League Quotes - Page 9

• My closest friends in the league are Dirk Nowitzki and Rex Chapman. Although I think Michael Finley and I will be friends forever.

  Steve Nash

  Basketball, Thinking, Forever

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• We had a strong relationship with Walter Brown, and felt that he was the best owner in the league.

  Bob Cousy

  Basketball, Strong, Brown

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• You know when I played, you had me and Kevin (McHale) and some others throughout the league. I think it's good for a fan base because as we all know the majority of the fans are white America. And if you just had a couple of white guys in there, you might get them a little excited.

  Larry Bird

  Basketball, Couple, Thinking

  "Bird: NBA 'a black man's game'", www.espn.com. June 10, 2004.

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• I wouldn't be bothered if we lost every game, as long as we won the league.

  Mark Viduka

  Inspirational, Motivational, Soccer

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• Doesn't know much, but leads the league in nostril hair.

  Josh Billings

  Sarcastic, Hair, Knows

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• In Phil's case, I was personally thrilled he came back, because I think it's huge for the league. When you think about what he's done and how many championships he's won, there's always drama when he comes back in.

  Gregg Popovich

  Basketball, Drama, Thinking

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• When I came into the league, once a team drafted you, they owned you forever. If they didn't like the clothes you wore, or the car you drove, they could blackball you.

  Oscar Robertson

  Basketball, Team, Clothes

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• Bart Giamatti did not grow up (as he had dreamed) to play second base for the Red Sox. He became a professor at Yale, and then, in time president of the National Baseball League. He never lost his love for the Boston Red Sox. It was as a Red Sox fan, he later realized that human beings are fallen, and that life is filled with disappointment. The path to comprehending Calvinism in modern America, he decided, begins at Fenway Park.

  David Halberstam

  Baseball, Religious, Encouragement

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• I don't know if there's an actors' slow-pitch softball league I could join. My agency has a team, but they say it would be a conflict of interest for the people they rep to play because I could hit a pop-up and they'd have to drop it on purpose.

  Miles Teller

  Softball, Team, Play

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Once in a while, I played second base; once in a while, outfield. But those were just pickup games and softball leagues. So when I bought the Yankees, I tried to stay one pace ahead of the players.

  George Steinbrenner

  Funny, Softball, Player

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• I played Little League and in high school. I played more over the years whenever there was a pick-up game... usually softball.

  Matthew Modine

  Funny, Softball, School

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• True love knows no league.

  Amy Butler Greenfield

  Love, Knows

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• And that's Aston Villa's first league goal since their last one.

  Elton Welsby

  Soccer, Goal, Lasts

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• How do you want to live your life? How do you want to play the game? Do you want to play in the big leagues or in the little leagues, in the majors or the minors? Are you going to play big or play small? It's your choice.

  T. Harv Eker

  Life, Games, Play

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Mar 28, 2013

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• It certainly is a very difficult group,. We're still bleeding after the Champions League final and want our revenge.

  Paolo Maldini

  Revenge, Champions League, Groups

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• You have to believe you're great. You have to have an air about you. My success wasn't because I was a great talent, but because I wanted it more than anybody else. Every minute I step on that field, I want to prove I'm the best player in the league.

  Brett Favre

  Believe, Wrestling, Player

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• And as a football coach in the National Football League, I know for sure that it's going to end someday.

  Tony Dungy

  Leadership, Football, Nfl

  Tony Dungy (2011). “Quiet Strength: The Principles, Practices, and Priorities of a Winning Life”, p.212, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• I'm not a big power-and-strength guy, but I have a lot of balance, and I can take hits and stay on my feet. I control myself real good, shift my weight, and run real low. I do things that people haven't seen some of the running backs in the league do.

  Marshall Faulk

  Football, Running, Real

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• Being there every week for my teammates is really important to me. It's about accountability. I hear stuff about the 'toughest quarterback in the league' and all that; what's that mean?

  Peyton Manning

  Football, Mean, Nfl

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• All day I have been tossed and whirled in a preposterous happiness; was it an elf in the blood? Or a bird in the brain? Or even part of the cloudily crested, fifty-league-long, loud, uplifted wave of a journeying angels transit over and through my heart?

  C. S. Lewis

  Uplifting, Angel, Heart

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “Poems”, p.44, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.

  Joseph Addison

  Friendship, Vices, World

  Joseph Addison (1854). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.201

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• Speed is what makes the Premiership exciting. The millions who would have watched Manchester United and Chelsea would have seen a non-stop game in which the pace was electric even though the first half was a non-event. You could see a better technical game in Spain but for sheer frenetic movement there is nothing that comes close... Pace is more critical in the Premiership than in any other major league and if you don't have pace, you have to compensate with power or ability in the air and since Shevchenko has no power and is not particularly good in the air, he is in trouble.

  Alan Hansen

  Soccer, Football, Air

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• United have spent all season commemorating the 50th anniversary of Busby's decision to defy the Football League and take the club on a tragic and triumphant journey into Europe, but no orchestrated event could conjure the celebrations ignited by last night's outstanding obliteration of Roma or deliver a more fitting tribute.

  Andy Hunter

  Soccer, Football, Night

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• On Saturday morning, one of the two teams still unbeaten in the Premiership occupied a modest seventh place. It is an illustration of the relentless pace being set at the top of the league in which every stumble is a serious fall and draws usually constitute two dropped points.

  Pete Gill

  Soccer, Football, Morning

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• It is a certainty that Keegan would not have agreed to return unless Mike Ashley had committed to sanctioning a mammoth spending spree. The downside, which Keegan will soon discover, is the law of diminishing returns in a league that is now the richest in the world. The type of multi-million-pound investment that bankrolled the first Newcastle revival under Keegan is now two-a-penny. Buying success just isn't as easy as it used to be. The Premiership's paradox is that the more money there is, the more the art of management gains in value.

  Pete Gill

  Soccer, Football, Art

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