League Quotes

I was always a big Justice League fan. I always loved Batman, Superman - I have a weird Martian Manhunter fixation.

There's a lot more to playing in the big leagues in New York than just the baseball part.

My real-life athletic career was not very much. I played Little League baseball.

I thought it was pathetic: The league just decided that Grant Hill would go right to the top.

I feel like I'm the best point guard in the league.

You just get better with age. You learn yourself and the league. I'm starting to understand more about hitting every year.

If you write in the paper 'Lee stinks,' that's not going to affect me. I'll just laugh. And if you write 'Derrek Lee is the best player in the league,' that won't affect me either. I'll laugh.

I'm going to cut taxes big league, and you're going to raise taxes big league, end of story.

Plants and factories are already starting to move back into the United States, and big league Ford, General Motors, so many of them.

I want to be a traveling circus in that big-league uniform, like everybody else.

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.

Hey, I'm just looking for an excuse to retire so I can play summer league baseball, go coach my nephews, play pickup basketball. I've always had that ability to move on to the next thing.

I was very close to playing at an Ivy League School. The Division I schools, when a coach would come visit all he would talk about was my size.

He makes it look easy. You wish there was another league he could get called up to.

I like playing against LeBron more than anybody else in the league. He brings out the best in me, and I bring out the best in him.

I think this is where we're trying to get to eventually as a league too hopefully. To have an opportunity to represent and be a leader of a global brand, for me, it was a great decision.

Everybody was calling. I think everybody called every player in the league. Thats history right there.

There was nothing to keep him (Cal Ripken, Jr.) from being a star in the Major Leagues. That was inevitable.

Every writer has his favorite coterie of enemies: Mine is the East Coast literati -- those prep school playmates and their Ivy League colleagues.

And you learn [how to win] starting in the minor leagues, by winning day in and day out.

Last year I gave seventy-four phone hours to soliciting baked goods for the Bake-A-Rama. I was named Top Call Girl by the League.

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

I was convinced before the game that we had a very good chance but today was what you would call in Germany a blackout.

The Champions League is a big ambition and all the footballers want to play in it. It is a very important competition.

But to be fair, Arsenal are a quality side. They're not where they are by chance - they are not top of the league and unbeaten because they are a bad team.

Whether you're playing in the minor leagues or major-league divisions, wherever you are, it's always nice to be recognized as an All-Star.

As an English player you are lifted when the crowd gets behind you. The atmosphere over here can be unsettling for the Australian players and I hope all our fans get behind us.

I get the fantasy league comment a couple of times a series ... that's pretty cool. They might be rooting for the other team, but if I do well it helps them out. It's kind of cool.

I am involved in minor league baseball. I go around the country speaking to troubled youths, trying to help them understand that whatever path they choose, they'll need to really pay attention to it.

After returning from his stint in the minors made reference to the movie Slapshot with: I'm happy to be back. It was never my aspiration as a kid to play in the Federal league.

It was dreadful, I had pain. It was like someone was trying to put pressure up there.

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

When you're cooking in the premier league of restaurants, when things go down, it has to be sorted immediately.

I've seen teams spend £150 million and get nowhere near the Champions League. It has taken Manchester City a billion to get there. There are no guarantees.

I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.

I am more than happy at Blackpool and I am afraid the chairman will need a hell of a tub of cream to get rid of me - I'm like a bad rash and not easily curable.

The dietician is going to get rid of that when he comes in. Although, first, we've got to get a dietician.

Well Terry, can you tell us where you are in the league, how far are you ahead of the second team?

[Ecstasy] had its flaws, but again it was shot on a low budget, and they did well. It's not in the same league as Filth.

Orcs, and talking trees, and leagues of grass, and galloping riders, and glittering caves, and white towers and golden halls, and battles, and tall ships sailing, all these passed before Sam's mind.

They ought to create a new league for that guy.

I played in a basketball league until I was 40 years old. I played every Monday night and the guys would say, "You take him out, and you'll see us afterwards."

Hopefully, I can put the pictures they take of me up on my Facebook.

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.

I want to be the top player in the league, and I want to bring my game to another level. I want to play against the opposition's best players-and I want to beat them.

Maybe in the minor leagues. With my velocity, they would pick it up and say, 'Hey, you dropped something.'

There's players like myself in the league who deserve to make the All-Star team and aren't given a chance. I've put up numbers, as good if not better than players that are making the team.

I've been fortunate and blessed to further my career in the Arena Football League, and I've had a good time doing it.

There aren't many millionaires who bowl over 100. Why not? Because they left the bowling league behind to build their fortunes.

I've face more than 35 major leaguers, and only two have ever made contact against me.