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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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
I've seen most things in this League in the last 25 years. I haven't seen anything like him. I said at the beginning of the game that he was special, he's more then that, he's irreplaceable.
thierry henry— Andy Gray
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]
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—
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.
"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
Apart from the Kingdom of the Lord there is not on this earth any nation that is superior to any other. Should it happen that a strong Government finds it may with impunity destroy a weak people, then the hour strikes for that weak people to appeal to the League of Nations to give its judgment in all freedom. God and history will remember your judgment.
— Haile Selassie I, Addressing the League of Nations on the Abyssinia Crisis and Second Italo-Abyssinian War in Geneva, Switzerland (30 June 1936).
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
Half a League, half a League, Half a League onward, All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred.
Tennyson— 1854 'The Charge of the Light Brigade', l.1-4.
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]
You can have the best skill in the world, but he has lots of will and that’s why he’s great. You look at the great young players around the League, including our players that we have here, and it’s their will. That’s what separates great players from medium players.
alexander ovechkin— Denis Savard, interview in Tim Sassone (October 11, 2008) "Can Hawks close gaps on Ovechkin?", Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, Illinois), p. 4.
I think T.O. is the ultimate right now in the League as far as being able to make plays. Every time he touches the ball, he is capable of doing something special with it.
terrell owens— Jeff Garcia — reported in Mike Triplett (November 22, 2001) "Owens receives his team's vote", The Sacramento Bee, p. C8.
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.
The garden lies, A League of grass, wash'd by a slow broad stream.
— Alfred Tennyson, Gardener's Daughter, line 40
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.
