A Quote by Joe DiMaggio
A ball player has to be kept hungry to become a big leaguer. That's why no boy from a rich family has ever made the big leagues.
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My managerial ambitions were the same as I had as a player: to become as good as possible and to join the big teams in the big leagues.
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I couldn't believe I was in the big leagues. I also knew that I have to work hard every single day to stay in the big leagues. One thing is getting to the big leagues; another thing is to stay.
Everybody in the minor leagues - if you're a player, an announcer, whatever - wants to be in the big leagues.
If you don't set goals, you'll never reach them. Or like they say in golf, if you aim for nothing, you'll hit it every time. Take any player in the major leagues: I'd say just about everyone of them had a dream - a goal - to be a big-leaguer when they were kids. It wasn't an easy goal, but it was a reachable one, and that's important.
I was very surprised when Dhoni retired from Test cricket; I thought he would have kept playing. He is a big player and you need big players in big tournaments.
He's a big player, and the big players score the big goals and make the big contributions in the big games. That's what determines a great player. That's what Steven Gerrard is.
I became a big boy without ever meaning to, or planning to and I had to play by the big-boy rules.
Pitching in the big leagues is a dream. Preparing to pitch in the big leagues is a nightmare!
If anyone wants to know why three kids in one family made it to the big leagues they just had to know how we helped each other and how much we practiced back then. We did it every minute we could.
When a big player leaves, a big player leaves. You're at a big club like Liverpool, another big player will come in the future.
Playboy in Brazil is like a rich boy, but I've never been a rich boy. My family is not rich. Actually, I help all my family.
How to hit home runs: I swing as hard as I can, and I try to swing right through the ball... The harder you grip the bat, the more you can swing it through the ball, and the farther the ball will go. I swing big, with everything I've got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can.
I kept listening in the minor leagues, and even earlier than that, people would say, 'If you don't hit the fastball, you're not going to get to the big leagues.' Every game, you're going to get a fastball.
Infield practice is more mystic ritual than preparation, encouraging the big-leaguer, no less than the duffer in the stands, to believe in spite of all evidence to the contrary, that playing ball is a snap.
I played good ball in the minor leagues, and that's why they called me up to the major leagues.
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