Top 484 Leagues Quotes & Sayings - Page 3
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Last updated on April 19, 2025.
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.
Letting him manage in the major leagues is like sending Bo Derek through cellblock A without a bodyguard.
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.
We can talk about some small differences between the Premier League and La Liga, but they are the two best leagues in the world.
The fighting in the NHL, especially, and, I think, in some of the minor leagues, it's usually the loudest and the most excited the crowd gets during the entire the game.
Whether you're playing in the minor leagues or major-league divisions, wherever you are, it's always nice to be recognized as an All-Star.
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.
Young pitchers don't throw enough in the minor leagues, and when they get to the majors, they don't have the stamina; their arms haven't been built up.
As a 16-year-old, I was 5-foot-5 and maybe 145 pounds. It was hard to believe a guy like that was going to make it to the big leagues.
I think the concept of seeking fame and fortune in women's football in the States is a bit idyllic. Look at all the teams in America that have folded, and the leagues.
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.
It's definitely good to play out of my comfort zone, especially in the Sydney Premier League which is one of the toughest leagues in the world.
When you experience playing in two different leagues, you learn to adapt; you pick up elements from the best virtues of each culture.
Playing in the big leagues while my father is still active is the biggest thrill of my life. I try to see him play whenever I can.
Playing against an Italian team is harder than all the other leagues. The Italians won't score lots of goals, but they won't concede many, either.
Sailing to an island unknown Failing to find your way home you walk under a sea leagues beneath us
I really like Italy and Inter. When I was a kid I used to watch several leagues and I knew the names of all the greats that have played for this club.
To me, there is no more conscientious umpire in the Major Leagues than Jim Joyce. He gives you a hellacious effort every time.
Divock Origi isn't going to win Liverpool leagues, no disrespect. If he was better than Mohamed Salah or Roberto Firmino, he'd be playing every week.
A move to England? I understand why a lot of players are moving there. It's one of the best leagues in the world. But the same goes for the Bundesliga.
Just about every Latin American country has sent players to the big leagues, from the Dominican Republic to Costa Rica.
I'd like to help out in any way I can, especially with the younger guys in the minor leagues. But as far as setting something up, we haven't really talked about it.
Fundamentally, England, Spain and Germany were the relevant leagues I could see myself playing football in.
On Platini's presidential watch... he has to balance all the leagues, all the dreams and needs of hundreds of clubs across his continent.
I got a lot of games under my belt in the lower leagues, and I don't feel the Premier League or England is that much different.
Obviously, you have the physicality and the way the game is played in the Premier League. The goalkeeper is not as protected as in Europe or different leagues.
By 2012, my game was shot. You're sitting on your chair watching players' leagues below you play shots you can't. That destroyed me.
But the reason that women's football is still unknown is because it's not on television and not widely publicised for a wide majority of the leagues in the world.
I was broadcasting Cardinal baseball in the major leagues at the age of 21, and that only happened because my last name was Buck.
Dear Mr. Kuhn, After twelve years in the major leagues, I do not feel that I am a piece of property to be bought and sold irrespective of my wishes
My biggest problem in the big leagues is that I can't figure out how to spend forty-three dollars in meal money.
I don't see too many differences between Serie A and the Premier League. Both are unpredictable leagues, where anything can happen.
I'm a great believer in the lower leagues, the pyramid system, but there is mileage in having B-teams in England with young players playing competitively.
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 cannot consent to be led three or four hundred leagues out of my route, without its being by force of arms.
If you had told me when I was a kid that I'd have 100 home runs in the Major Leagues one day, it'd probably put a pretty good smile on my face.
Any decent coach can make more than enough money just doing three or four T20 leagues.
Struck in the wet mire
Four thousand leagues from the ninth buried city
I thought of Troy, what we had built her for.
If a team wants me to go to the minors to get ready and prepare, that's what I'm going to do and I will show that I should be pitching in the major leagues.
After 12 years in the minor leagues, I don't try out. Besides, uh, I don't believe in quantum physics when it comes to matters of the heart.
You can say baseball's fun, you're in the big leagues, you get to come to a Major League field every day - and, yeah, that's great. I love it.
I'm sure Putnam is right that there's been a decline in certain kinds of organizations like bowling leagues. But people participate in communities in other ways.
I guess what really made me a Dodgers fan from the beginning was that the team had Jackie Robinson, the first 'Negro' in the major leagues.
I'd like to help educate kids about the Major Leagues - what to anticipate, what to expect, what they'll need to do to prepare themselves.
The defenders in Italy are stronger, and that makes me better. Serie A is played in a different way to other leagues.
The child is small, and he includes the man; the brain is narrow, and it harbours thought; the eye is but a point, and it covers leagues
I still carry it with me that I'm a I-AA guy and I had to go down to the minor leagues in college football and prove who I was.
I think I can play in the big leagues 10 or 15 years. But more important to me is winning-win, make the playoffs.
I came into the game when I broke into the major leagues, the minimum salary was seven thousand dollars, and I'd have to go home in the wintertime and get a job.
That feeling you had in the lower leagues, the hunger you need to win and even earn wages, has never left me.
I always go back to when I was a kid and thinking about playing in the big leagues, so now that I've played in a thousand games, it's a cool accomplishment.
I started to crouch because that way I could guard the plate better, and I always wanted to hit .300 in the big leagues.
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.
Playing in America led to me getting a chance. Kicking around in the non-leagues I was going nowhere so I'm glad I did it.
I always wanted to be a player, but I never had the talent to make the big leagues. So I did the next best thing: I bought a team.
Every college player thinks they're on their way. But, delusions aside, I might have toiled in the minor leagues for a bit.
In the big leagues everyone has ability. It always comes down to mind games. Who ever is more mentally strong-wins.
We see government's mission as fostering and enabling the important realms - our businesses, service clubs, Little Leagues, churches - to flourish.
Not many people get to the major leagues and succeed right away. There are some struggles. Everyone seems to struggle.
Anybody with ability can play in the big leagues. To last as long as I did with the skills I had, with the numbers I produced, was a triumph of the human spirit.
