League Quotes - Page 35

• Johnny Bench
  befriended me my first year in the big leagues. He took me under his wing during my first All-Star Game and we've been friends ever since. He's one guy I've tried to emulate and I'll always compare myself to Johnny (Bench).

  Gary Carter

  Stars, Games, Wings

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• My major league debut came at old Busch Stadium on Grand Avenue in St. Louis, against the Pittsburgh Pirates. The first pitch I threw was to third baseman Bob Bailey. It was a fastball, low and away. He ripped it for a home run down the left field line. I said, 'Damn, that was a pretty good pitch.

  Steve Carlton

  Running, Home, Pirate

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• Like a lot of people who get into coaching, I was impacted by the people in my life. Certainly my father (John) who coached me in youth league baseball, and my high school coach, Joe Moore, were mentors and major influences.

  Kirk Ferentz

  Baseball, Father, School

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• They're (California Angels) like the American League All-Star team, and that's their problem, the American League All-Star team always loses.

  Dan Quisenberry

  Stars, Team, Angel

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• When I came over here (the National League), I always heard it was a stronger league, with amphetamines all over the clubhouse, but all I found was Michelob Dry.

  Dan Quisenberry

  Stronger, Amphetamines, Dry

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• I'm anxious to face them (major league pitchers) all, but in reality I'm looking forward most to (Boston's) Pedro Martinez. He was with the major league team that came to Japan in 1996, just before he became a superstar. I'm anxious to see how much he's improved. And I'm anxious to see how much I've improved against him.

  Ichiro Suzuki

  Team, Reality, Japan

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• I used to be hyper, throw crazy and not think about what I wanted to do with each pitch. Now I have a better understanding of what it is to be a major league pitcher.

  Johan Santana

  Crazy, Thinking, Understanding

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• The peace conference must not adjourn without the establishment of some ordered system of international government, backed by power enough to give authority to its decrees.Unless a league something like this results at our peace conference, we shall merely drop back into armed hostility and international anarchy. The war will have been fought in vain.

  Virginia Gildersleeve

  Peace, War, Government

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• I am certain that a solution of the general problem of peace must rest on broad and basic understanding on the part of its peoples. Great single endeavors like a League of Nations, a United Nations, and undertakings of that character, are of great importance and in fact absolutely necessary, but they must be treated as steps toward the desired end.

  George C. Marshall

  Character, Understanding, Facts

  George C. Marshall's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1953.

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• We (Derek Jeter and I) want to kill each other. I think we both drive each other and motivate each other. But, when we're off the field, we're like family. I think the nice thing about it is we became good friends before we even mad it to the big leagues. That makes it more of a healthy relationship.

  Alex Rodriguez

  Nice, Good Friend, Thinking

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• He (Buck Showaleter) never even smelled a jock in the big leagues. Mr. Baseball never even got a hit in Triple-A. I was a better player than him, I have more money than him and I'm better looking than him.

  Ozzie Guillen

  Baseball, Player, Bucks

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• I started to crouch because that way I could guard the plate better, and I always wanted to hit .300 in the big leagues.

  Stan Musial

  Way, Bigs, Plates

  "Musial was gentleman killer" by Larry Schwartz, www.espn.com.

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• Is America becoming decadent? Do we no longer regard our promises and pledges as sacred? ... We promised to make peace with Germany only in conjunction with the Allies; but we brought forward a separate peace, demanding for ourselves all the advantages of the Treaty of Versailles but rejecting all the responsibilities embodied in the Treaty. It was America's President who induced Europe to form a League of Nations; and then America was the first country that refused to joint it.... If these are not the symptoms of national decadency, what are they?

  B. C. Forbes

  Country, Responsibility, America

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• I don't see anyone playing in the major leagues today (1982) who combines both the talent and the intensity that I had. I always tried to do the best. I knew I couldn't always be the best, but I tried to be.

  Frank Robinson

  Today, Talent, Being The Best

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• Can we expect the redemption of the world from scholars? I doubt it. But the time has come for all artists to join together as a confederation in an eternal league.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Artist, Doubt, Together

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• in order to confer their lost Nationality upon exiled Jews , the British with the help of the League of Nations began to rehabilitate the old Hebrew country, Palestine, with its long lost children. The Jews had maintained their race, religion, culture and language; and all they wanted was their natural territory to complete their Nationality. The reconstruction of the Hebrew Nation on Palestine is just an affirmation of the fact that Country, Race, Religion, Culture and Language must exist unequivocally together to form the Nation idea.

  M. S. Golwalkar

  Country, Children, Order

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• Strange is this alien despotism of Sleep which takes two persons lying in each other's arms & separates them leagues, continents,asunder.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Lying, Sleep, Two

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.145, Harvard University Press

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• I want to stay around longer than the pitchers who were at the top when I came into the big leagues. I don't want to be gone and have all the old guys - Seaver, Carlton, Ryan and Sutton - still pitching. I got rid of Palmer, now I want to outlast the rest of them.

  Bert Blyleven

  Guy, Gone, Want

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• In baseball, I don't fraternize with players when it's time to hit. I'm preparing for the game. It's the most important time of the day. And I know if I don't hit, I won't have a job in the big leagues. That's why I tend to get very upset when people try to talk to me.

  Albert Belle

  Baseball, Jobs, Player

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• We have to move the meter in sports in Africa, especially basketball. With the growth of the NBA globally, we have to figure out more ways to develop facilities, coaching, leagues, and youth development in Africa. The talent is incredible. Especially physically. How do we get the youth to start playing at an early age just like in soccer? The future is bright. We now have an NBA office in Africa, we have legends and Hall of Famers, we have African assistant coaches, front office members, and some prominent African players over the last 10 years. So we must plan well for the next 10.

  Masai Ujiri

  Basketball, Soccer, Sports

  "Is African Soccer the NBA’s New Breeding Ground?" by Ange Kagame, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 4, 2015.

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• I remember being in buses, hotel lobbies and bars leading up to the 1994 World Cup talking with guys about how great it would be to have a legitimate league of our own, so getting on the plane in Italy to return and be part of the first year of MLS was one of the proudest moments of my life.

  Alexi Lalas

  Life, Talking, Years

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• The godly man contrarily is afraid of nothing; not of God, because he knows Him his best friend, and will not hurt him; not of Satan, because he cannot hurt him; not of afflictions, because he knows they come from a loving God, and end in his good; not of the creatures, since "the very stones in the field are in league with Him;" not of himself, since his conscience is at peace.

  Joseph Hall

  Hurt, Godly, Men

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• We want to do what is good for Cardiff and for the long-term survival, and hopefully Cardiff can be around for a long time and, God willing, be around in the Premier League.

  Vincent Tan

  Long, Survival, Want

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• One thing about everything that I've done is it's so diverse and all over the place, from doing crazy stunts that I can't believe that I've done to launching professional skateboard leagues to all types of different business stuff and television shows. To me, I'm real proud of the body of work, that I've done as opposed to one thing specifically.

  Rob Dyrdek

  Crazy, Real, Believe

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• It's not legal to gamble but it is legal to do fantasy leagues. To me it's an outlet where people can go on, play, and make some money.

  Slaine

  Play, People, Goes On

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