Quotes of: Big-leagues Keyword

Marijuana is not tested for, and yet that is the big thing guys are getting in trouble with in the league. It's terrible.

Karl Malone

The Champions League is a big ambition, and all the footballers want to play in it; it is a very important competition.

Fernando Torres

I started in the lowest league in baseball, and I worked my way all the way up to Triple A and then to the big leagues. I never reached the level that I thought I would reach as a player. But that's the way it goes. So then I started from the bottom ...

Tommy Lasorda

My dreams do not end with playing Major League Baseball.

Derek Jeter

I want to be a traveling circus in that big-league uniform, like everybody else.

Dontrelle Willis

Little did we know then that CNN would become the big league.

Christiane Amanpour

Just as I'm fortunate to pitch in the big leagues, I'm also fortunate for the time I get to spend outdoors.

Jon Lester

Say this for big league baseball - it is beyond any question the greatest conversation piece ever invented in America.

Bruce Catton

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.

Ron Fournier

My dad is the reason I actually started watching wrestling. My dad was never big into sports; we were all big into sports as kids, and he'd go to our Little League games or whatever and not really know what was going on, because he didn't know about ...

John Cena

Of course the Premier League is the most difficult league in the world because it's so even. I think you can't really compare other leagues with the Premier League. In the Premier League, every team can beat every team, and in football, that's someth...

Mesut Ozil

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.

Joe Torre

It's a sensitive thing, playing major league baseball.

Tony La Russa

I had 12 years under my belt of baseball at the amateur level before I got to the big leagues.

Tom Seaver

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.

Russell Wilson

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

Nick Johnson

Every kid in America dreams of playing in the big leagues and they don't, just because. It's not because they blew out their knee. It's just because they didn't make it.

Marc Blucas

Sooner or later you learn that you belong in the big leagues, and that makes you calm down.

Dennis Eckersley

A major league pitching coach is a really difficult job. It takes a big commitment in terms of time, travel and workload.

David Cone

I'm from West Virginia. If you didn't know what was happening in NASCAR, you were on the outside. NASCAR is a big league sport, but it's still also country and redneck.

Randy Moss

I was branded a Negro in the States and had to act accordingly. They wouldn't even give me a chance in the big leagues because I was a Negro, yet they accepted every other nationality under the sun.

Willie Wells