League Quotes
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My daddy died when I was two years old. My mother raised my two older brothers and me. And we couldn't have had a better situation. I mean, she was the - ran the concession stand at the Little League, and she was the first woman president of The Touchdown Club, the booster club for the high school football team. And so, I had a wonderful childhood.
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There is a double-standard between men and women. My father was a major league baseball player, and I grew up thinking I could have the same attitude on the field that he did. When I did that in real life, people thought I was a total bi-atch.
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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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We have only the Champions League in mind and we are focusing exclusively on Barcelona.
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If they beat us, they'll probably have the league pretty well in hand.
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I don't think it's good for the league.
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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.
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No one country has a team that hold a monopoly on the league like Maccabi does in Israel.
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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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It's not like one player out of 600 is playing with an illegal stick. The list of guys playing with illegal sticks is pretty known around the league. It's like speeding on the road. You're not allowed to speed, but sit beside the 55-mph sign on I-85 at night and put your radar on it. Many people will easily go over.
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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.
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I want to challenge myself. I'm desperate to play in the Premier League, and I want to play for England.
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We had started the tour hoping to make about 200 pounds each as the All Blacks (All Golds) had done the previous year. We got nothing and were lucky to get home!
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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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Liverpool have won everything but never a World Championship. I am sure in the future they will once again make the effort to win the tournament. They have had good rhythm in the Premier League this season.
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Every player dreams of a big league.
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League is much, much more physical than Union, and that's before anyone starts breaking the rules.
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As a non-Arsenal player I would say Ryan Giggs is my Premier League player of the decade because he has combined style with winning. Also I feel sorry he could never attend the World Cup, somewhere where people get a lot of compliments when they do well.
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It's a little payback. He was acting like he had 10 years in the league.
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There are so few people who can come into this league at 18 years old and be able to grasp what is going on and ... put in all the work and still produce and get so much better in the first three years. He's done the right things. I'm not so sure how I would have acted if I was given $100 million.
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I don't agree that we have to win the Champions League to be a success.
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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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I think it's going to continue spreading throughout the league because what players are finding is once they try them they really work. It's not just a fashion thing.
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To get up in there and by right around the top three or four in the league, I can say, 'Yes, I was one of those guys for one year that was able to save a bunch of games'.
