Major League Quotes - Page 2

• Austin, Texas, and Columbus, Ohio, are the two toughest communities in which you have to put together a winning football team. They are both big metropolitan areas without professional football and major league baseball to sidetrack them.

  Brent Musburger

  Baseball, Football, Team

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• Other teams have offered me really big money but my love for Galatasaray is real. I want to play in major leagues and my dream team is Liverpool F.C. As I always mention, Liverpool attracts me because of their tradition. In Europe, I am a Liverpool supporter, so if I go to play in Europe, I would like to play for them.

  Arda Turan

  Dream, Real, Team

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• Major League Baseball should retire Roberto Clemente's number, just like they did Jackie Robinson's.

  Carlos Beltran

  Baseball, Numbers, League

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• I was very nervous, excited, and happy to be given the opportunity to even be in the major leagues.

  Bengie Molina

  Opportunity, League, Nervous

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• There's a lot of disrespect in the major leagues. I believe that the disrespect in the major leagues is at a high rate and is really bad for the gam

  Bengie Molina

  Believe, League, Disrespect

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• All in all it's a pretty great day for major league sports. At long last they've decided that gay people are fit to be included in their elite club-one that's already allowed in adulterers, wife-swappers, gamblers, cheaters, rapists, racists and slaughterers of man. Those who've abused spouses, drugs, alcohol, family members and animals. Congratulations, gay athletes. Are you sure you want to hang out with these people?

  Jon Stewart

  Change, Sports, Congratulations

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• My high school coach was Ray O'Conner. He has coached a lot of players that have signed professional contracts, and many of those have gone on to play in the major leagues.

  Robin Yount

  Sports, School, Player

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• I think sometimes Hall of Famers might get labeled as guys who aren't suited for a coaching job or to be back at the Major League level.

  Ryne Sandberg

  Jobs, Thinking, League

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• I enjoyed hitting in the Major Leagues more than in the Minor Leagues. I didn't want to tell anybody it was easier, because I didn't want to sound cocky. But Major League pitchers had better control, and most of them were around the plate.

  Willie McCovey

  Cocky, League, Sound

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• There's Adam Clymer, major league asshole from The New York Times.

  George W. Bush

  New York, Humor, League

  "Gore, Bush Kickoff Labor Day Tours". abcnews.go.com. September 4, 2000.

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• It was always just trying to move to the next limit. I didn't think about making the major leagues - every kid has that dream, I had it, but when I was in Little League I just wanted to make the junior high team. When I was in junior high, I wanted to make the Varsity team.

  Jim Abbott

  Dream, Team, Moving

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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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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• Due to the NFL lockout, I'm excited to be able to follow my childhood dream of playing for a Major League Soccer team.

  Chad Ochocinco

  Soccer, Dream, Team

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• The league, I think, is doing well. It's growing, it's maturing, and it's becoming a better league. 
  (on Major League Soccer)

  Cobi Jones

  Soccer, Thinking, Usa

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• When you - when you become the manager of a major league team, particularly the Dodgers, to me, that's a privilege and an honor. No matter where you go or what you do, you represent that position that you have. And you represent that organization that gave you the opportunity to be doing what you're doing.

  Tommy Lasorda

  Team, Opportunity, Organization

  "Tommy Lasorda Honored for Contributions to Japanese Baseball". "Hannity & Colmes" with Sean Hannity and Alan Colmes, www.foxnews.com. December 3, 2008.

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• One time I was doing a speech to a group of kids, and just before I get there, I see this little kid crying. I found out they just lost a game, and he was the losing pitcher. I went over there, put my arm around him, and said, 'What are you crying for? When major league players lose, they don't cry.'

  Tommy Lasorda

  Kids, Player, Games

  "Q&A: Tommy Lasorda talks food, baseball and motivation, as only Mr. Dodger can". Q&A, www.presstelegram.com. July 15, 2013.

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• Major league baseball players and owners should meet immediately to enact the standards that apply to the minor leagues, and if they don't, I will have to introduce legislation that says professional sports will have minimum standards for testing. I'll give them until January, and then I'll introduce legislation.

  John McCain

  Sports, Baseball, Player

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• I remember I thought I should become a doctor, even though I had no talent for science whatsoever. Then of course, until I was about sixteen, I thought I might have a shot as a major league baseball player. But once I hit my full adolescence I lost all interest in that. I discovered, in rapid succession, books, girls, alcohol and tobacco, and I've never turned back. Those are the four things I'm most interested in.

  Paul Auster

  Girl, Baseball, Book

  "A Connoisseur of Clouds, a Meteorologist of Whims: The Rumpus Interview with Paul Auster". Interview with Juliet Linderman, therumpus.net. November 16, 2009.

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• If you got a hit every third time that you went up to bat in the major leagues, you'd be the greatest hitter of all time. I think my average is a little better than that.

  Brad Williams

  Thinking, Average, League

  "Interview with comedian Brad Williams". Interview with Michelle Tompkins, thecelebritycafe.com. September 1, 2016.

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• I played for nine different teams throughout my 22-year major league career and I loved every moment of every team.

  Goose Gossage

  Team, Years, Careers

  Interview with Chris Yandek, www.cyinterview.com. May 4, 2007.

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• My coaching staff gets to go to the World Series. From a financial perspective that's great for coaches because baseball coaches in the Major League level don't really make that much money. People don't realize that.

  Joe Maddon

  Baseball, Perspective, People

  Source: m.cubs.mlb.com

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• I've always said, "You make a lot of money in Major League Baseball, and it's all guaranteed, so what do you have to lose by going all out?" .

  Prince Fielder

  Baseball, League, Said

  Source: sports-ak.espn.go.com

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• I hope that the biggest change in the game is that people are saying that Major League Baseball owns the next generation. That is what I aspire to, everything we're trying to do is about that, and I hope I have enough time and enough help to get that done.

  Rob Manfred

  Baseball, People, League

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• We used to have an all-Black baseball team, all Black stars and when White folks took Jackie Robinson and brought him into the major league that was the beginning of the crushing of Black baseball teams and leagues.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Crush, Baseball, Team

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• The chance to be a general manager in major-league baseball and for a franchise as storied as this one, probably as storied as the Giants, is great.

  Ned Colletti

  Baseball, League, Giants

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