Famous Quotes & Sayings

He throws strikes, has three pitches -- and his three pitches are major league caliber.

Chuck D.

He thought he was ready for the major leagues the day we signed him. That's why we signed him.

Mike Lowell

As a 20th round pick nothing was handed to me in the minor leagues.

Jose Mourinho

If Roman Abramovich helped me out in training we would be bottom of the league and if I had to work in his world of big business, we would be bankrupt!

Jose Mourinho

Like me or not, I am the only one who has won the world's three most important leagues. So, maybe instead of the 'Special One', people should start calling me the 'Only One'.

Joe Torre

Not that managing in the American League is easy, but this is certainly different. I'll have to have somebody poke me in the rear end when I have a pitcher that's going to hit.

Joe Maddon

I have not seen the National League enough to know.

John C. McGinley

Groups like the NAACP, The Anti-Defamation League, NOW and GLAAD, will respond to derisive language directed at their constituents. The price paid by those who cavalierly chose to verbally disrespect the dignity of African Americans, Jews, women and homosexuals is steep.

The lightweight league is very competitive this year, and any win will be hard-earned.

The league is right where we want it to be in terms of expectations of where we want to go.

The league is right in the middle of the subdivision.

Shannon Brown

All the leagues are a rival in some sense.

And after the league made with him he shall work deceitfully: for he shall come up, and shall become strong with a small people.

Hjalmar Branting

It is a commonplace that the League of Nations is not yet-what its most enthusiastic protagonists intended it to be

Hjalmar Branting

All in all, the League of Nations is not inevitably bound, as some maintain from time to time, to degenerate into an impotent appendage of first one, then another of the competing great powers

Hjalmar Branting

And the annual meetings of the League's Assembly are in effect official peace congresses binding on the participating states to an extent that most statesmen a quarter of a century ago would have regarded as utopian.

Joe Garagiola

Not only was I not the best catcher in the Major Leagues, I wasn't even the best catcher on my street!

The first thing to remember, as a first-time buyer, is you're completely out of your league in this deal. They're going to pull every trick they know to make you feel uncomfortable.

Jimmy Fallon

L.A. Clippers owner Donald Sterling was recorded on tape making racist comments. He now has been banned from the league for life. Great, just where Sterling wanted to end up - the blacklist.

Joe Bastianich

The general manager is kind of like the step into darkness when you reach the top of the league. As GM, you're responsible for everything, including the maitre d's and the sommeliers - all these people who have their own agendas. But you probably make less than the maitre d' and have a lot more work and a lot more headaches.

Jim Palmer

The only thing Earl (Weaver) knows about big-league pitching is that he couldn't hit it.

Gordon Ramsay

When you're cooking in the premier league of restaurants, when things go down, it has to be sorted immediately.

John Cole

It never gets old, being told you are a traitor and in league with the terrorists because you disagree with current administration policy.

Matt Kemp

I didn't know if I could make it to the big leagues without going through Triple-A.

Matt Kemp

If I could do it over, I'd want to come up to the big leagues like Mike Trout. He's exciting and I like watching him.

Josh Beckett

I'm the best. That's why I'm so relaxed out there. You've got to have some arrogant bones in your body, especially to be a pitcher in the big leagues.

John Schuerholz

We will be scouting every major league training camp, looking for the possibility for that to develop.

Jeff Nelson

They just want livable wages and a realistic per diem. I had to live with my parents until the day I got a major league job. Nobody's going to want to take these jobs.

Bobby Bowden

They led the league in turnovers, and we didn't get any,

Sometimes I think the league is just stifling itself, and I want people just to think and wonder... I talk all the time about how when I retire I want to be a part of the game.

Mike Powell

I love gaming, I'm actually more of a nerd than a metal head and if you see me at shows chances are I'm by our merch table playing league of legends on my laptop or playing super Nintendo or Playstation through an emulator. My Nintendo pretty much raised me.

Joe Dumars

Everyone is more focused on presenting the best that the league has to offer, rather than the worst.

Joe DiMaggio

After I got that hit off Satchel (Paige), I knew I was ready for the big leagues.