League Quotes
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We played a whole season unbeaten but you did not see me every week jumping on the tables. Once it's over it's over and you do in the next one as well as you can. Plenty of managers who have won the Champions League will not be considered great managers.
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National League umpires wear inside chest protesters.
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My mom is always with me. When I made my major-league debut I told her, 'That's it. You don't work anymore. I'm going to work and take care of you.
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I think it's absolutely crucial to make the next step to run this league similar to all other professional leagues (with cost certainty).
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I want to win the Italian league. That's why I said no to Manchester United.
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I don't like to compare clubs or players from way back. It's different today. Your ballparks are better. In the days when I played, we had eight teams in each league. Now you have more.
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Coming into the league, that's definitely one of the goals I set for myself, ... The coolest part is that it's my second year and I'm going to be up there with the best players in the league. It's exciting.
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A League of Their Own' had some special meaning for me, I guess - it's about women joining together and being empowered, but also about sisters sticking together even when there's drama and struggles. I'm really close to my two sisters and my brother, so I liked that about it.
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Always people have counted me out since I got in the league. It never made me any difference. I kept myself around positive people, got a great support system and just kept at it.
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Did we miss out on a lot of targets? No. Was it disappointing? No.
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Anyone who's seen the Wigan [League] players stripped has been faced with the raw truth of the matter... No time for male modelling, and even Princess Di would think twice about getting too close to that lot.
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Last year I mostly only pitched bullpens and batting practice. I went into the season without pitching in a big league game. But I was feeling great. So we're trying to keep the same routine here.
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She knows, now, absolutely, hearing the white noise that is London, that Damien's theory of jet lag is correct: that her mortal soul is leagues behind her, being reeled in on some ghostly umbilical down the vanished wake of the plane that brought her here, hundreds of thousands of feet above the Atlantic. Souls can't move that quickly, and are left behind, and must be awaited, upon arrival, like lost luggage.
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He was the perfect guy for the times. He stabilized this league and he kept labor peace and he kept the sport No. 1.
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I was raised as an upper-class WASP in New England, and there was this old tradition there that everyone would simply be guided into the right way after Ivy League college and onward and upward. And it rejected me, I rejected it, and I ended up as a kind of refugee, really.
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I liked playing with David Eckstein (former Angels shortstop). I'm not talking about players with top skills, I'm sure there were players with way more skill than him, but there were very few people in the league that had the heart like him.
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It was really important to me. It would have been my first major league complete game. It didn't happen and I'm upset that the team lost.
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Playing in a competition like the Champions League is important for a player; it makes you feel much more of a professional in this sport.
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Nobody will finish above us in the league. It wouldn't surprise me if we were to go unbeaten for the whole of the season. The challenge now is to dominate English football for a long time.
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When I came into the league in '85, the regimen for working out was just basic, and as I got older it became more about the core and keeping your body in balance.
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I wanted to be a part of something special and contributing to the launch of a new league was very exciting to me.
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St George won 11 premierships with one Raper, imagine how Canterbury will go with 13.
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True love knows no league.
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I think as a veteran player, in general, you should feel that sense of responsibility to try to lead these guys to becoming good pros. You want the league to be in good hands, and you want these guys to become great NFL players and then pass it along to the next generation. You can only lead by example, and that's pretty much what I'm trying to do.
