Quotes of: Minor-league Keyword

We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.

20,000 Leagues Under The Sea

It was like the Justice League of Super Heroes but instead it was the Justice League of Hot Guys.

Rock Chick Rescue

If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

Kids should practice autographing baseballs. This is a skill that's often overlooked in Little League.

Tug McGraw

We have an obligation to spread amateur baseball both at home and abroad. Building up the game at all levels - Little League, Babe Ruth Leagues, the colleges - is in our own self-interest. That's where the pool of talent is - and also of fans.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

I grew up with baseball; I played in Little League and went to games with my dad. But I, as I grew up, became more of a basketball fanatic than a baseball one.

Jonah Hill

I would love to see as many of the black players as possible in today's Major League Baseball make every effort to go to the Negro Leagues Museum and get a first-hand view of how it all started.

Ferguson Jenkins

I'm ambitious, I want to play in the Champions League, and that's the aim with Tottenham - to start qualifying for the Champions League on a consistent basis.

Gareth Bale

You can't know what it's like to be a major league umpire unless you were a major league umpire.

Doug Harvey

God have pity on the smell of gasoline which finds its way like an arm through a car window, more human than kerosene, more unctuous, more manly.

In the Voice of a Minor Saint

one wonders how much real conversation there is when one party does not, in many districts, have to contend for the votes of minorities, and the other can only elevate minorities into positions of power when the political wind is blowing in its direc...

Garrance Franke-Ruta

In 1968, the situation at Harvard was not one of which we can be proud. In that year, the proportion of minority persons in salary and wage positions was approximately 3 per cent. Virtually no minority workers were employed on Harvard construction pr...

Derek Bok

Majorities, as such, afford no guarantees for justice. They are men of the same nature as minorities. They have the same passions for fame, power, and money, as minorities; and are liable and likely to be equally - perhaps more than equally, because ...

Lysander Spooner

Oh, figures!' answered Ned. 'You can make figures do whatever you want.

20,000 Leagues Under The Sea

The contracts are structured different than athletes in America, but for me, it was good to move on and go back to playing in the premiere league, which is the best league. It was disappointing, as far as the team goes, but for me, there wasn't much ...

Claudio Reyna

The Premier League is the best league in the world; it's so strong. The smaller teams love to try their chances against the big ones, and this is why the game goes back and forth. That can be strenuous, tough on you and your body, but I really love i...

Mesut Ozil

I am happy to be playing in the Premier League because everyone knows it is the strongest league in the world. There are simply a lot of top teams.

Mesut Ozil

My first year of pro ball I played in the Northwest league and made the all-star team, and the next year I played I led the team in hitting and was third or fifth in the league.

Kurt Russell

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

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