Best 424 quotes in «league quotes» category

In league with being graced by greatness, prepare to be greeted, by all that is beneath you.

It is probably a good thing that Karen Wetterhahn died from mercury poisoning, as if she had survived, she would have discovered the horrible Dartmouth College workers compensation experience for occupational disease.

Mercury poisoning wrecked my health and career.

Nothing messes up a man completely on the inside than not knowing what to do when he finds a woman who is so loveable but realizes she is way out of his league and so many better men than him are out to woo her.

Independence Day, July 4th, or as I know it: The end of the USA cricket league!

I remember how excited I was to work for the Ivy League. By the time I left, I would not advise anyone to work for them.

The thing that most shocked me about astronomy in the Ivy League was how run down and poorly functioning their telescopes were.

I was surprised when I discovered my mercury poisoning that the company had changed its mercury handling policies years earlier and had not informed me.

Working as a manager in the Ivy League was the most demoralizing experience that I ever had in the workplace.

The Ivy League is developing a sad history of preventable mercury poisoned employees that has led to death in at least one case.

Abolish the Loyal League and the Ku Klux Klan; let us come together and stand together.

When sending your children to an Ivy League school, you must remember that some schools prevent Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) from visiting their training and research facilities.

AFC Wimbledon in the League! Talk about the ashes rising from the flames.

After the First World War, it was, like, let's form the League of Nations, we have to learn to work together. It's the only way we're going to survive. And now it's like we're undoing these very fragile institutions that were built after the First and Second World Wars that were about nations working on a kind of global diplomacy for our mutual benefit. And we're undoing them at such rapid-fire pace.

Allow me to introduce myself. I am a traitor and an idiot. Also, my mother should have aborted me and left me in a dumpster, but since she didn't, I should 'off' myself.

Out of all of my employers, the Ivy League was by far the worst.

All of a sudden I'm in the major leagues and we're traveling from town to town. I see the other players dressing different every day. I've got only one suit and I keep wearing it over and over. I'm really embarrassed.

A lot of people don't trust the pitch. There's this kind of reputation it has for being untrustworthy and fickle and capricious and everything else, and those are words that big league managers and general managers and organizations aren't too fond of.

A lot of players know I've been around 13 years and this is my second lockout. I got a lot of respect. I know what's going on both for the league and the union.

Although they can do it all the time, you know, they're far better than me, on a musically, on a theoretical music level. You know, they're out of my league.

Always people have counted me out since I got in the league. It never made me any difference. I kept myself around positive people, got a great support system and just kept at it.

American League teams don't bunt very often. National League teams bunt a lot.

Always wanted to be a Major League player. Loved baseball. Followed it. Loved to play. Plus, I could always hit.

Amid all the negativity at Newcastle, we achieved some great things. Finishing fifth in the Premier League with a great team was a fine effort and we also got to the quarterfinals of the Europa League and nearly got past a Benfica side that went to the final. They were great days, great nights at St James' Park and I remember them with affection. Maybe they are forgotten too quickly.

American society is now remarkably atomized. Political organizations have collapsed. In fact, it seems like even bowling leagues are collapsing. The left has a lot to answer for here. There's been a drift toward very fragmenting tendencies among left groups, toward this sort of identity politics.

And that's why, you know, it's players like Randy Moss that unfortunately put a stain on the entire league.

And then when I went to stay in '68, I can honestly say that I was not focused on my career and on what it took to be a major league pitcher and to be a starting pitcher.

A lot of people think Major League’s called Wild Thing. As they should.

Arsenal are streets ahead of everyone in this league and Manchester United are up there with them.

As a 20th round pick nothing was handed to me in the minor leagues.

Any man that resists the present tides that run in the world, will find himself thrown upon a shore so high and barren that it will seem he has been separated from his human kind forever.

And you learn [how to win] starting in the minor leagues, by winning day in and day out.

As a youngster, I played in Little League, Pony League, and all sorts of amateur baseball programs growing up.

As a player it is great to experience many other ways of playing, other tactics and other mentalities. I have played in several countries and because of that I know without any doubt that the English league is the one for me.

A significant piece of the wealth that the NFL owners garner is a result of the enormous TV revenues they get - and those revenues are supported by a legislatively granted exemption from the antitrust laws that has been made applicable to sports leagues, primarily the NFL.

As a player, to me the Dodgers were the Yankees of the National League because you either loved them or you hated them.

As long as the problem of world reconstruction remains the center of interest for all nations, blocs having similar attitudes will form and operate even within the League itself.

At nineteen I was pretty sure I was going to be a professional soccer player. At that time I played for one of the Norwegian premier leagues. But I tore ligaments in both knees, so I started studying business administration and economics and became a financial analyst, and I worked at a brokerage firm as a stockbroker.

At the minor-league and major-league level, you know how important your coaching staff is, but in a big market it becomes absolutely huge.

At my growing years of 18 to 21 years old in the Minor Leagues, I dreamed of being a Philadelphia Phillie.

Baseball in the Navy always was much more fun than it had been in the major leagues.

Barcelona is my life. They have brought me to where I am today. I could not leave, I don't want to leave. I know the Premier League is very good. But I cannot see myself playing in England because my heart is with Barcelona, always.

As a mentalist, perhaps only Orson Wells was in Jason's league. After a career in television, Randal has my endorsement. He's simply the best I've ever seen!

Benevolence is a world of itself -- a world which mankind, as yet, have hardly begun to explore. We have, as it were, only skirted along its coasts for a few leagues, without penetrating the recesses, or gathering the riches of its vast interior.

Behind the concept of woman's strangeness is the idea that a woman may do anything: she is below society, not bound by its law, unpredictable; an attribute given to every member of the league of the unfortunate.

BenJarvus Green-Ellis was great to me. He's the type of person that you want to learn from because he understands the game and he's been in the league for a while. He's a great role model to a lot of guys on the team, including myself.

Being there every week for my teammates is really important to me. It's about accountability. I hear stuff about the 'toughest quarterback in the league' and all that; what's that mean?

Big league defense is going to get outs most times.

Between me and my roommate, we've hit 400 Major League home runs.

Bryzgalov isn’t just a running comedy act. He’s one of the league’s most thoughtful players and the fact that he offers the insight he does in his second language is something he’ll never get enough credit for.