The League Quotes

I never forgot the four years I spent with the Phillies, my September call-ups and my big league Spring Trainings. I never forgot that.

At my growing years of 18 to 21 years old in the Minor Leagues, I dreamed of being a Philadelphia Phillie.

If you go around the league, anybody with the last name 'vich' is a great shooter. Radmanovic, Vujacic... all those 'iches.

I'd rather play in the major leagues and have some bad games than play consistently good ball in the minors.

AFC Wimbledon in the League! Talk about the ashes rising from the flames.

The way of success is not run with seven league boots but step by step, little by little, bit by bit ... with no exceptions allowed.

I can tell you first-hand from my experiences with Sacramento, the league does try to honor the fan bases it has, and encourage teams to stay in their home markets.

It's a very strange league, the Championship, because on any given match day, any team can beat any other team.

Alan Schwarz of the New York Times calls up the NFL to get a response, and what he gets from Greg Aiello, the league spokesman, is more denials. They are now denying their own study.

Major League Baseball has prostate awareness for two weeks leading up to Father's Day, and I want to get involved in that.

This league is getting big. We have way more 300-pound guys than ever before. That's not to say all the people in athletics who have died are 300-pound guys. There are so many different reasons.

My closest friends in the league are Dirk Nowitzki and Rex Chapman. Although I think Michael Finley and I will be friends forever.

I'm just trying to get as good as I can get, I am still young but there is always room to learn so I spend a lot of time watching players in other leagues to get better.

I've seen the slip a few times. I don't have to watch something like that to go through the pain again and again and again.

As club captain all I want to do is help us get back up the table and into the Champions League.

I just wanted to jump into the stands and start celebrating with those wonderful fans. (on reaching the Champions League final)

We need to go there and make sure we bring that cup home. and if we do succeed, then we'll dedicate it to the fans that have waited so patiently since 1984. (on the Champions League)

Earlier on in the season I'd have been very surprised to think we could win this competition because there were some fantastic teams in it. (on the Champions League)

The ideal set up would be to own an NBA team, a D-League team, and a WNBA team.

I lost the good stuff on my fastball. I had to come up with something to keep me in the league. The knuckler rescued me then.

I thought you could play ... You've got nothing. Where's the big hair? I brought my scissors today so I could cut the hair. You've got nothing.

The NHL is the best league in the world, but it's a grind. You sometimes forget, especially if you are losing, or missing the playoffs ... how fun this game can be.

They need to show a bit more gut.

The National Football league is on the wrong side of history.

When you get to the big leagues, you need to take potential and turn it into performance. You want to be the guy who got the most out of his ability, not the guy who never fulfilled his potential.

I don't deal in the world of fair. The NFL is the no fair league and I experienced that as much as anybody.

Honestly I feel comfortable starting and relieving. I've done both a lot. I really don't have a preference except which one gets me to the big leagues and allows me to excel the most.

When we move the ball, we're one of the best teams in the league.

I became exclusively an American League fan when they instituted the DH rule, and will remain so until the National League moves out of the dark ages.

Have never been a minor league fan.

Tolerance to my mind has been greatly overrated . . . . I take as much pleasure in detesting the good brothers and sisters of the [Anti-Saloon] League as they have in hating me.

I predict that many teams will go out of business and the size of the leagues will be greatly reduced.

Its like a Contiki tour, getting on and off buses, getting pissed.

I want to - we're working toward Justice League, and I really want to create the - part of the thing I really want to create is the possibility of a world where they could exist together.

Where have all the Fembots gone?

You can't look at someone and tell what they've been through. The scars that hurt the most are never visible on the surface.~Caillen, page 243.

Trying to live up to yourself is the most trying thing.

But Little League can be a great experience for kids, as long as they want to play--and don't play to bring their parents glory.

In league with being graced by greatness, prepare to be greeted, by all that is beneath you.

Hope is the opiate of the frail.

The IPL, involving the socialist principle of a salary cap and the protectionist mechanism of quotas, is not perhaps the best example of a market left flourishingly to its own devices and dynamics.

Far from marking the end of nationalism, the IPL is the ultimate triumph of that principle: a global tournament in which the same nation always wins.

The assumption now is that the interests of the brand and of the game overlap to the degree that cricket need hardly be mentioned.