League Quotes - Page 33

• To me, there is no more conscientious umpire in the Major Leagues than Jim Joyce. He gives you a hellacious effort every time.

  Tony La Russa

  Umpires, Giving, Effort

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• I feel blessed that I had an opportunity to be in the Big Ten for four years as a player and be in the Big Ten as a coach for eight years. To get 12 years in a conference like the Big Ten - it's a first-class league with great towns and great fans.

  Steve Alford

  Blessed, Opportunity, Player

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• When I was 16 years old, my brother Frank said, 'You'd better become a catcher, because you're too big and fat to do anything else.' Well, I took his advice. It was a quick way to get to the big leagues, and I've never regretted it.

  Joe Torre

  Brother, Years, Advice

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• As a player, to me the Dodgers were the Yankees of the National League because you either loved them or you hated them.

  Joe Torre

  Player, Yankees, Hated

  "Joe Torre Hired to Take Over Los Angeles Dodgers". Associated Press, www.foxnews.com. November 01, 2007.

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• I think there's more of opportunity to win games in the National League than the American League because there are more decisions to make.

  Joe Torre

  Winning, Opportunity, Thinking

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• You get to the big leagues, and you think, 'Can I do this stuff?' Then you take the first pitch down the middle for Strike 1, and you think, 'I could have hit that.'

  Joe Torre

  Thinking, Stuff, Firsts

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• Major league baseball is about the history of the game. Baseball history is so important. It's so much more than money.

  Joe Torre

  Baseball, Games, Important

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• I am a National Football League player of American Samoan heritage. Because of my status as a professional athlete, I have been blessed to play a role in educating players and fans about the culture and history of America's southernmost territory.

  Troy Polamalu

  Football, Blessed, Athlete

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• I lost the good stuff on my fastball. I had to come up with something to keep me in the league. The knuckler rescued me then.

  Ted Lyons

  Stuff, Lost, Come Up

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• In sport, Americans are prominent in the Premier League - both on and off the pitch.

  Louis Susman

  Sports, Prominent, And Off

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• Homicide is the major leagues, the center ring, the show. It always has been ... It goes beyond academic degrees, specialized training or book learning, because all the theory in the world means nothing if you can't read the street.

  David Simon

  Book, Mean, Training

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• I was always a big Justice League fan. I always loved Batman, Superman - I have a weird Martian Manhunter fixation.

  David Liss

  Justice, Fans, Bigs

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• Watching National League pitchers trying to hit or even bunt is depressing.

  Ron Blomberg

  Depressing, Trying, Pitcher

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• There are people with a lot more talent than I have who have been weeded out of the league because they couldn't put their egos aside to fill a role.

  Kurt Rambis

  People, Ego, Roles

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• We're the victims of a disease called social prejudice, my child. These dear ladies of the law and order league are scouring out the dregs of the town. C'mon be a glorified wreck like me.

  Dudley Nichols

  Children, Order, Law

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• I want to be top scorer in the Premier League, top scorer at the World Cup and, within five years, I want to be among the best strikers in the world. Trust me, it will happen. I look around at other players, I see my own ability and I can't see anything that tells me it won't happen, I'm sure people will think 'What is he talking about?' But as I have done before, and as I will do again, I will sit at the other end and laugh at those people when it is all done.

  Nicklas Bendtner

  Player, Thinking, Talking

  "Successfully begging two fellow customers to sub him" by Barry Glendenning, www.theguardian.com. September 07, 2016.

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• If I were playing against Corey Perry, I’d probably want to hurt him in some painful and permanent way. And I think most of the rest of the league feels the same way.

  Mike Milbury

  Hurt, Thinking, Want

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• I was late to the Knicks. My dad was a big fan. But I first started watching baseball; I became a Red Sox fan. My dad was a Mets fan. I wanted to have my own team and league.

  Noah Baumbach

  Baseball, Dad, Team

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• When I play against someone that's new in the league, I make him respect me. They may have heard about me, but now you get to see me actually in front of you. That drives me.

  Michael Jordan

  Play, May, Respect Me

  "The Playboy Interview: Sports Gods". Interview with Mark Vancil, reprints.longform.org. May 1992.

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• We were totally opposite - me coming from the West Coast and a junior college, and him [ Christopher Reeve] from the hard-core Ivy League. He used to be the studly studly of all studlies, and I was the little fool ferret boy.

  Robin Williams

  Boys, College, Opposites

  Source: www.rd.com

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• Where the great force lies, there must be the sanction of peace.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Peace, Lying, Force

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1988). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• Any man that resists the present tides that run in the world, will find himself thrown upon a shore so high and barren that it will seem he has been separated from his human kind forever.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Running, Men, Forever

  Woodrow Wilson, United States. President (1913-1921 : Wilson) (1924). “The messages and papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• We are participants, whether we would or not, in the life of the world.... We are partners with the rest. What affects mankind isinevitably our affair as well as the nations of Europe and Asia.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Europe, World, Asia

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• A living thing is born.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Born, League Of Nations, Living Things

  Woodrow Wilson (1965). “The Political Thought of Woodrow Wilson”

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• Every mob, in its ignorance and blindness and bewilderment, is a League of Frightened Men that seeks reassurance in collective action.

  Max Lerner

  Ignorance, Men, Civilization

  Max Lerner (1959). “The Unfinished Country”

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