League Quotes - page 3

None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns - bent down and helped us pick up our boots. (Thurgood Marshall)
I'm currently single, so I want to have fun! As for what guys need to do to date out of their league, it's all about the swagger. If you have confidence, you can get pretty much any girl. View quote
Krysten Ritter
All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League. View quote
A. Bartlett Giamatti
I can only guess that, for guys in their 30s and 40s who watched me play, they understood that the score never mattered and my paycheck never mattered (in relation) to how I played. I played with Little League enthusiasm and professional flair. That's what fans are really looking for. View quote
Andy Van Slyke
Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor. View quote
Abe Lemons
In 1962 I was named Minor League Player of the Year. It was my second season in the bigs. View quote
Bob Uecker
Say this for big league baseball - it is beyond any question the greatest conversation piece ever invented in America. View quote
Bruce Catton
I don't want to be a Major League coach. View quote
Barry Bonds
I've been in the league 12 years. To sit on the bench and complain about the way things were, that doesn't get anything done. I don't know. I'm playing for a championship and trying to make the playoffs. My effort has never changed. View quote
Chris Webber
I did the Justice League thing the wrong way. I read too much on the Internet. You cant do that. The Internet is the devil. Or the Internet is not the devil - the comment boards are the devil. View quote
D. J. Cotrona
I sort of kept my hand in writing and went to work for the Sierra Club in '52, walked the plank there in '69, founded Friends of the Earth and the League of Conservation Voters after that. (David R. Brower)
No doubt, the White House thinks the American people know Obama's story. But since the Inauguration, we've seen only the president's present: his perfect family, his Ivy League elegance, his effortless mastery of complex issues. We never see him sweat. And we forget that he ever had to struggle. View quote
Dee Dee Myers
For some students, school is the only place where they get a hot meal and a warm hug. Teachers are sometimes the only ones who tell our children they can go from an Indian reservation to the Ivy League, from the home of a struggling single mom to the White House. View quote
Denise Juneau
I'm not so mean. I wouldn't ever go out to hurt anybody deliberately - unless it was, you know, important, like a league game or something. View quote
Dick Butkus
Hey, I'm just looking for an excuse to retire so I can play summer league baseball, go coach my nephews, play pickup basketball. I've always had that ability to move on to the next thing. View quote
Doug Flutie
I feel so fortunate, so honored, to have played this game that I love for so long, with so many great players, and in front of so many wonderful fans. I fulfilled a childhood dream the first time I stepped on an NFL field, and the league did not let me down one time. View quote
Drew Bledsoe
I love watching American League games, you know what I mean? View quote
Dusty Baker
I think the Canadian Football League is a great league, but it's not the NFL, and I'm not Jerry Rice. View quote
Darren Flutie
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. View quote
Ferguson Jenkins
Only 38 per cent of players in the Premier League are English; that is a damning statistic. Soon, the England manager will have to go scouting for players in the Championship - and when I say 'soon' I mean the next four or five years, perhaps even for the next World Cup. View quote
Glenn Hoddle
If the Ivy League was the breeding ground for the elites of the American Century, Stanford is the farm system for Silicon Valley. (Ken Auletta)
When I was in college there was a girls' flag football league. The girls were extremely aggressive. View quote
Lynn Swann
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. View quote
Mark Messier
I wouldn't be bothered if we lost every game, as long as we won the league. View quote
Mark Viduka
These ivy league students are in the upper echelon of the college boards and had great opportunity in front of them regardless of where they go to college. Its in their very nature and it is something they expect. View quote
Michael N. Castle