The League Quotes

Crusaders shouldn't have been allowed in from the start.

She'll be evaluated like any other Double-A umpire. Major League Baseball has never attempted to influence our decision

I guess that's what Little League is all about -- trying.

And then when I went to stay in '68, I can honestly say that I was not focused on my career and on what it took to be a major league pitcher and to be a starting pitcher.

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?" .

Major League Baseball is the best league in the world, full of capable hitters up and down every single lineup.

Always wanted to be a Major League player. Loved baseball. Followed it. Loved to play. Plus, I could always hit.

My major league debut came at old Busch Stadium on Grand Avenue in St. Louis against the Pittsburgh Pirates.

He's the best centre in the game I think, definitely the best in the Super League by far.

All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League.

It's not like I had to throw the football and deal with that as well. It was more disheartening, to be honest with you, just to kind of see how the National Football League really is.

It's important that top clubs don't lose sight of the fact that it's the English Premier League and English players should be involved.

I said to NFL spokesman Greg Aiello, 'You realize that's the first time anybody associated with the league has made that connection?' And I remember, he was a litttle... annoyed. He was annoyed.

Congressmen are not evil people, they're mostly sort of seismographs with antennae; they're waiting - they're more worried about losing their jobs than Assistant Deans of Men in the Ivy League.

Struck in the wet mire Four thousand leagues from the ninth buried city I thought of Troy, what we had built her for.

True love knows no league.

As ships becalmed at eve, that lay With canvas drooping, side by side, Two towers of sail, at dawn of day Are scarce, long leagues apart, descried.

I looked up to my father when I was 7 and 8. I believed it was my calling to be in the big leagues. I'd been raised by a family that always told me I could do anything I wanted.

We play a tough game. If people want to whinge, they can go to a different sport. It's part of the game, it's what I love about it . . . and I'd hate to see it go.

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

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

Here you would know, and enjoy, what prosperity will way of Washington. For a thousand leagues have nearly the same effect with a thousand years.

Well, I wanted to play twenty years in the major leagues. I never made it twenty though. I played nineteen.

To me the footballs are approved by the league and game officials pregame and we play with what's out there. That's the only way that I have ever thought about that.

Steve Nash is the most unathletic player in the league.

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.

I can categorically tell you that Mario Balotelli will not be at Liverpool.

I don't know if it can happen, but apparently I might get divorced before I get married.

The minor leagues were great. When you first sign, that is your big leagues.

I couldn't care less about the leader board. A lot of guys have led the league in something in April and couldn't be found at the end of the season.

My first year in the big leagues, I made $17,000. It was easy to go out and get another $17,000 relief pitcher. I never worried about innings or pitches. I just pitched.

The player had almost as much fun as the parent and coaches. This league is well worth the time the professionals put into it. I would encourage any professional to host a team.

Any professional league that goes on strike right now - that's just suicide.

I did not threaten anybody in any moment and even less with a brick.

Just come in there and stand before a live crowd, thousands of people at an Ivy League School, like Eleanor Roosevelt said, always do what you're afraid to do.

I really have never been nervous in the big leagues.

Bloody Jackson - he can land it on a 20 cent piece. Trouble is, it's usually in a bloke's pocket in the grandstand.

I've always dreamed to win the Champions League with Real Madrid and we are only one step away to win it

I was such a screwup when I got to the big leagues. I was a total idiot.

We had started the tour hoping to make about 200 pounds each as the All Blacks (All Golds) had done the previous year. We got nothing and were lucky to get home!

We'll probably only consider a handful of individuals. We'll bring up people who can accumulate either innings or at-bats, so we can hopefully gauge where they stand as a prospective Major Leaguer.

I was playing little league baseball when Bruce Jenner was winning the gold but I don't think I was really paying attention at that time.

They're (California Angels) like the American League All-Star team, and that's their problem, the American League All-Star team always loses.

When I came over here (the National League), I always heard it was a stronger league, with amphetamines all over the clubhouse, but all I found was Michelob Dry.

To get the adrenaline going before the game for a big league baseball game was pretty special.

Since I got to the big leagues, there's been a whole lot of Direct-TV sold in Jamestown. People like to keep up with the local boy.

I think the Canadian Football League is a great league, but it's not the NFL, and I'm not Jerry Rice.

Matt Cooke may be the worst fighter in the history of the National Hockey League.

I reread "Ball Four" by Jim Bouton, the father of all sports books. Aside from that, and books like "Out of Their League" by Dave Meggyesy, sports books generally pull their punches.

Tim Tebow may be back in the NFL with the Philadelphia Eagles. As you remember, he was thrown out of the league when he landed his gyrocopter on the White House lawn.