League Quotes - Page 5

• I found that part of it towards San Salvador extending from north to south five leagues, and the other side which we coasted along, ran from east to west more than ten leagues.

  Christopher Columbus

  East, West, Sides

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• In my time, we had little league and junior league or whatever - before that, there's the sandlot. Kids played baseball wherever you can make a space. We played tackle-football on the street. Now we play basketball in the studio. We have a hoop. But we also have a pitching machine.

  Raymond Pettibon

  Basketball, Baseball, Kids

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think if you love someone, you think that they're out of your league, of course. I go for the full package though, you know, like not everything is based on looks. I go for talent and funny.

  Krysten Ritter

  Thinking, If You Love Someone, Talent

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Being an Arsenal fan, at the end of every season I say the same thing: we've got a good team, a young team, hopefully, we'll be in the running for the league title next season.

  James DeGale

  Running, Team, Hopefully

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• The good thing is that The Human League never really wanted to be in a pop group. We never wanted to be famous. We just liked the music. And I think that's kept us grounded. We're not interested in the celebrity side of anything. We just like getting on stage and doing what we're good at.

  Susan Ann Sulley

  Thinking, Good Things, Not Interested

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• To be very fair, it was Ian Marsh and Martyn Ware who started The Human League. They brought Philip Oakey in to sing, primarily because Philip was very tall. So it started out as their vision. I don't think anyone ever thought it would be as big as it became. Music evolves and people were looking for something different. We came out at the right time and were just very lucky.

  Susan Ann Sulley

  Thinking, People, Vision

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• As the longest-running women's professional sports league in the country, the WNBA is a great product comprising 132 of the best female athletes in the world. And when you look beyond the players to owners, coaches, trainers, accountants, and chief operating officers - it's a wonderful example of what women can achieve in sports and in business.

  Laurel J. Richie

  Sports, Country, Athlete

  Source: aalbc.com

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• The current relationship between Syria and Iran is abnormal. It is unprecedented in Syria's foreign policy history. A new Syria will be an indispensable part of the Arab League and it will work on improving the role of the Arab League and the role of Arab states regionally, specifically because they took a historic and unprecedented decision to back the Syrian people.

  Burhan Ghalioun

  People, Decision, Historic

  "Syria Opposition Leader Interview". The Wall Street Journal Interview, www.wsj.com. December 2, 2011.

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• I think I must play how I can, that's all. And if I play my best I'll be happy. It doesn't matter because NHL is the best league in the world and we have great players so whoever the coach puts me with is the best. The coach knows best.

  Alexander Ovechkin

  Player, Thinking, World

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• NHL is the best league in the world and I feel that I should play in the best league in the world. Money's not an issue and you cannot buy happiness.

  Alexander Ovechkin

  World

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I'm process-orientated, and people say that about the details. But I love the players. My No. 1 job is to make them better men. My No. 2 job is to make them better at hockey, and I never confuse that. The best people I've ever been around in my life never let me get away with anything - ever. You can have all the details in the world, but if you can't communicate with people and find a way to help them help themselves, you have no chance in this league. To me, that's what the profession is about: getting guys to believe in themselves and each other.

  Mike Babcock

  Believe, Hockey, Player

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I think I know a lot of fake two-faced Ivy League liberals, and I am constantly testing them to see if their liberalism is a conversational liberalism, one that depends solely on what will fly at a party. And I can tell when stuff like this happens, I swear to God, they are tomorrow's conservatives.

  Karan Mahajan

  Party, Thinking, Fake

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Someone wrote in the New York Times recently that if Donald Trump was allowed to go through with his plans, he'd become one of history's major human rights violators and ethnic cleansers, just below the Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin league. But people don't care. Trump goes on Jimmy Fallon's show and that spineless puff of a talk show host praises Trump for being such an "off the cuff" talker and providing "fresh air." Fresh air! What's fresh about racism? it comes out of the darkest dankest rottenest human cellar!

  Francisco Goldman

  Racism, People, Care

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I fall in love with certain stories. Those stories tend to be connected to my life some way - for instance, with my first book I was writing about the experience of coaching Little League in the Chicago inner city. But the common thread tends to be exploring some kind of mystery. Simple questions that spiral deeper.

  Daniel Coyle

  Falling In Love, Book, Writing

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Any professional league that goes on strike right now - that's just suicide.

  Charles Barkley

  Suicide, Goes On, Strikes

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• Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.

  Erma Bombeck

  Mom, Mother, White

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• Let peace, descending from her native heaven, bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations; and plenty, in league with commerce, scatter blessings from her copious hand!

  Daniel Boone

  Spring, Blessing, Hands

  Daniel Boone, Francis Lister Hawks (1996). “Daniel Boone: His Own Story”, p.25, Applewood Books

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• I've always been privileged to play for Coach Belichick, who I've always said is the best coach in the history of the league.

  Tom Brady

  Play, Best Coaches, Said

  "Patriots Today - Tom Brady speaks after practice". The Patriots Interview, www.patriots.com. July 31, 2010.

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• And the annual meetings of the League's Assembly are in effect official peace congresses binding on the participating states to an extent that most statesmen a quarter of a century ago would have regarded as utopian.

  Hjalmar Branting

  Assembly, Century, States

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• One day, one of my dreams is to someday get to do Nemo in '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.'

  Nicolas Cage

  Dream, Sea, One Day

  "Nicolas Cage GHOST RIDER SPIRIT OF VENGEANCE On-Set Interview". Group interview, collider.com. January 5, 2012.

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• These ivy league students are in the upper echelon of the college boards and had great opportunity in front of them regardless of where they go to college. Its in their very nature and it is something they expect.

  Michael N. Castle

  Opportunity, College, Ivy

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• Stood off and on during the night, determining not to come to anchor till morning, fearing to meet with shoals; continued our course in the morning; and as the island was found to be six or seven leagues distant, and the tide was against us, it was noon when we arrived there.

  Christopher Columbus

  Morning, Night, Islands

  Christopher Columbus, Bartolomé de las Casas (1827). “Personal Narrative of the First Voyage of Columbus to America: From a Manuscript Recently Discovered in Spain”, p.41

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• Sailed this day nineteen leagues, and determined to count less than the true number, that the crew might not be dismayed if the voyage should prove long.

  Christopher Columbus

  Journey, Numbers, Long

  Christopher Columbus, Bartolomé de las Casas (1827). “Personal Narrative of the First Voyage of Columbus to America: From a Manuscript Recently Discovered in Spain”, p.17

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• I do feel a lot of times like I'm out of my league with my kids in terms of what my responsibility is.

  Louis C. K.

  Kids, Responsibility, Term

  "Questions for Louis C.K". Interview with Jessica Grose, www.slate.com. June 17, 2011.

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• We see government's mission as fostering and enabling the important realms - our businesses, service clubs, Little Leagues, churches - to flourish.

  Mitch Daniels

  Government, Important, Church

  Keynote Speech to the Conservative Political Action Committee, delivered 11 February 2011, Ronald Reagan Centennial Dinner, Washington, D.C.

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