Top 100 Quotes About Leagues
#1. A journey of a thousand leagues begins beneath one's feet.
Laozi
#2. I would love to get back to the big leagues as a coach, possibly a manager. I would love that opportunity.
Gary Carter
#3. I would have been about seven years old when the formative years of my competitive football education began. I was playing in the local leagues around Manchester, playing against lads from tough areas who had been taught they had to fight for everything.
Gary Neville
#4. 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
#5. Sailing to an island unknown
Failing to find your way home
you walk under a sea
leagues beneath us
Maggie Stiefvater
#6. 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
#7. The journey of a thousand leagues starts with a single step" - Confucius
Alan Morgan
#8. What philosopher of the schoolroom, with the mental dowry of four summers, ever questions the power of the wand that opened the dark eyes of the beautiful princess, or subtracts a single inch from the stride of seven leagues?
Robert Aris Willmott
#9. Marlins Park is what I call my office in Miami, because I work for the Venezuelan Museum of Baseball and Hall of Fame. My job is to go to all the MLB stadiums and to talk to and collect articles from all the Venezuelan players in the big leagues and those Americans that played in Venezuela.
Juan Pablo Galavis
#10. I had a .200 lifetime batting average in the major leagues, which tied me with another sports great averaging 200 or better for a ten-year period: Don Carter, one of our top bowlers.
Bob Uecker
#11. If you seriously aspire to be a manager in the big leagues, there is a baseball 'book' that one must learn. Alongside that book, you must practice Spanish. Of 25 players on each roster, sometimes there are between eight and 15 players who speak Spanish.
Tony La Russa
#12. 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
#13. In the big leagues everyone has ability. It always comes down to mind games. Who ever is more mentally strong-wins.
Muhammad Ali
#14. I was very nervous, excited, and happy to be given the opportunity to even be in the major leagues.
Bengie Molina
#15. You know how you just don't like guys on the other team sometimes? It's funny because growing up I loved Roger (Clemens), loved to watch Roger pitch. Then when I was first in the big leagues and he was for the other team, I hated him.
Andy Pettitte
#16. 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
#17. And then what?" she says, pulling her hand from Grom's grasp. "Then Grom will mate with Mom and live happily ever after twenty thousand leagues under the sea?
Anna Banks
#18. 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
#19. Baseball in the Navy always was much more fun than it had been in the major leagues.
Bob Feller
#20. I always wanted to say I came out of the cornfields and got to the major leagues. That was my biggest thought. But now I can say I came out of the cornfields and got to the Hall of Fame.
Ray Dandridge
#21. I don't know how the 'Richie' started. My name is Richard, and they called me Dick in the minor leagues.
Richie Allen
#22. 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
#23. the shoulder I built up in Japan. Since I came to the major leagues, I couldn't train my own way, so now I've lost all those savings." Farrell
Terry Francona
#24. I was captain in Atletico at 19, playing in the same team as Demetrio Albertini, who won three Champions Leagues, and Sergi Barjuan from Barcelona, who had won everything, and they were 32, 33. I was a kid as captain, so I wasn't the real captain, just a kid learning from them.
Fernando Torres
#25. Just getting young kids excited about hockey, then they'll want to skate, they'll want to start joining junior leagues, they'll want to play in high school, etc., so we're trying to expand at all levels. That's good for the sport, and it's good for the Ducks long term.
Henry Samueli
#26. I really have never been nervous in the big leagues.
Cliff Lee
#28. Orcs, and talking trees, and leagues of grass, and galloping riders, and glittering caves, and white towers and golden halls, and battles, and tall ships sailing, all these passed before Sam's mind.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#29. I expected to be in the big leagues soon. I didn't know exactly how soon, but I wanted to be here soon, and I wanted to make a difference soon.
Mark Teixeira
#30. 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
#31. I looked up to my father when I was 7 and 8. I believed it was my calling to be in the big leagues. I'd been raised by a family that always told me I could do anything I wanted.
Barry Zito
#32. Everyone playing in the major leagues today owes a debt of gratitude to Mark Fidrych. He brought baseball back to the people. He made it popular again. He helped save the game." - Willie Horton
Doug Wilson
#33. If you're in the minor leagues, you want to get to the majors.
Ryne Sandberg
#34. The world is large when its weary leagues two loving hearts divide; But the world is small when your enemy is loose on the other side.
John Boyle O'Reilly
#35. 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
#36. Two women seldom grow intimate but at the expense of a third person; they make friendships as kings of old made leagues, who sacrificed some poor animal betwixt them, and commenced strict allies; so the ladies, after they have pulled some character to pieces, are from henceforth inviolable friends.
Alexander Pope
#37. 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
#38. 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
#39. You can make it to AAA ball on talent only. It's difficult but it can be done. But to make it to the big leagues, you HAVE to be coachable. You have to stay coachable.
Dale Murphy
#40. ABC wouldn't be a player in the news major leagues until the 1970s, when Roone Arledge brought to ABC News the energy and programming approach he had applied to ABC Sports.
Tom Brokaw
#41. I didn't know if I could make it to the big leagues without going through Triple-A.
Matt Kemp
#42. In baseball, I don't fraternize with players when it's time to hit. I'm preparing for the game. It's the most important time of the day. And I know if I don't hit, I won't have a job in the big leagues. That's why I tend to get very upset when people try to talk to me.
Albert Belle
#43. 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
#44. I cannot consent to be led three or four hundred leagues out of my route, without its being by force of arms.
Zebulon Pike
#45. There is something very unnatural and odious in a government a thousand leagues off. A whole government of our own choice, managed by persons whom we love, revere, and can confide in, has charms in it for which men will fight.
John Adams
#46. Letting him manage in the major leagues is like sending Bo Derek through cellblock A without a bodyguard.
Bill James
#47. A deed--who measures it? Who knows the limits of a mended wheel or reckons up the leagues it shall lay underfoot?--what burdens it shall bear?--whose destiny it shall await and serve?
Talbot Mundy
#48. Being called baby: like safaris and bowling leagues, a phenomenon she never thought she'd experience first hand.
Curtis Sittenfeld
#49. 11,340 miles, or 5,250 French leagues,
Jules Verne
#50. 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
#51. What happens when we acknowledge the sovereignty and power of God without trusting in His goodness and faithfulness? A pitcher who saw God's power behind his extremely unlikely rise to the big leagues wondered if, at any difficulty he encountered there, God might be taking his ability away.
Michael Lewis
#52. My high school coach was Ray O'Conner. He has coached a lot of players that have signed professional contracts, and many of those have gone on to play in the major leagues.
Robin Yount
#53. 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
#54. I knew I'd never make it back to the major leagues as a player. Lee MacPhail came to me and asked if I wanted to manage the Yankees' Fort Lauderdale club. I thought about it for a day or two and decided to take the job. That was the turning point. I knew it was what I wanted to do.
Bobby Cox
#55. 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
#56. And you learn [how to win] starting in the minor leagues, by winning day in and day out.
Eric Byrnes
#57. 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
#58. I've never seen radio as the minor leagues, where I'm just really preparing to be in the show that really counts, namely, television, which is, I think, what people often assume. I've never felt that way.
Terry Gross
#59. If it were not for respect for human opinions, I would not open my window to see the Bay of Naples for the first time, whilst I would go five hundred leagues to talk with a man of genius whom I had not seen.
Madame De Stael
#60. He explained that when he had gotten to Toledo, he had a meeting with himself. He said he realized he had become satisfied with being a starting pitcher in the big leagues, and with the money he was making.
H. A. Dorfman
#61. 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
#62. Infielder Craig Counsell played parts of sixteen years in the major leagues despite looking like a librarian,
Tim Kurkjian
#63. You have to hit the fastball to play in the big leagues.
Ted Williams
#64. There was nothing to keep him (Cal Ripken, Jr.) from being a star in the Major Leagues. That was inevitable.
Earl Weaver
#65. Maybe in the minor leagues. With my velocity, they would pick it up and say, 'Hey, you dropped something.'
Jay Feaster
#66. Everybody's dream is to be in the big leagues, but only one in a million gets here.
Jeremy Bonderman
#67. Even though my dad was a manager in the minor leagues, I still traveled around with him and saw it from the field out. Now, as an owner, you're kind of looking from the whole baseball activity from outside in, from a fan's perspective.
Cal Ripken Jr.
#68. I started in for the ball but I just couldn't get it. I should have caught it because I was used to catching everything on the sandlots. But they hit the ball a lot harder in the major leagues and I just couldn't reach the ball this time.
Al Kaline
#69. 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
#70. As a 20th round pick nothing was handed to me in the minor leagues.
Mike Lowell
#71. Well, my hand never fell off, and within no time, I was bowling competitively in leagues and tournaments.
Joe Tex
#72. I was glad to play in the Negro Leagues. I wouldn't trade it for anything in the world.
Leon Day
#73. 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
#74. It's up to the national associations and their leagues to limit the entry of foreign players.
Sepp Blatter
#75. Only be admonished by what you already see, not to strike leagues of friendship with cheap persons, where no friendship can be. Our impatience betrays us into rash and foolish alliances which no God attends.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#76. Well, it looks like the all-star balloting is about over, especially in the National and American Leagues.
Jerry Coleman
#77. Dear Mr. Kuhn, After twelve years in the major leagues, I do not feel that I am a piece of property to be bought and sold irrespective of my wishes
Curt Flood
#78. Shaquille and I kind of joke we were the Christopher Columbus of social media. We're kind of out on a boat by ourselves going through these uncharted waters. But it's become more understood, embraced and accepted, and now it's pretty much expected by fans for athletes, leagues and teams to be there.
Amy Jo Martin
#79. 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
#80. Before broadcasting for 50-some years, I did TV, played 10 years in the big leagues, won a world championship - and played a big part in that, too, letting the Cardinals inject me with hepatitis. Takes a big man to do that.
Bob Uecker
#81. 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
#82. 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
#83. 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
#84. 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
#85. 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
#86. 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
#87. Sooner or later you learn that you belong in the big leagues, and that makes you calm down.
Dennis Eckersley
#88. I just wanted to go play in the big leagues. But possibly playing for the Yankees is very special.
Nick Johnson
#89. I've been chased, shot, cut, beaten, and dragged a hundred leagues in the blink of an eye. I need a drink.
Jessica Khoury
#90. Leagues, till we were able to work no longer, being already spent with labour while we were in the ship.
Jonathan Swift
#91. 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
#92. 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
#93. My dad was part of the Oriole way. I think he was there 14 years in the minor leagues; I think seven of those years, they had the same people in place. So it was about continuity. It was about stability.
Cal Ripken Jr.
#94. I was branded a Negro in the States and had to act accordingly. They wouldn't even give me a chance in the big leagues because I was a Negro, yet they accepted every other nationality under the sun.
Willie Wells
#95. 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
#96. Marius and Cosette were in the dark in regard to each other. They did not speak, they did not bow, they were not acquainted; they saw each other; and, like the stars in the sky separated by millions of leagues, they lived by gazing upon each other.
Victor Hugo
#97. 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
#98. There's a lot of disrespect in the major leagues. I believe that the disrespect in the major leagues is at a high rate and is really bad for the gam
Bengie Molina
#99. Just about every Latin American country has sent players to the big leagues, from the Dominican Republic to Costa Rica.
Cheech Marin
#100. Homicide is the major leagues, the center ring, the show. It always has been ... It goes beyond academic degrees, specialized training or book learning, because all the theory in the world means nothing if you can't read the street.
David Simon
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