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If you're in the minor leagues, you want to get to the majors.

I guess that's what Little League is all about -- trying.

I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business.

I had to wait nine days for a letter that said a lot of very silly things.

I had a lot of fun in those days. It was a great experience being in the Eastern Hockey League for the simple reason that you did not have a staff.

I guess I was maybe in little league baseball as far as I wanted to be good at that. But school, I certainly wasn't the best at that. But comedy thing and making movies and stuff, I love it so much that I do get driven to push myself as hard as I can.

I helped develop Disney's) special effects department at that time, which helped very much when we worked on "20000 Leagues under the Sea

I have maintained a passionate interest in education, which leads me occasionally to make foolish and ill-considered remarks alleging that not everything is well in our schools. My main concern is that an over-emphasis on testing and league tables has led to a lack of time and freedom for a true, imaginative and humane engagement with literature.

I have used, you know, marijuana ... since Ive been in the league.

I hope that the biggest change in the game is that people are saying that Major League Baseball owns the next generation. That is what I aspire to, everything we're trying to do is about that, and I hope I have enough time and enough help to get that done.

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

I have more critics than Hitler.

I just want to wear my heart on my sleeve.

I just wanted to go play in the big leagues. But possibly playing for the Yankees is very special.

I keep trying to tell people that Los Angeles is already the largest Indian city in the U.S., that there are Toltecs playing Little League baseball in Pasadena, Mayans making beds at the Marriott in Westwood, and Chichimecs driving buses in L.A. Los Angeles is a majority-Indian city.

I led the league in go get 'em next time.

I know it will take a little time to adapt to a different team and a different league.

I know we'll lead the league in defense.

I like Arsene for his principles but principles are sort of a restriction and restrictions are always lost possibilities.

I liked to play against all the teams in the National Football League or the American Football League, because they were always a challenge.

I love Blackpool. We're very similar. We both look better in the dark.

I lost the good stuff on my fastball. I had to come up with something to keep me in the league. The knuckler rescued me then.

I'm a graduate of Princeton, and I just want to say you don't have to go to an Ivy League school to be on the Supreme Court.

I love gaming, I'm actually more of a nerd than a metal head and if you see me at shows chances are I'm by our merch table playing league of legends on my laptop or playing super Nintendo or Playstation through an emulator. My Nintendo pretty much raised me.

I love the Premier League, I absolutely love Premier League games. Removing myself a footballer, I watch the Premier League. It's a great league, fantastic football is played in it.

I'm happy with my language progress - the only difficulty when I tour Premier League matches is that different people talk to me in different accents - and sometimes I can hardly understand a word!

I'm going to be honest, playing in D-League games is tough.

I'm going to cut taxes big league, and you're going to raise taxes big league, end of story.

I'm just one guy. I can't bring the whole league closer to the fans.

I'm reachable for people, I'm not out of their league. I'm just a normal girl.

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

I need to be out earning. I can make more in two hours at a card show than I did [as a minor-league manager] all year.

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.

In '32 we organized the Young Negroes' Cooperative League and had some degree of success in terms of establishing stores and certainly buying clubs in various sections of the country. I was designated as - I don't know what exactly - I believe it was director. I'm not sure what it was, but it had to do with getting out the necessary mail and all of that - organization.

In baseball, there is something electrifying about the big leagues. I had read so much about Stan Musial, Ted Williams and Jackie Robinson. I had put those guys on a pedestal. They were something special. I really thought they put their pants on different, rather than one leg at a time.

I never forgot the four years I spent with the Phillies, my September call-ups and my big league Spring Trainings. I never forgot that.

In the Premier League you never really know what is going to happen. There is very little between the teams.

[In management] you're getting an opportunity to meet and speak with the GMs, assistant GMs, owners, governors - all the way up the line. It's a great opportunity to understand the league a little better and the challenges it faces.

In football you need to have everything in your cake mix to make the cake taste right. One little bit of ingredient that Tony uses in his cake that gets talked about all the time is Rory's throw. Call that cinnamon and he's got a cinnamon flavoured cake.

In Freethinkers Hall, which before the Nazi resurgence was the national headquarters of the German Freethinkers League, the Berlin Protestant church authorities have opened a bureau for advice to the public in church matters. Its chief object is to win back former churchgoers and assist those who have not previously belonged to any religious congregation in obtaining church membership. The German Freethinkers League, which was swept away by the national revolution, was the largest of such organizations in Germany. It had about 500,000 members.

In sport, Americans are prominent in the Premier League - both on and off the pitch.

I perform in the major leagues of what I do. It's incredible.

I played on an all-boys team in the 8th grade, but they wouldnt throw me the ball even though I was on their team. One day I stole the ball from my own teammate and I made a basket. From that point on, everyone yelled Give the ball to the girl! I was the only girl on the whole league!

I played maybe one and a half games of Little League. The whole atmosphere of anxious parents and more anxious children was just too much for me.

I play hockey in a pickup league. I grew up playing, so it's nice to get on the ice whenever I can.

I predict that many teams will go out of business and the size of the leagues will be greatly reduced.

I shall not rest until Leeds United are kicked out of the football league. Their fans are the scum of the earth, absolute animals and a disgrace. I will do everything in my power to make sure this happens.

I remember being a teenager and having a boyfriend - this guy I thought I was way better than, and completely out of his league. He was a year younger than me. And he broke up with me. It was so shocking, and I couldn't believe it.

I see young quarterbacks just coming into the league, and they're throwing screens and layoffs right away. As funny as this might sound, I really learned a lot by going downfield, even in tight coverage.

I started to crouch because that way I could guard the plate better, and I always wanted to hit .300 in the big leagues.