The League Quotes

On paper we might be the best team in the league. We’ve got great players on this team who accomplished so much. We just couldn’t put it together.

Not too many people know how hard I have worked since I broke my jaw. I have been flogging myself on the training paddock.

We're going to be the best in the league at something. We're deep in anthem singers.

We saw a fair bit of video on them towards the back end of the week and we were licking our lips.

I've always been a goal scorer. Playing both ways is something I wanted to do coming into the league.

Emmitt Smith is in a position, in my opinion, where he should be the highest-paid running back in football. He's a guy who has gone out and led the league in rushing and been productive.

It's going to be tough but I think I was more nervous about playing NRL than I will be playing this match simply because I've got Billy Slater in front of me and there were a lot of expectations.

American League teams don't bunt very often. National League teams bunt a lot.

If I was going to make one rule change, I would bring the DH to the National League.

I was on the computer the other day and typed my name into Google. Everything on there was bad. I hope in a few years there might be something there about me playing football.

I'd play in Afghanistan if they wanted me to!

Everybody's dream is to be in the big leagues, but only one in a million gets here.

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.

After one year in the Texas League, the American League bought the rights to my contract. They optioned me back to the Texas League for the 1970 season.

What a hell of a league this is. Ah hit .387, .408, and .395 the last three years and Ah ain't won nothin' yet!

After I got that hit off Satchel (Paige), I knew I was ready for the big leagues.

Is it just me, or did Tamou go to hug a Kiwi before realising he had just scored for Australia?

I went to New York in 1974, to either try to get a record deal, get into the New York Art Student League, or be a dancer. So that was my plan. Some plan. And I had no money.

When Bobby came into the league he was a rushing defenseman, a goal scorer and a point getter. He just opened the game up to more offence and that's the way the game is played now.

The good quarterbacks in this league, if you're not playing your best, sometimes will win a game for you

The best all-around [running] back in the league is Jamaal Charles. He has the ability to hit a homerun from anywhere.

Whatever path you take, there is a league of bad road.

Man, I've got a Rolls-Royce. Big house. Limo. All those things. This is why every kid's dream is to be a major-league ballplayer.

I'm a great bowler. I was in a couple of leagues as a kid.

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

When I play against someone that's new in the league, I make him respect me. They may have heard about me, but now you get to see me actually in front of you. That drives me.

I remember when I first got into the league, I thought how it would be nice to have a year when you were the best. That means your team is probably winning.

You have to believe in yourself. Belief is one of the biggest things in football. If you believe you can win the Premier League then of course it can happen.

I couldn't believe I hit .342. I hit .333 one month in Triple-A. Otherwise, I hit .279 in the minor leagues. I'm proud of myself.

I took a huge risk leaving baseball, because I was predicted to play in the big leagues. I'm kind of a prototypical second baseman.

We will go back to playing like Manchester United.

I was good at math, math was my thing - but I was not nearly good enough to be an astrophysicist. I was way outta my league. I realized this very quickly.

My dream was to play Major League baseball. I've lived that dream.

It will be a dream come true if I can go there and lift it. (on the Champions League trophy)

I'm just one guy. I can't bring the whole league closer to the fans.

If you can achieve winning a league championship, that, to me, is the full test of the team and management because it is over the full season and you have a lot of problems you have to overcome.

Having played in both competitions over recent years I believe that although standards continue to rise in Super League, the NRL is a better competition.

I came to AS Roma to play in the Champions League

So, who in the media is without sin among us? I am in the media and I am a major league sinner. I don't know anyone except my wife who isn't a big time sinner.

I was playing like a rugby league player with 14 rugby players.

Me and Tricky like playing with each other.

My parents didn't know what to do with me. They got me into Little League Baseball, I played out in right field, cause I stunk.

I'm a Major League 3rd Baseman. If you want to go play in parking lot, I'm suppose to stop the ball.

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

A lot of people think Major League’s called Wild Thing. As they should.

I perform in the major leagues of what I do. It's incredible.

I played maybe one and a half games of Little League. The whole atmosphere of anxious parents and more anxious children was just too much for me.

My husband and Charlie Sheen played Little League together. Theyve always been best friends.

I used to be hyper, throw crazy and not think about what I wanted to do with each pitch. Now I have a better understanding of what it is to be a major league pitcher.

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