions to make, whether it benefits me or not, I have to be man enough to take it.

  Joe Hart

  Football, Men, Decision

  "City Manchester City's Joe Hart to miss out on cup final against Sunderland" by Jamie Jackson, www.theguardian.com. February 28, 2014.

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• The sooner that little so-and-so goes to rugby league, the better it will be for us.

  Dickie Jeeps

  Rugby League, Littles, Rugby

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• I'm 49, I've had a brain haemorrhage and a triple bypass and I could still go out and play a reasonable game of rugby union. But I wouldn't last 30 seconds in rugby league.

  Graham Lowe

  Rugby League, Games, Play

  "Quotes of the Week". www.independent.co.uk. October 20, 1995.

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• League is much, much more physical than Union, and that's before anyone starts breaking the rules.

  Adrian Hadley

  Rugby League, Unions, Rugby

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• The more that Japanese players go to the big leagues to play and succeed, the more that will serve to inspire young kids in Japan to want to become baseball players when they grow up.

  Ichiro Suzuki

  Sports, Baseball, Growing Up

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• My first year of pro ball I played in the Northwest league and made the all-star team, and the next year I played I led the team in hitting and was third or fifth in the league.

  Kurt Russell

  Teamwork, Stars, Years

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• And then when I went to stay in '68, I can honestly say that I was not focused on my career and on what it took to be a major league pitcher and to be a starting pitcher.

  Nolan Ryan

  Sports, Careers, Honest

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• Each lodge is an oasis if equality and good will in a desert of strife, working to wield mankind into a great league of sympathy and services, which, by the terms of our definition, it seeks to exhibit now on a small scale.

  Joseph Fort Newton

  Oasis, Definitions, Desert

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• It's interesting that you put me in the league with those illustrious fighters [Muhammad Ali, Joe Louis, Jack Johnson], but I've proved since my career I've surpassed them as far my popularity. I'm the biggest fighter in the history of the sport. If you don't believe it, check the cash register.

  Mike Tyson

  Sports, Motivation, Fear

  "Tyson unplugged: On media, fans and his reputation". www.espn.com. May 5, 2002.

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• You can be the best person in the league but if you don't win championships, something's missing.

  Terrell Davis

  Missing You, Winning, Championship

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• How could it be little me had the power to be The best 'B' in the league yeah inevitably

  Nicki Minaj

  Littles, Bragging, Being The Best

  Song: Blazin', Album: Pink Friday, 2010

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• When I was in college there was a girls' flag football league. The girls were extremely aggressive.

  Lynn Swann

  Girl, Football, College

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• But I think the Champions League Final puts a massive pressure on every player and the manager, but we're enjoying the pressure and hopefully we can go there and win it.

  Steven Gerrard

  Soccer, Player, Thinking

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

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• The way of success is not run with seven league boots but step by step, little by little, bit by bit ... with no exceptions allowed.

  Sterling W Sill

  Success, Running, Littles

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• We need wilderness because we are wild animals. Everyone needs a place where he can go to go crazy in peace. For the terror, freedom, and delirium. Because we need brutality and raw adventure, because men and women first learned to love in, under, and all around trees, because we need for every pair of feet and legs about ten leagues of naked nature, crags to leap from, mountains to measure by, deserts to finally die in when the heart fails.

  Edward Abbey

  Crazy, Heart, Adventure

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• Well, I wanted to play twenty years in the major leagues. I never made it twenty though. I played nineteen.

  Bert Campaneris

  Years, Play, Twenties

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• I'm sure Putnam is right that there's been a decline in certain kinds of organizations like bowling leagues. But people participate in communities in other ways.

  Peter L. Berger

  Aggravation, Organization, People

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• I guess that's what Little League is all about -- trying.

  Nolan Ryan

  Trying, Littles, Little League

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• In the big leagues everyone has ability. It always comes down to mind games. Who ever is more mentally strong-wins.

  Muhammad Ali

  Strong, Winning, Games

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• One of the things I want ... all the kids here to remember, is that these [Major League Soccer] stars were not born superstar athletes ... Many of them started out just like many of you-playing on a team at school, or just kicking a ball around on the playground with their friends. But they stuck with it. And I tell this to my girls all the time. I mean, you get to the point when ... things you enjoy ... start getting hard-that's when you know you're getting good, and you have to stick through it.

  Michelle Obama

  Soccer, Girl, Stars

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• Tom Brady is good, real good...but he plays in same league as I do.

  Cam Newton

  Real, Play, Brady

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• There is no life for girls in team sports past
  Little League. I got into tennis when I realized this, and because I
  thought golf would be too slow for me, and I was too scared to swim.

  Billie Jean King

  Girl, Sports, Team

  FaceBook post by Billie Jean King from May 15, 2010

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• I dont want to return to France, because Ive won everything there - league title, cup, best player, best young player

  Eden Hazard

  Player, Titles, Want

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• When people start comparing him with (Michael) Jordan then that's not a fair comparison. Jordan was a far more superior player in a very tough league, he was very creative. That's not taking away anything from LeBron because he is a great player, but it is not a fair comparison because Jordan is a far superior player.

  Hakeem Olajuwon

  Player, People, Creative

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