Top 38 Minor League Quotes
#1. I need to be out earning. I can make more in two hours at a card show than I did [as a minor-league manager] all year.
Mike Schmidt
#2. Athletes who take to the classroom naturally or are encouraged to focus on grades should be able to do well in the classroom. I believe the reason you go to college is to get your degree. It's not a minor league or an audition for the pros.
Rebecca Lobo
#3. 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.
Mike Quade
#4. Minor league umpires are evaluated in their respective leagues each year and rated numerically. This enables umpires to know where they stand and helps them make prudent career decisions.
Jim Evans
#5. I am involved in minor league baseball. I go around the country speaking to troubled youths, trying to help them understand that whatever path they choose, they'll need to really pay attention to it.
Gerry Cooney
#6. When there were just eight teams in each of the big leagues, I was always told, 'It's hard to come up, but it's just hard to stay in the big leagues.' That's because there's always somebody. The Cardinals had so many minor league clubs and had so many good ballplayers.
Red Schoendienst
#7. In 1962 I was named Minor League Player of the Year. It was my second season in the bigs.
Bob Uecker
#8. I stayed attached to baseball through the kids and through minor league baseball, and I'm very satisfied with the schedule it allows me to have, which means I'm home until my kids go off to college. I value that time.
Cal Ripken Jr.
#9. To convert college sports into professional sports would be tantamount to converting it into minor league sports. And we know that in the U.S., minor league sports aren't very successful either for fan support or for the fan experience.
Mark Emmert
#10. You know, I was once named Minor League Player of the Year ... unfortunately, I had been in the majors for two years at the time.
Bob Uecker
#11. Umpires, like players, are expected to show constant improvement each season and at each level. Inconsistent plate work and the inability to handle situations are probably the two biggest problems that minor league umpires face.
Jim Evans
#12. 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
#13. Instead,
she's as still
as a leaf-littered pond,
dark water evaporating,
waiting desperately for rain.
Emma Cameron
#14. Anyone interested in becoming a professional umpire and becoming eligible to work in the minor leagues must attend one of the two umpire schools sanctioned by Major League Baseball.
Jim Evans
#15. And you learn [how to win] starting in the minor leagues, by winning day in and day out.
Eric Byrnes
#16. Hate gets going, it goes round, it gets older and tighter and older and tighter, until it holds a person inside it like a fist holds a stick.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#17. 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
#18. More and more, I'd been having this feelings of zeroness. Of HERE-I-AM-AND-IT-JUST-DOESN'T-MATTER.
Jerry Stahl
#19. Nothing belonged to her. She had no home. With no home and no place and now freedom coming to her, she felt an unusual surge of courage.
Michelle Athy
#21. He [Vince Spadea] was about as down and out as you could see from a Top 20 player. Then to claw his way back through the minor leagues and do it the hard way where he wasn't young, wasn't getting wildcards, wasn't getting any help. I guess he decided he was just going to do it.
Andy Roddick
#22. As a 20th round pick nothing was handed to me in the minor leagues.
Mike Lowell
#23. Maybe in the minor leagues. With my velocity, they would pick it up and say, 'Hey, you dropped something.'
Jay Feaster
#25. Duplication and expressiveness take me a very long way into what I consider clean code, and improving dirty code with just these two things in mind can make a huge difference. There is, however, one other thing that I'm aware of doing, which is a bit harder to explain.
Robert C. Martin
#27. So let me get this straight."I rub my nose."You've brought me out to hunt and kill animals with my bare hands?"A smile ghosts his face. He scratches his cheek. "Well teeth, but basically, yes."Oh God. This is his idea of going out? No wonder he hasn't got a girlfriend.
Samantha Towle
#28. I went to college for a reason, and that was to skip the minor leagues. I spent a year in the minors and got my at-bats in, and then I felt like I was ready for the big leagues.
Mark Teixeira
#29. 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
#30. Us the ability to think with your mind, to hear with your ears, to see with your eyes, to speak with your mouth, to walk with your feet, to love with your heart. We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen.
Shane Claiborne
#31. The minor leagues were great. When you first sign, that is your big leagues.
Brian Roberts
#32. Ask 10 people about their family relationships and at least five of them will report an estrangement.
Amy Dickinson
#33. At best, the natural good-nature is edged with complaint or has changed into sullenness and gloom. And now and then it blazes forth in veiled but hot anger.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#34. 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
#35. It is in the nature of a group and its power to turn against independence, the property of individual strength.
Hannah Arendt
#36. We have numerous examples of perseverance in the scriptures, in secular history, and in our own experiences.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#37. I enjoy traveling and playing baseball.Other than that, the minor leagues are tough. The wear and tear on your body.. and it's tough to stay on a nutrition program because you can only eat what is within walking distance of the hotel and what the clubhouse provides.
Tyler Thornburg
#38. 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
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