I certainly didn't think of myself as gifted. The standards for being gifted in my environment were if you were good in Little League or if you were good in football.
I liked St. Louis, when they were in the American League, because that was going home. I had all my family and friends there.
These kids are the future of the National Football League. They're the next generation that will be playing high school football, NCAA football, and some even to the pros.
I had come to regard the U.S. Senate's rejection of the League of Nations as a tragic mistake.
If he can hit, he can hit. I don't care if he came from Class Z league.
Not many people get to the major leagues and succeed right away. There are some struggles. Everyone seems to struggle.
When I first got into the league, I tried to fit in. Now I don't care.
And that's why, you know, it's players like Randy Moss that unfortunately put a stain on the entire league.
Why shouldn't we pitch to Babe Ruth? We pitch to better hitters in the National League.
The National League was born the following year, as an attempt to exert the control of capital over labor.
Too many kids today are playing major league ball and don't belong there.
Really, I learned a long time ago that in the National Football League, paper doesn't mean anything. Football teams are created on the football field.
Everything we talk about is about beating the Packers, the Bears and the Vikings. Obviously there are other teams in the league, but if you can dominate and be on top of your division you are always in the playoff hunt. It's time for us to win that t...
To me, there is no more conscientious umpire in the Major Leagues than Jim Joyce. He gives you a hellacious effort every time.
I've always been fascinated with aristocracy. I'm really interested in the Ivy Leagues, the final clubs, all the really old-money families, the concept of old money.
That's what Major League Baseball's steroid scandal was all about, the hidden harm in competitive sports that sends the wrong message to the young.
I couldn't beat people with my strength; I don't have a hard shot; I'm not the quickest skater in the league. My eyes and my mind have to do most of the work.
Canadians tend to be a bit more religious than most Europeans - though not more than the Poles or Ukrainians. Most important, their attitude to immigration and ethnic minorities is more positive than that of most Europeans.
If you can slow the biological process of aging, even a minor slowdown in the rate at which we age yields improvements in virtually every condition of frailty and disability and mortality that we see at later ages.
It is the right of a traveller to vent their frustration at every minor inconvenience by writing of it to their friends.
Of course, the aim of a constitutional democracy is to safeguard the rights of the minority and avoid the tyranny of the majority. (p. 102)
