Top 1200 Big Leagues Quotes & Sayings
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Last updated on April 14, 2025.
Sooner or later you learn that you belong in the big leagues, and that makes you calm down
That was a very aha moment. It was, 'I'm in the big leagues.'
In England, somewhere. I want to be at a big team, in the big leagues again.
Everybody's dream is to be in the big leagues, but only one in a million gets here.
You have to hit the fastball to play in the big leagues.
Everybody in the minor leagues - if you're a player, an announcer, whatever - wants to be in the big leagues.
I still don't know how I got to the big leagues because I wasn't that good.
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.
There's a lot more to playing in the big leagues in New York than just the baseball part.
I wasn't quite sure how a player got to the big leagues. As far as I knew, he was just there one day.
I know what a full season is like in the big leagues. It's not going to be a surprise anymore.
How do you want to live your life? How do you want to play the game? Do you want to play in the big leagues or in the little leagues, in the majors or the minors? Are you going to play big or play small? It's your choice.
There were a lot of players who worked just as hard as I did, and if you didn't, you didn't stay in the big leagues.
I'm the best. That's why I'm so relaxed out there. You've got to have some arrogant bones in your body, especially to be a pitcher in the big leagues.
I had 12 years under my belt of baseball at the amateur level before I got to the big leagues.
I played good ball in the minor leagues, and that's why they called me up to the major leagues.
I always think the same: English players don't generally leave England, which is strange. But of course, the Premier League's got the reputation as one of best leagues going, and one of the most competitive leagues.
I just wanted to go play in the big leagues. But possibly playing for the Yankees is very special.
I took a huge risk leaving baseball, because I was predicted to play in the big leagues. I'm kind of a prototypical second baseman.
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.
I never thought I'd get drafted, let alone make the big leagues.
I started to crouch because that way I could guard the plate better, and I always wanted to hit .300 in the big leagues.
When there were just eight teams in each of the big leagues, I was always told, 'It's hard to come up, but it's just hard to stay in the big leagues.' That's because there's always somebody. The Cardinals had so many minor league clubs and had so many good ballplayers.
I went to college for a reason, and that was to skip the minor leagues. I spent a year in the minors and got my at-bats in, and then I felt like I was ready for the big leagues.
To put it better, we believe the radar gun will get you drafted, but you have to pitch to get to the big leagues. Tools will get you drafted, but you have to be able to play to get to the big leagues.
Pitching in the big leagues is a dream. Preparing to pitch in the big leagues is a nightmare!
People used to say that I thought I was Gareth Bale, and that's not the case at all. I'm nowhere near that level. The guy has won so much - Leagues, Champions Leagues, scoring worldies in finals.
It was always a dream as a footballer to compete in the best leagues in the world and those leagues are here in Europe.
Before broadcasting for 50-some years, I did TV, played 10 years in the big leagues, won a world championship - and played a big part in that, too, letting the Cardinals inject me with hepatitis. Takes a big man to do that.
Just about every Latin American country has sent players to the big leagues, from the Dominican Republic to Costa Rica.
I'm not in the big leagues just because I'm cute.
Most political journalists come to Washington because they're snappy writers, big thinkers, or news breakers. Me? My ticket to the big leagues had little to do with talent. It was mostly about the governor I was covering, Bill Clinton.
I don't expect any red carpet to the big leagues. If the opportunity comes, then it comes. But I don't think I'm owed anything.
Any time you're in the coaching business or managing in the minor leagues, when you see a player who has made it to the major leagues, you get a thrill out of that.
I was such a screwup when I got to the big leagues. I was a total idiot.
You can only shoot small movies and documentaries for so long if you want to have a family that you support; eventually, you need to get let into the big leagues.
Sooner or later you learn that you belong in the big leagues, and that makes you calm down.
I didn't know if I could make it to the big leagues without going through Triple-A.
It's always going to be difficult for Asian countries to create big leagues because Europe is so settled.
I want to finish my career in Cleveland. They gave me the opportunity to play in the big leagues.
In the big leagues everyone has ability. It always comes down to mind games. Who ever is more mentally strong-wins.
If the cards just so happen to be drawn that I get called up to the big leagues and become ineligible to go to the Olympics, then so be it.
This is the big leagues; pitchers throw a lot of strikes. I feel like they attack me. That's why I go up there and swing.
The minor leagues were great. When you first sign, that is your big leagues.
I wanted to be in the big leagues, not stuck in the minor leagues.
If you reach a point where your entire farm system is in the big leagues, you've traded a couple guys for players who are now in the big leagues, you know what you do? You start over in your farm system, and you keep developing the talented players you have.
When I was 16 years old, my brother Frank said, 'You'd better become a catcher, because you're too big and fat to do anything else.' Well, I took his advice. It was a quick way to get to the big leagues, and I've never regretted it.
I want to win a World Series. I've come in second, both in college and in the big leagues. I'm tired of it.
There are more second-, third-, fourth-, fifth- and so on in the big leagues than first-round picks.
I think England is one of the biggest soccer leagues in the world - fantastic! Just like Spain's LaLiga also, with big players, big teams.
I found that part of it towards San Salvador extending from north to south five leagues, and the other side which we coasted along, ran from east to west more than ten leagues.
After I got that hit off Satchel (Paige), I knew I was ready for the big leagues.
I remember us all playing Trivial Pursuit at home and my granddad was a member of a local quiz leagues. When I was old enough, I joined the Bolton leagues.
I really have never been nervous in the big leagues.
Life is so fast. And I still remember when I came up to the big leagues and played as if it were yesterday. Time flies.
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.
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.
My biggest problem in the big leagues is that I can't figure out how to spend forty-three dollars in meal money.
It was a dream of mine to play in all the big leagues.
When you're a first-round pick and you get to the big leagues at 22, there's almost a sense that you've got to mature.
