The League Quotes

When you're a first-round pick and you get to the big leagues at 22, there's almost a sense that you've got to mature.

I would love to see as many of the black players as possible in today's Major League Baseball make every effort to go to the Negro Leagues Museum and get a first-hand view of how it all started.

I'm ambitious, I want to play in the Champions League, and that's the aim with Tottenham - to start qualifying for the Champions League on a consistent basis.

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

I need to be out earning. I can make more in two hours at a card show than I did [as a minor-league manager] all year.

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

If I were playing against Corey Perry, I’d probably want to hurt him in some painful and permanent way. And I think most of the rest of the league feels the same way.

The Spanish league is fantastic, but it has not the great passion the English Premiership has got.

I had to wait nine days for a letter that said a lot of very silly things.

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

The only dream I've ever had is to become a major league baseball player.

I never was brought into the league thinking as far as, you know, statistics, things like that. We were really brought into the league in a team concept. Everything was focused around winning.

I've never seen anything like it since. Some of the Canada Cups came close, but by then a lot of European players came and played in our league so we were more familiar with them.

The best example of how impossible it will be for Major League Baseball to crack down on steroids is the fact that baseball and the media are still talking about the problem as "steroids.

When real independence comes to India, the Congress and the League will be nowhere unless they represent the real opinion of the country.

Remy Cabella, I think he deserves something else than Newcastle. I wouldn't go there. You must get bored s***less in Newcastle.

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

A lot of players know I've been around 13 years and this is my second lockout. I got a lot of respect. I know what's going on both for the league and the union.

I would love to see Flip get back into the league. I think he can definitely still coach in this league. I think he will be in this league quicker than sooner.

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.

If the Ivy League was the breeding ground for the elites of the American Century, Stanford is the farm system for Silicon Valley.

Brooks Robinson belongs in a higher league.

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

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

Brendan's chihuahua doesn't do that. During the week it sleeps, eats and trains a little bit. So I have to say his chihuahua is a privileged one.

He's a specialist in failure.

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.

How on earth Traore gets into this team is beyond me. And he's a Champions League winner? Gimme a break.

I'm happy with the Arena Football League right now. I'm happy in Denver.

The Arena League is the best thing that could have happened to me because I get to run the whole process. I'm seeing not only the football side but the business side

The world is large when its weary leagues two loving hearts divide; But the world is small when your enemy is loose on the other side.

I'm from West Virginia. If you didn't know what was happening in NASCAR, you were on the outside. NASCAR is a big league sport, but it's still also country and redneck.

Everyone is more focused on presenting the best that the league has to offer, rather than the worst.

I wanted to be a part of something special and contributing to the launch of a new league was very exciting to me.

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.

I came in the league as not a shooter, not a scorer. My game was to play defense and make my teammates better. The most important stat to me was that left column - winning. Nothing else matters.

I might be in a bit of a Skoda garage rather than a Mercedes garage, but I am telling you some old bangers don't half polish up great.

As long as the problem of world reconstruction remains the center of interest for all nations, blocs having similar attitudes will form and operate even within the League itself.

Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.

I'm 49, I've had a brain haemorrhage and a triple bypass and I could still go out and play a reasonable game of rugby union. But I wouldn't last 30 seconds in rugby league.

It's the price on the ticket and emphasizes the pressure every manager is under weather you are at the top or bottom of the league.

Russel Westbrook is a guy that impacts the game maybe like no other player in this league.

I believe myself to be a worthwhile and inventive performer in my own right. But I'm not in a league with Lenny [Bruce], certainly not in terms of social commentary.

If the Cincinnati Reds were really the first major league baseball team, who did they play?

Not many people get to the major leagues and succeed right away. There are some struggles. Everyone seems to struggle.

Ryan Giggs will go down as the most successful British footballer of all time and I cannot see anyone ever overtaking him. He's on the brink of his 13th league title, after all.

I would love to get back to the big leagues as a coach, possibly a manager. I would love that opportunity.

That's what every young kid thinks about when they first put on a uniform - is to play in the Major League and then, ultimately, play in a World Series. To me, that was the ultimate, winning in '86.

I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business.

Trevino is in a league by himself. We don't even count him. We figure when you come in second, you're a winner.