Best League Quotes

#1. I think La Liga is the best league in the world.

Gareth Bale

#2. 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 it.

Mesut Ozil

#3. 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 I could do.

Claudio Reyna

#4. It's just the way we've chosen to deal with it. What's there to talk about The reality is that we're undermanned in a lot of areas. We're in the best league in the country. We don't have to read the paper to know that all the teams we play are quality teams.

Andy Kennedy

#5. Major League Baseball is the best league in the world, full of capable hitters up and down every single lineup.

Ron Darling

#6. The NHL is the best league in the world, but it's a grind. You sometimes forget, especially if you are losing, or missing the playoffs ... how fun this game can be.

Thomas Vanek

#7. Nobody seems to appreciate what an incredible player Wilt was," Russell said at 1997 All-Star Game when the league named and honored its 50 greatest players. "He was the best player of all time because he dominated the floor like nobody else ever could. To be that big and that athletic was special.

Wilt Chamberlain

#8. Excluding nobody, I'm the best player in the National Football League.

Randy Moss

#9. I watched Arsenal in the Champions League the other week playing some of the best football I've ever seen and yet they couldn't have scored in a brothel with two grand in their pockets!

Ian Holloway

#10. I remember when I first got into the league, I thought how it would be nice to have a year when you were the best. That means your team is probably winning.

Peyton Manning

#11. You're always facing the top defenders in this league. To go out there and do your best, that's all you can ask for.

D'Brickashaw Ferguson

#12. On paper we might be the best team in the league. We've got great players on this team who accomplished so much. We just couldn't put it together.

Amar'e Stoudemire

#13. I was the best guy, you know, all through Little League and Pop Warner and that kind of stuff. But when I went to high school, I was undersized. I didn't grow. I was behind the whole puberty cycle. I didn't like high school.

Pete Carroll

#14. I dont want to return to France, because Ive won everything there - league title, cup, best player, best young player

Eden Hazard

#15. The Arena League is the best thing that could have happened to me because I get to run the whole process. I'm seeing not only the football side but the business side.

John Elway

#16. When we move the ball, we're one of the best teams in the league.

Tyson Chandler

#17. I'm looking forward to meeting my new team-mates and to be playing for Arsenal in the Premier League and Champions League. I will give my best to Arsenal and want to make all the supporters happy.

Alexis Sanchez

#18. My desire at Liverpool was to help get the club playing in the elite because they had been five years without it. We used to talk about it in the dressing room. If Liverpool are not in the Champions League, it is difficult to get the best players to come to the club.

Luis Suarez

#19. Brandon Rush is not just one of the best freshmen in the league, he's one of the best players.

Kelvin Sampson

#20. By far, the best moment of my big league career was when I caught the last out at the World Series.

Cal Ripken Jr.

#21. You can be the best person in the league but if you don't win championships, something's missing.

Terrell Davis

#22. You have to believe you're great. You have to have an air about you. My success wasn't because I was a great talent, but because I wanted it more than anybody else. Every minute I step on that field, I want to prove I'm the best player in the league.

Brett Favre

#23. The concept of patriotism is not incompatible with that of humanity; on the contrary, let me state emphatically that he who best serves pacifism serves patriotism best. The nation is and can be no more than the vital basic unit of any international league.

Leon Bourgeois

#24. Ed (Runge), you're the second best umpire in the league. The other twenty-three are tied for first.

Carl Yastrzemski

#25. I'd have to say Thierry Henry. From the ages of ten to 16, watching him in the Premier League was amazing and he scored all different types of goals - free-kicks, volleys, left foot, right foot. He was entertaining. He's probably the best centre-forward, I think, to play in the Premier League.

Wayne Rooney

#26. I think sports are very beneficial in the fight against obesity. I remember playing little league - I was the best person on the pitch by a long shot. It was only last weekend actually, I think I have some photos of it if you're interested.

Zach Braff

#27. I always wanted to be a player, but I never had the talent to make the big leagues. So I did the next best thing: I bought a team.

Charlie Finley

#28. He's the best centre in the game I think, definitely the best in the Super League by far.

Thomas Leuluai

#29. 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.

Josh Beckett

#30. For me, Marouane Fellaini has been one of the best midfielders in the Premier League over the last few seasons. If he continues to improve at United, we'll have a really good player on our hands.

David Moyes

#31. This is God's way of saying you've achieved so much, here's your chance to play against the world's best players. There's got to be some reason behind it. It has to be God. It's been created because of Him and the belief the boys have in Him.

Jarryd Hayne

#32. There's a bias on hiring the best engineers wherever they come from. It does seem like a lot of the non-engineering execs come from Ivy League schools, as is true in much of corporate America and government.

Ken Auletta

#33. In 1981, at age 31, I was voted the best player in basketball, and the most valuable player in the league.

Julius Erving

#34. The best all-around [running] back in the league is Jamaal Charles. He has the ability to hit a homerun from anywhere.

LaDainian Tomlinson

#35. The best player I ever played against is Thierry Henry. He was something else; i've played against Rooney and Ronaldo and players like that but i think he was the best player ever to play in the Premier League

Jamie Carragher

#36. I do feel that I have unfinished business in the Premier League and now is the right time to return. I considered all the other offers very carefully and I firmly believe that Chelsea is the best choice. They match my footballing ambitions with their hunger and desire to win trophies.

Cesc Fabregas

#37. A player should be disparaged if he gives less than his all, if he doesn't give 100%, no matter what shirt he's wearing. Whether it's your national team, your club, or little league. Yes, there are friendly matches, recreational ones, and so on, but sport in its essence is about giving your best.

Rabih Alameddine

#38. Cristiano Ronaldo has done massive things in both the Premier League and in the Champions League, but Messi is the best though and I am convinced that next year he will win the Ballon d'Or.

Yaya Toure

#39. I've always been privileged to play for Coach Belichick, who I've always said is the best coach in the history of the league.

Tom Brady

#40. As a mentalist, perhaps only Orson Wells was in Jason's league. After a career in television, Randal has my endorsement. He's simply the best I've ever seen!

Merv Griffin

#41. If I had a Paul Scholes in my team, everything would be around him. At Manchester United, they saw it like that, but I think Paul Scholes is one of the best I've played against in this league, and seen anywhere.

Thierry Henry

#42. I'd like to think that on a lot of teams, I'd be a No. 1. The thing I do know is that every time I take the mound, in my mind I'm the best pitcher in the league.

Adam Wainwright

#43. The IPL, involving the socialist principle of a salary cap and the protectionist mechanism of quotas, is not perhaps the best example of a market left flourishingly to its own devices and dynamics.

Gideon Haigh

#44. England is a very strong league, with three or four of the best teams in Europe, but, if I had played there, I would have destroyed it, like I have everywhere else.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

#45. We're going to be the best in the league at something. We're deep in anthem singers.

Barry Trotz

#46. I want to keep growing. I should take a couple steps every year if I want to be one of the best players in the league.

Ilya Kovalchuk

#47. I'm honored and excited to be chosen to lead MLSE, a world-class sports and entertainment organization with the major league teams, premier facilities and employee team that rank with the very best across North America and internationally.

Tim Leiweke

#48. I had the best sex of my life with a girl I had thought was way out of my league and in love with my dead brother. Yeah, Nash was probably right, if anybody could put up with all the crazy I was rocking I should probably lock her in quick because even I could see how seriously screwed up I am.

Jay Crownover

#49. All of us at Juventus agreed Manchester United were the best side we met in the Champions League. They have so many talented young players and can only get better and better. Giggs is truly world class

Zinedine Zidane

#50. English players are as easy to coach. The problem is that the Premier League has the best players in the world, and statistically not all of them can be born in England. But we don't have enough English players: we are working very hard on it.

Arsene Wenger

#51. The Florida State League was considered the top A-league back then. You played in the spring training parks of major league teams, traveled throughout some great cities in Florida, and the pay was the best in A-ball.

Jim Evans

#52. I was playing in the league when Ray Guy was playing in the league. He was the best kicker I've ever seen. He could bullet that ball 70 yards.

Gale Sayers

#53. If you write in the paper 'Lee stinks,' that's not going to affect me. I'll just laugh. And if you write 'Derrek Lee is the best player in the league,' that won't affect me either. I'll laugh.

Derrek Lee

#54. Leaving my family behind was very scary. I had to grow up quick. But being so young and paying in this league [the WNBA], I'm glad I did it because it's been the best experience in my life.

Lauren Jackson

#55. I want to be the top player in the league, and I want to bring my game to another level. I want to play against the opposition's best players-and I want to beat them.

Jarome Iginla

#56. Why can't I be MVP of the league? Why can't I be the best player in the league?

Derrick Rose

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

Joe Garagiola

#58. I like playing against LeBron more than anybody else in the league. He brings out the best in me, and I bring out the best in him.

Dwyane Wade

#59. For me, Paul Scholes has been the best midfield player in the Premier League. By a mile. He has the lot. He scores and creates goals, he can pass the ball, he can head it, and rounds all this off with a competitive streak.

Alan Shearer

#60. The best recommendation for an umpire in the old days was: He licked somebody in the Three-I League. He ought to do.

Ty Cobb

#61. The good quarterbacks in this league, if you're not playing your best, sometimes will win a game for you

Kerry Rhodes

#62. How could it be little me had the power to be The best 'B' in the league yeah inevitably

Nicki Minaj

#63. MVP is the best player in the league. I think that's too big for me. When people call me the MVP, I'm a little surprised by that.

Rafael Soriano

#64. Yes, Manchester United are the best team in England, but you have to ask how good has the Premier League been since I left? If I was at a top club in England I think the title race might have been a lot closer this year.

Jose Mourinho

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

Joe Dumars

#66. When you are nominated for the best player in Europe, the Ballon d'Or, playing in the Champions League, there is so much pressure. You don't know what will happen. This pressure is inside you - you always have it.

Cristiano Ronaldo

#67. My husband and Charlie Sheen played Little League together. They've always been best friends.

Heather Langenkamp

#68. I want to help Manchester United win the Premier League and become the best player in the world.

Adnan

#69. I feel like I'm the best point guard in the league.

Deron Williams

#70. Holland I think is the best school to learn football. I think its a great league for that because it's not the strongest league in Europe.

Rafael Van Der Vaart

#71. The best example of how impossible it will be for Major League Baseball to crack down on steroids is the fact that baseball and the media are still talking about the problem as 'steroids.'

Malcolm Gladwell

#72. We had a strong relationship with Walter Brown, and felt that he was the best owner in the league.

Bob Cousy

#73. San Antonio is an ideal market for Major League Soccer. It's time that we put our best foot forward.

Julian Castro

#74. Of course, the best thing, if you play in the Premier League, you can always develop further as a player, and you are playing against the best players. You are also playing game after game all the time, two or three games a week.

Mesut Ozil