League Quotes - Page 22

The novelist now usurps the chair of the educator, the pulpit of the preacher, the columns of the journalist. Yet his original purpose of entertaining may have been his highest purpose. (introduction to Gladiator, Book League Monthly, 1930)

I mean no disrespect to Scottish football, but the Premier League is the biggest stage and highest profile league of all.

Awards are great, as you get to meet up with friends and colleagues from your industry - a sort of reunion.

Georgie Porgie, he might buy the whole league, but he doesn't have enough money to buy fear to put in my heart.

The Players Association has on the table a demand which doesn't recognize the reality of our league's economics today. It's a very excessive and unrealistic demand.

The Saints are Louisiana's team and have been since the late '60s when my predecessor Pete Rozelle welcomed them to the league as New Orleans' team and Louisiana's team. Our focus continues to be on having the Saints in Louisiana.

Everyone knows that England are a far better team than their World Cup performance suggests. It's vital that we play with confidence and take the strength and competition of the engage Super League in to the Four Nations.

Our only objective at the start of the season was to stay in this league and we should do that. If we don't it'll be the Devon Loch of all Devon Lochs.

People don't realize we have these built-in seven-league boots. The body can go anywhere. It is physically capable of sustaining almost any kind of abuse, or any dream.

There's apparently soccer leagues that they've set up with young Indian girls.

And then when I went to stay in '68, I can honestly say that I was not focused on my career and on what it took to be a major league pitcher and to be a starting pitcher.

One day, one of my dreams is to someday get to do Nemo in '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.'

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

I always considered Ray Harryhausen's work so fine that it was way out of my league: in terms of realism and naturalism, in terms of animal movement.

Really, I just love doing comedy. Any form it takes is great, as long as I can keep doing it, you know? If I can do my show and 'The League' while also getting to do other bits, that's awesome.

I just wanted to go play in the big leagues. But possibly playing for the Yankees is very special.

The chance to be a general manager in major-league baseball and for a franchise as storied as this one, probably as storied as the Giants, is great.

A great guy who is no longer in the league right now who is retired, Kyle Vanden Bosch, I learned a lot from him, and I owe him a lot for my success in the NFL.

The players who said I am the dirtiest player in the league, it's ultimately their opinion, but I would love to hear from many of them on their true opinion on that.

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.

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

She'll be evaluated like any other Double-A umpire. Major League Baseball has never attempted to influence our decision

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.

Deliver infinite growth having your customers talk about you, exclaim you and tell their friends and colleagues about you.

It doesn't mean anything when we go back to Sydney and its round one and we're starting from scratch in the NRL. That's the one we really want.