The League Quotes

In 1962 I was named Minor League Player of the Year. It was my second season in the bigs.

Sooner or later you learn that you belong in the big leagues, and that makes you calm down

When I've got nothing better to do, I look down the league table to see how Everton are getting along.

Some kids dream of joining the circus, others of becoming a major league baseball player. I have been doubly blessed. As a member of the New York Yankees, I have gotten to do both.

Dear Mr. Kuhn, After twelve years in the major leagues, I do not feel that I am a piece of property to be bought and sold irrespective of my wishes

The Champions League is the competition everyone wants to be in.

I love my country and I love my league.

I'm looking forward to meeting my new team-mates and to be playing for Arsenal in the Premier League and Champions League. I will give my best to Arsenal and want to make all the supporters happy.

The League of Nations is the greatest humbug in history. They cannot even protect a little nation like Armenia. They do nothing but pass useless resolutions.

Let peace, descending from her native heaven, bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations; and plenty, in league with commerce, scatter blessings from her copious hand!

I just want to wear my heart on my sleeve.

It certainly is a very difficult group,. We're still bleeding after the Champions League final and want our revenge.

If anyone wants to know why three kids in one family made it to the big leagues they just had to know how we helped each other and how much we practiced back then. We did it every minute we could.

Youngsters of Little League can survive undercoaching a lot better than overcoaching.

You can say that strikers are very much like postmen: they have to get in and out as quick as they can before the dog starts to have a go.

When you look at where team sports are going, the National Football League is turning into organized warfare.

When I'm going against guys like Kevin Durant - one of the best leading scorers in the league - it pushes you to want to get better, seeing how hard he works.

Although they can do it all the time, you know, they're far better than me, on a musically, on a theoretical music level. You know, they're out of my league.

It's an exciting place to go, really. The rain, the drizzle, the cold, the depressing people, the smokes in the bath ... I don't know of anyone who has been to Blackpool and enjoyed it.

I know I probably never will win the league MVP or passing title. That is not why I play the game. I try to win football games and championships.

For me, Marouane Fellaini has been one of the best midfielders in the Premier League over the last few seasons. If he continues to improve at United, we’ll have a really good player on our hands.

Being there every week for my teammates is really important to me. It's about accountability. I hear stuff about the 'toughest quarterback in the league' and all that; what's that mean?

This does not --ing slip now.

I think Little League is wonderful. It keeps the kids out of the house.

It seems the baseball player of today will not be satisfied until he plays two weeks in the big league and is able to retire at twenty-two.

Kids should practice autographing baseballs. This is a skill that's often overlooked in Little League.

Feeling is to lose a major league game.

I played on the 2001 team, the team that won the most games in the history of Major League Baseball and also I played on one of the worst teams of Major League Baseball.

There was a spell in the second half when I took my heart off my sleeve and put it in my mouth.

My biggest problem in the big leagues is that I can't figure out how to spend forty-three dollars in meal money.

Encouragement is the most important thing in the world for young people, rather than league tables, which demoralise everyone.

Academia is a rarified culture, especially an Ivy League academic background.

Who will win the League? It's a toss of a coin between three of them.

I must say that the tasks of the youth in general, and of the Young Communist Leagues and all other organisations in particular, might be summed up in a single word: learn.

That's Steve Howey's third-ever League goal and he's never scored more than two in a season before.

When I first got into the league, I tried to fit in. Now I don't care.

I have great confidence in Rene and high expectations for our squad to respond.

I have not seen the National League enough to know.

I'm not in the big leagues just because I'm cute.

And as a football coach in the National Football League, I know for sure that it's going to end someday.

To win the Champions League with Porto, you have to be tactically acute

I love this game, I love this sport, I love this league. Why don't I get my own team? (English Premiership football club)

The threshold by the Commission on Presidential Debates. In the words of the League of Women Voters, they are a fraud being perpetrated on the American public.

[The NBA] used to be a small band of basketball groupies. Now there are a lot more corporate-type people working in the league.

I'll take account of things at the end of the season. Now I'm expecting a good finish to the league season.

Shut your noise, you old c***!

A very good side playing at the sort of level we are aspiring to.

Manchester United is still in my heart. Disappointed they didn't win the title but they are still the kings of Premier League.

When the Champions League is at stake, ... you do everything you can, whether it's called gamesmanship or cheating, to put the opposition off.

Come and see my coaching certificates - they're called the European Cup and league championships.