League Quotes - Page 37

• As a youngster, I played in Little League, Pony League, and all sorts of amateur baseball programs growing up.

  Jim Evans

  Baseball, Growing Up, Pregnancy

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• Anyone interested in becoming a professional umpire and becoming eligible to work in the minor leagues must attend one of the two umpire schools sanctioned by Major League Baseball.

  Jim Evans

  Baseball, School, Umpires

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• I had great, great times as a Little League coach. People were talking about me quitting acting, and they would say, What about your creative juices? Coaching is creative, because you could take a kid who thought he wasn't any good and, within four minutes, change his mind. And I didn't have to wait six months for them to put music to it.

  James Caan

  Change, Kids, Talking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The Florida State League was considered the top A-league back then. You played in the spring training parks of major league teams, traveled throughout some great cities in Florida, and the pay was the best in A-ball.

  Jim Evans

  Spring, Team, Florida

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• When I was 14, I played in a summer league. One night the chief umpire asked me if I would like to try umpiring. There was a Little League tournament coming up and he needed more umpires than he had.

  Jim Evans

  Summer, Night, Umpires

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• Minor league umpires are evaluated in their respective leagues each year and rated numerically. This enables umpires to know where they stand and helps them make prudent career decisions.

  Jim Evans

  Years, Umpires, Careers

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• Umpires, like players, are expected to show constant improvement each season and at each level. Inconsistent plate work and the inability to handle situations are probably the two biggest problems that minor league umpires face.

  Jim Evans

  Player, Umpires, Two

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• I was playing little league baseball when Bruce Jenner was winning the gold but I don't think I was really paying attention at that time.

  Dan O'Brien

  Baseball, Winning, Thinking

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• Boston is a very proud franchise. The NBA misses them when they are not in the mix. They, along with teams like the Knicks and 76ers are a big part of the heart, soul and history of the league.

  Doug Collins

  Team, Heart, Boston

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• After one year in the Texas League, the American League bought the rights to my contract. They optioned me back to the Texas League for the 1970 season.

  Jim Evans

  Rights, Texas, Years

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• I predict that many teams will go out of business and the size of the leagues will be greatly reduced.

  Will McDonough

  Team, Size

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• There is something very unnatural and odious in a government a thousand leagues off. A whole government of our own choice, managed by persons whom we love, revere, and can confide in, has charms in it for which men will fight.

  John Adams

  Fighting, Men, Choices

  John Adams (2012). “The Letters of John and Abigail Adams”, p.142, Simon and Schuster

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• It is important to us to understand and discuss a "vision" with both leagues and then sponsor the league that best matches our views and direction on growing the sport. To do that, there must be a tie back to our grass roots efforts. In short, our marketing plan for new players has to ultimately point to a league and its players.

  John Robinson

  Sports, Player, Views

  Source: propaintball.com

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• Coaches who have been players in the league, they get so attuned to playing how they were successful, and who their coaches were.

  Jerry West

  Successful, Player, Coaches

  Source: espn.go.com

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• As an american, you're born aiming so high - boys want to play in the major leagues, girls want to be princesses. We're cultivating little champions. It's like the land of little champions.

  Steven Conrad

  Girl, Princess, Boys

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Encouragement is the most important thing in the world for young people, rather than league tables, which demoralise everyone.

  Tony Benn

  Encouragement, People, Important

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• You don't need Little League. You don't even need nine kids. Four is plenty-a pitcher, a batter, and a couple of shaggers. You can play ball all day long. My kids used to try to get me out there, but I'd just say, "Go play with your brothers." If kids want to do something, they'll do it. They don't need adults to do it for them.

  Yogi Berra

  Brother, Couple, Kids

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• Man, I didn't think I stood a chance. I mean, she was way out of my league.she still is.

  Tim McGraw

  Mean, Men, Thinking

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• There is a double-standard between men and women. My father was a major league baseball player, and I grew up thinking I could have the same attitude on the field that he did. When I did that in real life, people thought I was a total bi-atch.

  Katie Uhlaender

  Baseball, Attitude, Father

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• He [Vince Spadea] was about as down and out as you could see from a Top 20 player. Then to claw his way back through the minor leagues and do it the hard way where he wasn't young, wasn't getting wildcards, wasn't getting any help. I guess he decided he was just going to do it.

  Andy Roddick

  Player, Down And, Way

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• When I think of Arsenal, my favourite personal memory that I recall is scoring my first goal for the Club - away to Lazio in the Champions League. It was important because when you join a new club, you really want to score your first goal. It's where everything started for me at this club

  Robert Pires

  Memories, Thinking, Champions League

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• When I discovered PopTech and other kind of intellectualish, online portals for curiosity. Very quickly, I just got so much more out of those than from so-called "Ivy League" education that I knew it was on me to keep myself stimulated, and to keep learning, more than anything. And, because I paid my way through college, I was working at Penn, two to four jobs at a time to pay for school.

  Maria Popova

  Jobs, School, College

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• They think America is like a major league in entertainment. For me personally being here for the past year-and-a-half, I know some of the arguments and discrepancies African American actors have with the opportunities here.

  Aml Ameen

  Opportunity, Thinking, Past

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• It was feminism that made it possible for women to go to the Ivy League and women to be astronauts and women to have their own TV shows. What happened, though, was that the generation after feminism, which is my generation, misunderstood what feminism was saying.

  Debora Spar

  Tv Shows, Ivy, Misunderstood

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• A lot of people don't trust the pitch. There's this kind of reputation it has for being untrustworthy and fickle and capricious and everything else, and those are words that big league managers and general managers and organizations aren't too fond of.

  R.A. Dickey

  Organization, People, Fickle

  "Master of the Knuckleball". Interview with Jeremy Stahl, www.slate.com. October 29,2012.

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