League Quotes - Page 27

• Everyone today is like, 'Shailene, you're getting so much buzz. How does the feel?' It's the most odd question because it's like asking a kid who got into Cornell how it feels to be the top of your class at one of the Ivy League schools. How do you answer that? You just go, 'I don't know.

  Shailene Woodley

  School, Kids, Class

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• My high school coach was Ray O'Conner. He has coached a lot of players that have signed professional contracts, and many of those have gone on to play in the major leagues.

  Robin Yount

  Sports, School, Player

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• What is the highest secret to victory and peace? To will what God wills, and strike a league with destiny.

  William Rounseville Alger

  Peace, Destiny, Secret

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• A League of Their Own' had some special meaning for me, I guess - it's about women joining together and being empowered, but also about sisters sticking together even when there's drama and struggles. I'm really close to my two sisters and my brother, so I liked that about it.

  Rebel Wilson

  Brother, Drama, Struggle

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• Big league defense is going to get outs most times.

  Barry Zito

  Sports, Defense, Bigs

  "Barry Zito Visits Athletics Nation". Interview with Tyler Bleszinski, www.athleticsnation.com. March 29, 2005.

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• I looked up to my father when I was 7 and 8. I believed it was my calling to be in the big leagues. I'd been raised by a family that always told me I could do anything I wanted.

  Barry Zito

  Father, Calling, Bigs

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• Let me be clear: Any new approach must ensure the integrity of the game. One of my most important responsibilities as commissioner of the NBA is to protect the integrity of professional basketball and preserve public confidence in the league and our sport. I oppose any course of action that would compromise these objectives. But I believe that sports betting should be brought out of the underground and into the sunlight where it can be appropriately monitored and regulated

  Adam Silver

  Basketball, Sports, Integrity

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• I came out of my professional athlete career with a 450 credit score, no money in the bank to show for it, but I had an Ivy League degree. So I put that Dartmouth degree to good use and got a job on Wall Street. I hated it but used the time to make connections and become financially literate.

  Brian J. White

  Jobs, Wall, Athlete

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• Other teams have offered me really big money but my love for Galatasaray is real. I want to play in major leagues and my dream team is Liverpool F.C. As I always mention, Liverpool attracts me because of their tradition. In Europe, I am a Liverpool supporter, so if I go to play in Europe, I would like to play for them.

  Arda Turan

  Dream, Real, Team

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• It was always a wish for me to work in the Premier League. To work as a manager for Manchester United, the biggest club in the world, makes me very proud. I have managed in games at Old Trafford before and know what an incredible arena Old Trafford is and how passionate and knowledgeable the fans are. This club has big ambitions; I too have big ambitions. Together I'm sure we will make history.

  Louis van Gaal

  Ambition, Games, Together

  "Spain, Netherlands will meet again in World Cup". Interview with Kevin Baxter, www.latimes.com. June 03, 2014.

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• My mom is always with me. When I made my major-league debut I told her, 'That's it. You don't work anymore. I'm going to work and take care of you.

  Melky Cabrera

  Mom, Care, Made

  "Torrid-hitting Giant making name for self" by Henry Schulman, www.sfgate.com. June 1, 2012.

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• Spanish football is very good but every year the same teams win the league.

  Royston Drenthe

  Football, Team, Winning

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• Skullcrack City messes with your mind the way William Burroughs or a bellyful of hallucinogens will do. I'm a longtime fan of Johnson. A master of derangement, he's been bringing it for years. This time, though, it's different. He's burst into the clear and is taking seven-league strides across the literary landscape.

  Laird Barron

  Years, Cities, Mind

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• Always wanted to be a Major League player. Loved baseball. Followed it. Loved to play. Plus, I could always hit.

  Stan Musial

  Baseball, Player, Plus

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• Baseball people are generally allergic to new ideas; it took years to persuade them to put numbers on uniforms, and it is the hardest thing in the world to get Major League Baseball to change anything—even spikes on a new pair of shoes—but they will eventually...they are bound to.

  Branch Rickey

  Baseball, Shoes, Ideas

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• My thing is, I want to play basketball, I would enjoy playing in the D-League, but at the same time I don't want to take an opportunity away from a young guy to get exposure. I'm still thinking about it.

  Michael Finley

  Basketball, Opportunity, Thinking

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• If I don't make the team out of spring training, I'll keep a good attitude. I'll just go polish up the parts of my game that made me not stay in the big leagues.

  Cory Lidle

  Attitude, Spring, Team

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• It's hard to view myself sometimes as even in the same league as other musicians, mainly because there's so much music before me. I feel overinformed by different styles and different possibilities.

  Ryan Adams

  Views, Style, Musician

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. June 28, 2007.

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• Unity and self-sacrifice, of themselves, even when fostered by the most noble means, produce a facility for hating. Even when men league themselves mightily together to promote tolerance and peace on earth, they are likely to be violently intolerant toward those not of a like mind.

  Eric Hoffer

  Hate, Mean, Sacrifice

  ERIC HOFFER (1963). “THE TRUE BELIEVER”

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• I mean no disrespect to Scottish football, but the Premier League is the biggest stage and highest profile league of all.

  Peter Shilton

  Football, Mean, Disrespect

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• Austin, Texas, and Columbus, Ohio, are the two toughest communities in which you have to put together a winning football team. They are both big metropolitan areas without professional football and major league baseball to sidetrack them.

  Brent Musburger

  Baseball, Football, Team

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• Co-operating critics comb the studios like big-league scouts, prepared to spot the art of the future and to take lead in establishing reputations. Art historians stand by ready with cameras and notebooks to make sure every novel detail is safe for the record. The tradition of the new has reduced all other traditions to triviality.

  Harold Rosenberg

  Notebook, Art, Future

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• Although his playing career with the Broncos took place before my time with the team, I am well aware of what Floyd Little means to this franchise, city and league. Aside from his stellar play on the field, he helped make the Broncos relevant in the NFL and strengthened the bond between this team and its fans. He has waited a long time for this honor, and I couldn't be happier for him.

  Pat Bowlen

  Team, Mean, Play

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• I had 11 years of managerial experience and four years of coaching before I managed a big-league team. To me, it was important, because I learned a lot through trial and error. And it's tough to have to go through trial and error when you're a big-league manager.

  Jim Leyland

  Team, Errors, Years

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• I need to be out earning. I can make more in two hours at a card show than I did [as a minor-league manager] all year.

  Mike Schmidt

  Years, Two, Needs

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