League Quotes - Page 6

• Some times you lose more than you win. It's about handling losses and trying to turn them into positives. You get out into the big leagues and there's a period of adjustment to be made. You've got to handle it.

  Lindsay Davenport

  Loss, Winning, Trying

  "Laura Robson has attitude to excel at Wimbledon says Lindsay Davenport" by Kevin Mitchell, www.theguardian.com. June 17, 2010.

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• My father was a Little League dictator. That really affected me, his control-freakery, his impunity, his arbitrary unreasonable power.

  Junot Diaz

  Father, Arbitrary, Littles

  Interview with Meghan O'Rourke, www.slate.com. April 8, 2008.

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• I learned how to take other people's mechanisms of promoting their stuff through me as opposed to promoting my own stuff, as far as getting Snoop DeVilles, SnoopDeGrills, Snoop Doggy Dogg biscuits, Snoop Dogg record label, Snoop Dogg bubble gum, Snoop Youth Football League.

  Snoop Dogg

  Football, People, Labels

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In sixth grade, my basketball team made it to the league championships. In double overtime, with three seconds left, I rebounded the ball and passed it - to the wrong team! They scored at the buzzer and we lost the game. To this day, I still have nightmares!

  Zac Efron

  Inspirational, Basketball, Team

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• At age 31, in 1981, I was voted the best player in basketball, and the most valuable player in the league.

  Julius Erving

  Motivational, Basketball, Player

  "The Wondrous Dr. J". The Academy of Achievement Interview in Las Vegas, Nevada, www.achievement.org. June 26, 1992.

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• I'm just like any person who is coaching in this league, I'm just looking for an opportunity, that's all.

  Patrick Ewing

  Opportunity, Coaching, Persons

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• Growing up, I looked up to major league baseball players, and now these young women have amazing, incredible women all across the board, from swimming to gymnastics to softball to basketball.

  Jennie Finch

  Inspirational, Basketball, Softball

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• Most political journalists come to Washington because they're snappy writers, big thinkers, or news breakers. Me? My ticket to the big leagues had little to do with talent. It was mostly about the governor I was covering, Bill Clinton.

  Ron Fournier

  Political, Covering, News

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• The right wing has had a radio apparatus for years and years, so they've had minor leagues - they've had local rightwing guys who've become national rightwing guys, and who build slowly, and that's how it goes. We haven't had that. It isn't like we have a farm team.

  Al Franken

  Team, Years, Wings

  Interview with Stephen Thompson, progressive.org. July 2, 2009.

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• To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.

  A. Bartlett Giamatti

  Yale, Management, Form

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• Everybody in the minor leagues - if you're a player, an announcer, whatever - wants to be in the big leagues.

  Ernie Harwell

  Player, Want, Bigs

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• I wish I could play little league now. I'd be way better than before.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Play

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• This is the thing you dream about when you're a kid, even before getting into the league.

  Allen Iverson

  Basketball, Dream, Kids

  Interview, www.insidehoops.com. February 14, 2004.

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• Athletes at all ages are bigger and stronger than ever before. And they are being encouraged - sometimes even incentivized, as we recently learned was the case on at least one National Football League team - to play to injure.

  Naveen Jain

  Football, Team, Athlete

  "Keeping Football Exciting While Reducing the Threat of Traumatic Head Injuries" by Naveen Jain, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 27, 2012.

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• I love when violent, dangerous art is done by people who are not violent and dangerous. I love that when George Romero was making 'Dawn of the Dead,' he was coaching his son's little league team.

  Penn Jillette

  Art, Team, Son

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I met wonderful people playing in the NBA. Whether it is the officials, the scorekeepers, all the people who work for the NBA, not just for the Lakers, but I'm talking about just for the league itself.

  Magic Johnson

  Talking, Nba, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It's hard to say if the NBA is hurt by the influx of younger players, but it's definitely impacted the league.

  Michael Jordan

  Hurt, Player, Nba

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• Do I need my number retired throughout the course of the league to acknowledge what I've done? No.

  Michael Jordan

  Numbers, Needs, Done

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• As the National Football League and other pro sports increasingly reckon with the early dementia, mental health issues, suicides and even criminal behavior of former players, the risk of what's known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), is becoming clear.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Sports, Football, Suicide

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• The families of many athletes - incensed at the sports leagues and hoping to make games safer overall - are increasingly making the brains of players who die prematurely and suspiciously available for study. Some athletes are even making the bequest themselves.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Sports, Athlete, Player

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• When I was growing up, there weren't any Little Leagues in the city. Parents worked all the time. They didn't have time to take their kids out to play baseball and football.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Sports, Baseball, Football

  American Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• Major league baseball has asked its players to stop tossing baseballs into the stands during games, because they say fans fight over them and they get hurt. In fact, the Florida Marlins said that's why they never hit any home runs. It's a safety issue.

  Jay Leno

  Baseball, Running, Hurt

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• Wouldn't it be great if our national news media had standards as high as the National Football League's?

  Rush Limbaugh

  Football, Media, News

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• I'm going to be honest, playing in D-League games is tough.

  Jeremy Lin

  Games, Tough, Honest

  "Rocket Man" by Will Leitch, www.gq.com. October 16, 2012.

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• My first ball I ever got from a big-league player I actually got to purchase in Dodger Stadium in a silent auction, was Reggie Jackson.

  Pedro Martinez

  Player, Auctions, Balls

  "Pedro Martinez slams Don Zimmer again for 2003 bout, Zim admits fault". Interview with Adam Rubin, www.nydailynews.com. October 29, 2009.

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