Quotes of: Ivy-league Keyword

I'm a little skeptical of foreign coaches in our league and in U.S. Soccer just because of how different our league is and our players are than other players around the world.

Landon Donovan

I never was brought into the league thinking as far as, you know, statistics, things like that. We were really brought into the league in a team concept. Everything was focused around winning.

Mark Messier

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.

Mike Quade

In baseball, you can hit 40 home runs on a single-A-league team and never get paid a thing. But in a hedge fund, you get paid on your batting average. So you go to the worst league you can find, where there's the least competition.

Julian Robertson

You still remember the bad rounds here, but they don't stay with you as long. The Champions Tour is great, it's competitive and it's a wonderful show, but it's not the real big league. The real big league is the PGA Tour, and we all know that.

Tom Kite

I played Little League for one year. That was it. Then my mother realized I liked books and threatened my father. I owe her forever for that.

Brad Meltzer

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.

Christopher Columbus

I think there's more of opportunity to win games in the National League than the American League because there are more decisions to make.

Joe Torre

Minor league umpires are evaluated in their respective leagues each year and rated numerically. This enables umpires to know where they stand and helps them make prudent career decisions.

Jim Evans

My father was a Little League dictator. That really affected me, his control-freakery, his impunity, his arbitrary unreasonable power.

Junot Diaz

The European organisation contemplated could not oppose any ethnic group, on other continents or in Europe itself, outside of the League of Nations, any more than it could oppose the League of Nations.

Aristide Briand

There are only two choices. Stay here and die. Or get up and see what happens next.

The Book of Ivy

Every mode of travel has its signature mental aberration.

Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void

Major political parties have a role, but they are incapable of initiating fundamental change because they are fundamentally tied to the status quo. They are the status quo.

Marianne Williamson

The irony here is this administration is spending more money on climate change research and development than any administration in all the rest of the industrialized world combined.

Christine Todd Whitman

In our natural state, we are glorious beings. In the world of illusion, we are lost and imprisoned, slaves to our appetites and our will to false power.

Marianne Williamson

You don't get married for yourself, you get married because you're better together than separate.

Out of My League: A Rookie's Survival in the Bigs

When you talk about the American League, you think of Fenway. When you talk about the National League, you think of Wrigley and the fan base that they have in Chicago.

Pat Gillick

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.

Roy Clark

I don't trust most people. Except for you." "Why me?" "Because everyone needs someone to put their faith in.

The Book of Ivy

My mission is not to make him happy and bear his children and be his wife. My mission is to kill him.

The Book of Ivy