Famous Quotes & Sayings

Christopher Columbus

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.

George R. R. Martin

I crossed a thousand leagues to come to you, and lost the best part of me along the way. Don't tell me to leave.

I wanted a shot at the big league level, and I wasn't getting it. Twelve years was enough. We were ready for some stability.

Jay Payton

I've had a year to learn the pitching in this league and that will help.

I've got a league to run. I don't have time for this.

It's tough to say. We'll send him to the Instructional League and see where he is in relationship to where he should be, game-wise,

Lawyer Milloy

I told him this league is about winning and losing. It doesn't matter what your stats are, as long as you're the quarterback on a winning team you're going to be a star.

Mike Jacobs

It's a very big opportunity. You don't see an opportunity like this come up in major league baseball. In the six years I've been playing in the minors, I don't think I've ever seen it.

It needs to be changed. I think the league should look at widening the pool of voters.

Felipe Alou

It looked like a World Series American League team when I wrote it.

Tom Izzo

It was a big road win because any road win in this league is a big road win.

It was a major league performance. It was brilliant.

It's going to be a tough league but probably not much tougher than where we've been.

It's his 35th year in the league and he still makes 100 percent of his workouts.

It showed that we could match up with any frontline in the league and be successful.

Larry Fitzgerald

That's something you're going to see in this league every week, ... I am physical enough to get off the line of scrimmage.

John Calipari

That's what this league is all about. The first half, the building's electric. National TV. Two teams prepared to go hard.

Derek Fisher

That's what this league is about - you have to counterpunch. And we got punched. But we punched back.

That's not a problem. We had to get permission from Major League Baseball, so it's not a problem.

That's me, baby. I talk on base. I talk when I go to the plate. I talk to the catcher, the umpires. It's all good. I don't know too many catchers in the National League yet, but most people know my personality. They just smile.

Every team in our league is a rival.

Every situation is new, and we're going to have to be able to come out with energy. The team that wins this league is going to be the one that comes out and plays every night.

Mike Quade

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.

Jay Feaster

Maybe in the minor leagues. With my velocity, they would pick it up and say, 'Hey, you dropped something.'

Carlo Ancelotti

I'll take account of things at the end of the season. Now I'm expecting a good finish to the league season.

Nate Robinson

He played like he has been in the league for 10 years.

Ian Holloway

Managing a league club is like making love to a mermaid... you should always be aiming for a top half finish

Horace Mann

Benevolence is a world of itself -- a world which mankind, as yet, have hardly begun to explore. We have, as it were, only skirted along its coasts for a few leagues, without penetrating the recesses, or gathering the riches of its vast interior.

Joel Guzman

If I hit, I'll be in the Major Leagues and that's where I want to be.

Sheldon Souray

I don't think there's another goalie in the league playing as well as him. If he had played the whole season, he'd be the Vezina Trophy winner.

I don't think the league is getting boring,

Frank Beamer

How those quarterbacks play will go a long way toward determining how the league goes.

Ella Baker

From the Cooperative League, I suppose, with the Depression lingering as long as it did, the next step in terms of, as you call it, professional relationship, was to go to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People [NAACP]. I went there as an assistant field secretary, and so forth. So, I suppose that was the first organized step.