League Quotes
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I'd like to think that on a lot of teams, I'd be a No. 1. The thing I do know is that every time I take the mound, in my mind I'm the best pitcher in the league.
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More League Quotes
I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in League with the future.
henrik ibsen— Letter to Georg Brandes (3 January 1882).
The theory that the League and Cup double will never be done in modern times is nonsense. I realize no one has done it for sixty years, but there is a simple explanation for that. No club has been good enough.
— 1957 Attributed, four years before Tottenham Hotspur won both the League Championship and the FA Cup.
I yield to no one in my devotion to this great League of Nations, but not even for this will I destroy that smaller but older League of which my own country was the birthplace, and of which it remains the centre? Beware how you so draw tight the bonds, how you so pile obligation on obligation and sanction on sanction, lest at last you find that you are not living nations but dead states.
— 1927 Speech, League of Nations Assembly, Geneva, 9 Sep.
….in order to confer their lost Nationality upon exiled Jews , the British with the help of the League of Nations began to rehabilitate the old Hebrew country, Palestine, with its long lost children. The Jews had maintained their race, religion, culture and language; and all they wanted was their natural territory to complete their Nationality. The reconstruction of the Hebrew Nation on Palestine is just an affirmation of the fact that Country, Race, Religion, Culture and Language must exist unequivocally together to form the Nation idea.
madhav sadashiv golwalkar— Koenraad Elst (1947). The Saffron Swastika, the notion of Hindu-Fascism. pp. 159-160.
The Premier League is in danger of becoming one of the most boring, but great, leagues in the world.
kevin keegan—
In many if not most cases, Cuban players haven’t been busts so much as they’ve been systematically over-hyped during the signing process, which led to unrealistic expectations around Major League Baseball and in the media. The vast majority of Cuba’s truly elite players have either stayed in Cuba for their entire careers or left Cuba too late to have a meaningful MLB career.
joe kehoskie— On the success rate and perception of Cuban baseball defectors in MLB, from the Miami Herald article "Yoenis Cespedes may be the great unknown for Miami Marlins" by Clark Spencer (12 February 2012)
Baseball people are generally allergic to new ideas; it took years to persuade them to put numbers on uniforms, and it is the hardest thing in the world to get Major League Baseball to change anything—even spikes on a new pair of shoes—but they will eventually...they are bound to.
branch rickey— In 1954.
"The Human League, Someday all music will be made like this!" and it is!
philip oakey— Philip Oakey quoting a newspaper headline from 1980, in UK Channel 4 TV documentry Top 10 Electropop Pioneers (2001)
The tribunal here and your American newspapers talk so much about our sharp Nazi methods, but do you realize that within the past year, since the defeat of Germany, 1 million Germans have been evicted from what was originally German territory and which has now been given to Poland? No League of Nations or other body intervened.
alfred rosenberg— To Leon Goldensohn, June 8, 1946, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004
Early leadership of the Indian National Congress, and its forerunner, the Hindu Mahajana Sabha, was based in Madras and the city had hosted early meetings of these organizations. The high-caste residents of Madras were also prominently represented in the Home Rule League, a Gandhian organization with strong ties to the Theosophical Society, Headquartered on an estate in Adyar, about 9 km south of the city’s urban core.
— D. Sadasivan in “The Growth of Public opinion in Madras Presdiency”, quoted in, p.220
When Dudeness is forgotten, League bylaws and rules arise; Then political advocacy and pornography are joined, And standards fall regrettably.
— Ch. 18 : Losing the Train of Thought
Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.
yogi berra
A good cigar is like a beautiful chick with a great body who also knows the American League box scores.
— M*A*S*H, (spoken by Klinger), "Bug-Out" (1976).
The League of nations founded by the prophet of Islam put the principle of international unity and human brotherhood on such universal foundations as to show candle to other nations. ... the fact is that no nation of the world can show a parallel to what Islam has done towards the realization of the idea of the League of Nations.
— Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje, as quoted in Encyclopaedic Survey of Islamic Culture (1997) by Mohamed Taher, p. 260
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.
— Denise Juneau, in 2012 Democratic National Convention: Remarks as Prepared for Delivery by The Honorable Denise Juneau, Superintendent of the Montana Office of Public Instruction (5 September, 2012)
Germany could not win this war because it was in League with the devil. This war would not have ended without revolution.
erich von dem bach— To Leon Goldensohn (14 February 1946) from The Nuremberg Interviews (2004) by Leon Goldensohn and Robert Gellately
I've been quoted in the past and I will continue to be quoted; I think he's the best player in our League right now.
LeBron James
"Nobody seems to appreciate what an incredible player Wilt was," Russell said at 1997 All-Star Game when the League named and honored its 50 greatest players. "He was the best player of all time because he dominated the floor like nobody else ever could. To be that big and that athletic was special."
wilt chamberlain— [2]
There is no comparison between him and me; he developed a whole new way of making art and he's clearly in a League of his own. It would be like making comparisons with Warhol.
tracey emin— The Independent on Sunday 2005-03-12. Accessed 2006-03-19.
— On artist Damien Hirst.
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.
emmitt smith— Troy Aikman — reported in Ed Werder (August 19, 1993) "Aikman: Smith should be top-paid runner", The Dallas Morning News, p. 8B.
Everybody has a different opinion in this League and nobody is a prophet. I personally don’t know who will win the League. I managed 1,600 games so, if Nani knows, he must be 1,600 times more intelligent than I am.
arsène wenger— About Nani, (December 2010) [9]
Nobody will finish above us in the League. It wouldn't surprise me if we were to go unbeaten for the whole of the season.
arsène wenger— Before the 2002-03 season commenced, (2002).
Every man who becomes heartily and understandingly a channel of the Divine benef1cence, is enriched through every League of his life. Perennial satisfaction springs around and within him with perennial verdure. Flowers of gratitude and gladness bloom all along his pathway, and the melodious gurgle of the blessings he bears is echoed back by the melodious waves of the recipient stream.
— Josiah Gilbert Holland, p. 26. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
This is so far out of my League.
— After being told by Emma's parents that she had levitated sugar into her father's bowl.
Anyone who does not watch rugby League is not a real person.
— John Singleton in the The Australian newspaper, 1980.
Since I finished playing rugby League, apartheid has ended, the Iron Curtain has come down and the Israelis have given up the Gaza Strip to the Palestinians. But I still can't play rugby on a Saturday afternoon.
— Former Castleford Tigers player Ian Birkby who had been prevented from playing socially for Cheshire rugby union club.
