League Quotes
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Wagner is a handful to stop for most teams in our league. He's 6-foot-3, but his arms seem like they go forever, and he knows how to use them.
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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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He kind of does it all for them. I think David Noel matches up well with him. A lot of guys in their league are probably bigger '4' men that can't guard him, but Dave is an incredible athlete.
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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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The substitution of the spots allocated to domestic leagues by annual wild cards will help us ensure that any candidates to join the league meet the necessary standards to do so.
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I didn't understand anything about playing baseball. I started playing, and it was enjoyable. Most of my life, I played with older people on my team, in my league. I learned a lot about life. Every day in my life, I learned something new from somebody.
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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.
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You see a lot of finesse players in our league who have a lot of success.
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The Champions League nights are special for the fans, too. You can feel it on the streets.
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How were friendship possible? In mutual devotedness to the good and true; otherwise impossible, except as armed neutrality or hollow commercial league. A man, be the heavens ever praised, is sufficient for himself; yet were ten men, united in love, capable of being and of doing what ten thousand singly would fail in. Infinite is the help man can yield to man.
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The Covenant of the League of Nations had envisaged sponsoring only the protection of certain categories of men: national minorities and populations of territories controlled by other countries.
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Major League Baseball's labor negotiations involve two paradoxes. The players' union's primary objective is to protect the revenues of a very few very rich owners - principally, the Yankees'. The owners' primary objective is a more egalitarian distribution of wealth. The union believes that unconstrained spending by the richest three teams pulls up all payrolls. Most owners believe that baseball's problems--competitive imbalance, the parlous financial conditions of many clubs--result from large and growing disparities of what are mistakenly treated as 'local' revenues.
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Spanish football is very good but every year the same teams win the league.
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For me, I want to improve, to play good football in a good league; the money is not the most important thing.
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Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.
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You have different levels of players. There's are Premier League, international and world-class levels. The world-class level is players at the peak of their career and there's only maybe 50 maximum in the whole world. Stevie moved from a Premier League player to an international player and then world class.
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I don't think a lot of players reach a Champions League final. If you look at how many goalkeepers in the league reach a Champions League final, I don't know.
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You obviously never know when you have a lot of changes to a team, but the new guys have come in here and they look great. They work hard. But the league is so competitive now so it's hard to predict.
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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.
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We have played a very good side, playing at the sort of level we are aspiring to. We need to come up a couple of levels ourselves because at the moment we are not there.
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I actually grew up watching a lot of these cartoons - a lot of the animated series. 'Batman: The Animated Series,' 'Justice League,' all the stuff that would come onto Cartoon Network.
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Everybody has a different opinion in this league and nobody is a prophet. I personally don't know who will win the league. I managed 1,600 games so, if Nani knows, he must be 1,600 times more intelligent than I am.
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After 20 years, there is no question that the EuroLeague is a solid project.
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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.
