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
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).
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 League of Nations grows in moral courage. Its frown will soon be more dreaded than a nation's arms, and when that happens, you and I shall have securityand peace.
(James) Ramsay Macdonald— 1929 Speech, London, 9 Nov.
Let the League of Nations say whatever it pleases, let America offer whatever interference, let China decry Japan's action at the top of her voice, but Japan must adhere to her course unswervingly.
sadao araki— Quoted in "China and America" - Page 200 - by Foster Rhea Dulles - Political Science - 1981
You get pictures in pre-season. You get pictures of fitness, you get pictures of attitude, you get pictures of mentality, you get pictures of systems and the way players play and you also get pictures of whether people can step up to the plate in the Premier League. I was getting all those pictures in the first half
phil brown— 28-Jul-2008 Hull City OWS
— The pre-season friendly against Crewe provided a huge boost to Phil's picture collection.
The League is dead; long live the United Nations!
cecil, robert, 1st viscount cecil of chelwood— Last speech before the League of Nations (8 April 1946).
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.
Drawing a comparison to football, it could be said that the Spanish economy has, during this legislature, into the Champions League of the world economy, however bad that may seem to some."
josé luis rodríguez zapatero— 11th Sept. 2007, during a speech by the PSOE in the Congress of Deputies.
— Source: Zapatero: "El Gobierno ha situado a España en la Champions League de las economías del mundo" Cadena SER.
Willingham, waiting in the batters box, Wagner ready, the 1–0 pitch, swing and fly ball to left, Floyd under it, he's there, put it in the books, The New York Mets have won the 2006 National League Eastern Division Championship and the party is under way.
howie rose— Calling the 2006 National League East Clincher.
As a non-Arsenal player I would say Ryan Giggs is my Premier League player of the decade because he has combined style with winning. Also I feel sorry he could never attend the World Cup, somewhere where people get a lot of compliments when they do well.
arsène wenger— On Ryan Giggs, (2009) [7]
A good cigar is like a beautiful chick with a great body who also knows the American League box scores.
— M*A*S*H, Klinger, Bug-Out 1976.
It [Corinthian League] comprised states, which were each bound to Macedon by bilateral treaties; and it was perfectly natural that they should create a general alliance under the leadership of the Macedonian king, acting as the spiritual successors of the Hellenic League of 480 BC.
— A.B. Bosworth, professor of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Western Australia, "Conquest and Empire: The Reign of Alexander the Great", Cambridge University Press, Reissue Edition, March 1993
Philip first cut the ground from under it by uniting the nation in his Corinthian League[...]In this manner Philip united all Greeks (with the single exception of Sparta) into a League of states, and so for the first time in history created a Greek unified state.
— Ulrich Wilcken, "Alexander the Great"
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.
— David Lloyd George, Lord Riddell's diary entry (18 December 1920), J. M. McEwen (ed.), The Riddell Diaries 1908-1923 (London: The Athlone Press, 1986), p. 330.
I salute the contribution that Rugby League has made to Australia's national identity, it's a tough game. It started as a working man's game; it's become every man's game now. It still retains that working class character and that's part of its heart and soul and I hope it always does, but it is also a game that has reached out to the entire community.
— Former Australian Prime Minister, John Howard.
League is much more physical than union, and that's before anyone starts breaking the rules.
— Former Welsh international rugby union player Adrian Hadley who went on to play League for Salford.
There's no crying in baseball!
Jimmy Dugan— Said by Jimmy Dugan (Tom Hanks) in A League of Their Own (1992)
Every man who becomes heartily and understandingly a channel of the Divine beneficence, 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— Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895, pg. 26)
I have loved but one flag and I can not share that devotion and give affection to the mongrel banner invented for a League.
Henry Cabot Lodge— Remarks in the Senate (August 12, 1919), Congressional Record, vol. 58, p. 3784.
We are caught in the coil of a God's romances —We come from old worlds and we go afar:I have missed you again in the Earth's wild chances —Now to another star!Perhaps we are led and our loves are fated,And our steps are counted one by one;Perhaps we shall meet and our souls be mated,After the burnt-out sun.For over the world a dim hope hovers,The hope at the heart of all our songs —That the banded stars are in League with lovers,And fight against their wrongs.
edwin markham— II
When you look at Obafemi Martins, in my eyes he is one of the best strikers at the moment in this League and maybe Europe as well. He is flexible, he is fast, he can shoot with both feet and he is a good header of the ball.
obafemi martins— Louis van Gaal, the Dutch football manager. Van Gaal Rates Martins. Sporting Life (March 8, 2007). Retrieved on 2007-03-08.
He had scarcely gone a short League, when Fortune, that was conducting his affairs from good to better, discovered to him the road, where he also espied an Inn. Sancho positively maintained it was an Inn, and his master that it was a castle; and the dispute lasted so long that they arrived there before it was determined.
Miguel de Cervantes— Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote (1605-15), Part I, Chapter XV.
Long for the wakeful is the night. Long for the weary, a League. For fools unaware of True Dhamma, samsara is long. (Verse 60)
— Translator: Thanissaro Bhikkhu
I have loved but one flag and I can not share that devotion and give affection to the mongrel banner invented for a League.
— Henry Cabot Lodge, remarks in the Senate (August 12, 1919), Congressional Record, vol. 58, p. 3784.
The banning of rugby League was decided, in 1941, by the director of sports, who was a union player, and who was convinced that the disappearance of rugby League would favour the development of rugby union.
— Former Wimbledon champion Jean Borotra, who was appointed by the Vichy government during the Second World War to run a department known as the Commissariat General A L'Education Generale Et Sportive, a section of the Ministry Of Family And Youth.
I'm 49, I've had a brain haemorrhage and a triple bypass and I could still go out and play a reasonable game of rugby union. But I wouldn't last 30 seconds in rugby League.
— Graham Lowe, former Wigan Warriors, Manly Sea Eagles, North Queensland Cowboys, Samoa and New Zealand coach.
The main difference between playing League and union is that now I get my hangovers on Monday instead of Sunday.
— Tom David, former Welsh rugby union international, after switching codes.
It's the first time I've been cold for seven years. I was never cold playing rugby League.
— Jonathan Davies, on the biggest change after returning to the union code.
