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When I was growing up, there weren't any Little Leagues in the city. Parents worked all the time. They didn't have time to take their kids out to play baseball and football. -- Mike Krzyzewski
Well, it looks like the all-star balloting is about over, especially in the National and American Leagues. -- Jerry Coleman
At my growing years of 18 to 21 years old in the Minor Leagues, I dreamed of being a Philadelphia Phillie. -- Ryne Sandberg
There was nothing to keep him (Cal Ripken, Jr.) from being a star in the Major Leagues. That was inevitable. -- Earl Weaver
One day, one of my dreams is to someday get to do Nemo in '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.' -- Nicolas Cage
Not only was I not the best catcher in the Major Leagues, I wasn't even the best catcher on my street! -- Joe Garagiola
We see government's mission as fostering and enabling the important realms - our businesses, service clubs, Little Leagues, churches - to flourish. -- Mitch Daniels
I helped develop Disney's) special effects department at that time, which helped very much when we worked on "20000 Leagues under the Sea" -- John Hench
To me, there is no more conscientious umpire in the Major Leagues than Jim Joyce. He gives you a hellacious effort every time. -- Tony La Russa
I'd like to help educate kids about the Major Leagues - what to anticipate, what to expect, what they'll need to do to prepare themselves -- Barry Bonds
I'd like to help educate kids about the Major Leagues - what to anticipate, what to expect, what they'll need to do to prepare themselves. -- Barry Bonds
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. -- Lorde
England really is the birthplace, the heart and soul of football. If Barcelona had Liverpool's fans, or Arsenal's, or United's, we'd have won 20 Champions Leagues, hahaha! -- Xavi
When you're a kid growing up, you say you want to make it to the Major Leagues, and when you reach that dream, that's what it's all about. -- Joe Morgan
Anyone with talent can play in the Major Leagues; for someone like me to stay around as long as I did, I think that's a much greater acheivement. -- Bob Uecker
I must say that the tasks of the youth in general, and of the Young Communist Leagues and all other organisations in particular, might be summed up in a single word: learn. -- Vladimir Lenin
I learned a lot in the Minor Leagues, spending six years there. I honed my skills, as far as coaching goes. I was able to work with the players in a lot of facets of the game. -- Ryne Sandberg
In the Negro Leagues, we'd play three games a day on the weekends. Then we'd ride the bus and travel to play the next day someplace else. You'd hang your shirt out the bus window to dry. -- Ray Dandridge
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
Baseball in Canada is like soccer in the U.S. It is growing, and some people are starting to gain interest. The way that there are Americans playing high-level soccer, there are Canadians breaking into the Major Leagues. -- Joey Votto
I never pay attention to errors in the Minor Leagues. Derek Jeter made 43 errors in the South Atlantic League, and I didn't care. With his hands and his range, I don't worry about that with Zimmerman. He is a good defensive player. -- Jim Bowden
In 1916, Universal Studios released the first filmed adaptation of Jules Verne's novel '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.' Georges Melies made a film by that name in 1907, but, unlike his earlier adaptations of Verne, Melies' version bears no resemblance to the book. -- Kage Baker
I enjoyed hitting in the Major Leagues more than in the Minor Leagues. I didn't want to tell anybody it was easier, because I didn't want to sound cocky. But Major League pitchers had better control, and most of them were around the plate. -- Willie McCovey
The Cubs gave me a chance to play. They signed me as a free agent and brought me to the Major Leagues. The first day I walked into Wrigley Field was one of the best days of my life. And I owe them an awful lot. -- Bruce Sutter
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
When you say you're a padre, people ask when did you become a parent. When you say you're a cardinal, they tell you to work hard because the next step is pope. But when you say you're a Dodger, everybody knows you're in the Major Leagues. -- Tommy Lasorda
You have to hit the fastball to play in the big leagues. -- Ted Williams
Sooner or later you learn that you belong in the big leagues, and that makes you calm down. -- Dennis Eckersley
I'd rather play in the major leagues and have some bad games than play consistently good ball in the minors. -- Simon Sinek
I was not bitter by not being allowed to play in the major leagues. I just said, 'The time has not come.' -- Buck Leonard
A ball player has to be kept hungry to become a big leaguer. That's why no boy from a rich family has ever made the big leagues. -- Joe DiMaggio
Sailed this day nineteen leagues, and determined to count less than the true number, that the crew might not be dismayed if the voyage should prove long. -- Christopher Columbus
I think the concept of seeking fame and fortune in women's football in the States is a bit idyllic. Look at all the teams in America that have folded, and the leagues. -- Hope Solo
I came into the game when I broke into the major leagues, the minimum salary was seven thousand dollars, and I'd have to go home in the wintertime and get a job. -- Nolan Ryan
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
Anybody with ability can play in the big leagues. But to be able to trick people year in and year out the way I did, I think that was a much greater feat. -- Bob Uecker
Hey, I think it's easy for guys to hit .300 and stay in the big leagues. Hit .200 and try to stick around as long as I did; I think it's a much greater accomplishment. That's hard. -- Bob Uecker
I only wish I could have played in the big leagues when I was young enough to show what I could do. When an offer was given to me to join up, I was too old, and I knew it. -- Buck Leonard
Some times you lose more than you win. It's about handling losses and trying to turn them into positives. You get out into the big leagues and there's a period of adjustment to be made. You've got to handle it. -- Lindsay Davenport
The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having accomplished nearly ten thousand leagues in three months and a half, a distance greater than the great circle of the earth. Where were we going now, and what was reserved for the future? -- Jules Verne
No matter how little we think anatomy should matter to one's social and political rights, surely we can't pretend biology doesn't matter in sports. Surely there's a reason we don't let adults play in the t-ball leagues, and a reason most women athletes want their own leagues. -- Alice Dreger
Although I may not know a lot about football, I do know a lot about food! As a result, not many people ask me to join their fantasy leagues, but they will come to me for suggestions on what to serve for guests for a weekly Sunday get-together. -- Marcus Samuelsson
Of course the Premier League is the most difficult league in the world because it's so even. I think you can't really compare other leagues with the Premier League. In the Premier League, every team can beat every team, and in football, that's something where you can have surprises. -- Mesut Ozil
My first season with Pittsburgh was 1969. We were still in the old NFL. My second year, we moved to the AFC when the leagues merged. I went to the Pro Bowl that season, and there must have been nine Raiders and nine Chiefs. I got to know all those guys. -- Joe Greene
The work that launched Snohetta into the architectural big leagues was their Oslo Opera House, which will certainly rank among the firm's highlights whatever else they may do. Although this is by any measure a triumph of city planning, the building itself is not quite a masterpiece, though very fine indeed. -- Martin Filler
Stood off and on during the night, determining not to come to anchor till morning, fearing to meet with shoals; continued our course in the morning; and as the island was found to be six or seven leagues distant, and the tide was against us, it was noon when we arrived there. -- Christopher Columbus
When people say 'American soccer,' they think of the U.S. national team. But American soccer also includes Major League Soccer, and until we have a league that produces players at the rate other leagues around the world do, I don't believe we'll ever get to where we want to be. -- Landon Donovan
I used to get made fun of in the minor leagues. I'd be 0 for 2, and then in my last at-bat I'd hit a chopper that wouldn't even reach the shortstop, and I'd get a hit out of it. The guys would be all over me, but a hit's a hit. I'll take 3,000 of 'em. -- Mike Trout
At nineteen I was pretty sure I was going to be a professional soccer player. At that time I played for one of the Norwegian premier leagues. But I tore ligaments in both knees, so I started studying business administration and economics and became a financial analyst, and I worked at a brokerage firm as a stockbroker. -- Jo Nesbo
What I found fascinating was just how quickly the best of the young Negro League players were drafted into the major leagues once Branch Rickey broke the color line by hiring Jackie Robinson. It was clear that all of the major league owners already knew the talents of the black ballplayers that they had refused to let into their league. -- Walter Dean Myers
I started in the lowest league in baseball, and I worked my way all the way up to Triple A and then to the big leagues. I never reached the level that I thought I would reach as a player. But that's the way it goes. So then I started from the bottom as a manager, and I worked my way up to managing the Dodgers for 20 years. -- Tommy Lasorda
I'm just enjoying playing baseball in the major leagues. -- Matt Holliday
I'm not in the big leagues just because I'm cute. -- Pedro Martinez
I really have never been nervous in the big leagues. -- Cliff Lee
A journey of a thousand leagues begins beneath one's feet. -- Laozi
There's apparently soccer leagues that they've set up with young Indian girls. -- Parminder Nagra
I perform in the major leagues of what I do. It's incredible. -- Darrell Hammond
If you're in the minor leagues, you want to get to the majors. -- Ryne Sandberg
As a 20th round pick nothing was handed to me in the minor leagues. -- Mike Lowell
The minor leagues were great. When you first sign, that is your big leagues. -- Brian Roberts
The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures. -- Joseph Addison
I'm a great bowler. I was in a couple of leagues as a kid. -- Matthew Morrison
We used to play a lot outdoors, not in leagues, but just in our spare time. -- Steve Yzerman
I still don't know how I got to the big leagues because I wasn't that good. -- Johnny Oates
It's up to the national associations and their leagues to limit the entry of foreign players. -- Sepp Blatter
I didn't know if I could make it to the big leagues without going through Triple-A. -- Matt Kemp
I was such a screwup when I got to the big leagues. I was a total idiot. -- Curt Schilling
After I got that hit off Satchel (Paige), I knew I was ready for the big leagues. -- Joe DiMaggio
Everybody's dream is to be in the big leagues, but only one in a million gets here. -- Jeremy Bonderman
Baseball in the Navy always was much more fun than it had been in the major leagues. -- Bob Feller
Winston Cup and the Busch Series are two totally different leagues. You get put in different situations. -- Adam Petty
Letting him manage in the major leagues is like sending Bo Derek through cellblock A without a bodyguard. -- Bill James
Well, my hand never fell off, and within no time, I was bowling competitively in leagues and tournaments. -- Joe Tex
Pitching in the big leagues is a dream. Preparing to pitch in the big leagues is a nightmare! -- Nolan Ryan
Sooner or later you learn that you belong in the big leagues, and that makes you calm down -- Dennis Eckersley
There's a lot more to playing in the big leagues in New York than just the baseball part. -- David Wright
And you learn [how to win] starting in the minor leagues, by winning day in and day out. -- Eric Byrnes
I had 12 years under my belt of baseball at the amateur level before I got to the big leagues. -- Tom Seaver
I just wanted to go play in the big leagues. But possibly playing for the Yankees is very special. -- Nick Johnson
Sailing to an island unknown Failing to find your way home you walk under a sea leagues beneath us -- Maggie Stiefvater
I was very nervous, excited, and happy to be given the opportunity to even be in the major leagues. -- Bengie Molina
I predict that many teams will go out of business and the size of the leagues will be greatly reduced. -- Will McDonough
I don't know how the 'Richie' started. My name is Richard, and they called me Dick in the minor leagues. -- Richie Allen
Just about every Latin American country has sent players to the big leagues, from the Dominican Republic to Costa Rica. -- Cheech Marin
Not many people get to the major leagues and succeed right away. There are some struggles. Everyone seems to struggle. -- George Brett
Maybe in the minor leagues. With my velocity, they would pick it up and say, 'Hey, you dropped something.' -- Jay Feaster
Well, I wanted to play twenty years in the major leagues. I never made it twenty though. I played nineteen. -- Bert Campaneris
In the big leagues everyone has ability. It always comes down to mind games. Who ever is more mentally strong-wins. -- Muhammad Ali
Strange is this alien despotism of Sleep which takes two persons lying in each other's arms & separates them leagues, continents,asunder. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I think I can play in the big leagues 10 or 15 years. But more important to me is winning-win, make the playoffs. -- Carlos Beltran
My biggest problem in the big leagues is that I can't figure out how to spend forty-three dollars in meal money. -- Andy Van Slyke
Everybody in the minor leagues - if you're a player, an announcer, whatever - wants to be in the big leagues. -- Ernie Harwell
I would love to get back to the big leagues as a coach, possibly a manager. I would love that opportunity. -- Gary Carter
I was a great base umpire, but I was the most mediocre plate umpire to ever come into the major leagues. -- Doug Harvey
Whether you're playing in the minor leagues or major-league divisions, wherever you are, it's always nice to be recognized as an All-Star. -- Gaby Sanchez
When you're a first-round pick and you get to the big leagues at 22, there's almost a sense that you've got to mature. -- Evan Longoria
I cannot consent to be led three or four hundred leagues out of my route, without its being by force of arms. -- Zebulon Pike
I couldn't believe I hit .342. I hit .333 one month in Triple-A. Otherwise, I hit .279 in the minor leagues. I'm proud of myself. -- Robinson Cano
On Platini's presidential watch... he has to balance all the leagues, all the dreams and needs of hundreds of clubs across his continent. -- Robert Hughes
I wasn't quite sure how a player got to the big leagues. As far as I knew, he was just there one day. -- Tommy Lasorda
Struck in the wet mire Four thousand leagues from the ninth buried city I thought of Troy, what we had built her for. -- Allen Tate
I started to crouch because that way I could guard the plate better, and I always wanted to hit .300 in the big leagues. -- Stan Musial
When I started to play consistently and produce consistently, that's when I knew that I could compete and do well in the big leagues. -- Lance Berkman
I took a huge risk leaving baseball, because I was predicted to play in the big leagues. I'm kind of a prototypical second baseman. -- Russell Wilson
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. -- George R. R. Martin
I never really worried about stats in the minor leagues. I was more concerned with getting better and bringing a positive attitude every day. -- Matt Holliday
I don't expect any red carpet to the big leagues. If the opportunity comes, then it comes. But I don't think I'm owed anything. -- Ryne Sandberg
It's one of the best leagues in Europe in football. Benfica in my opinion is one of the top 10 biggest clubs in the world. -- Freddy Adu
Here you would know, and enjoy, what prosperity will way of Washington. For a thousand leagues have nearly the same effect with a thousand years. -- Benjamin Franklin
The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small. -- Adlai E. Stevenson
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. -- Matt Kemp
I guess what really made me a Dodgers fan from the beginning was that the team had Jackie Robinson, the first 'Negro' in the major leagues. -- Cheech Marin
After 12 years in the minor leagues, I don't try out. Besides, uh, I don't believe in quantum physics when it comes to matters of the heart. -- Crash Davis
I'm sure Putnam is right that there's been a decline in certain kinds of organizations like bowling leagues. But people participate in communities in other ways. -- Peter L. Berger
Since I got to the big leagues, there's been a whole lot of Direct-TV sold in Jamestown. People like to keep up with the local boy. -- Darin Erstad
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As ships becalmed at eve, that lay With canvas drooping, side by side, Two towers of sail, at dawn of day Are scarce, long leagues apart, descried. -- Arthur Hugh Clough
The child is small, and he includes the man; the brain is narrow, and it harbours thought; the eye is but a point, and it covers leagues -- Alexandre Dumas-fils
It's not legal to gamble but it is legal to do fantasy leagues. To me it's an outlet where people can go on, play, and make some money. -- Slaine
I've put in 63 years now in the big leagues as a player, coach, manager. And now just being around these young guys, it keeps you going pretty good. -- Red Schoendienst

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