Top 188 Leagues Quotes

Regions’ role in detecting and developing a raw talent is no secret, as they work so hard to produce top class players who go on to represent departments, then national team, and also play in different leagues of the world.

Spain and England have great leagues, and it would be nice to play there when the time comes.

Life is so fast. And I still remember when I came up to the big leagues and played as if it were yesterday. Time flies.

The pay in the minor leagues, I think it’s terrible, it’s disgusting, it’s exploitative.

The Varzea is kind of like street basketball in America or like the semi-professional football leagues in Europe. The pitches are all dirt, and you’re playing against the marmanjo – the ‘hard men.’ It’s known for being extremely physical.

You can say baseball’s fun, you’re in the big leagues, you get to come to a Major League field every day – and, yeah, that’s great. I love it.

On my youth teams, I always pretty good. I guess I just really started to play with some of my peers around age 8 or 9. We always battled and had fun playing in the rec leagues.

Group events like cricket, football and kabaddi have private leagues, which are all being played for money. There are no such events in athletics. Everything is run by the government bodies, there’s less money involved in our game, and we are not even paid as well as people in other sports.

If you’re in the minor leagues, you want to get to the majors.

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.

Too bad integration didn’t come sooner, because there were so many ballplayers that could have made the major leagues. That’s why, you look back, and – not to take away anything from Babe Ruth or some of those other guys – they didn’t play against the greatest ballplayers in the world.

I would love to get back to the big leagues as a coach, possibly a manager. I would love that opportunity.

Once you leave the minor leagues, you want to not come back. But it’s the path that I’m on, the journey that I’m on.

The NBA Schedule was made up by one man, Eddie Gottlieb, who had owned the Philadelphia Warriors. Eddie had a Buddha-like body and a crinkly smile, and because he had also been an owner in baseball’s old Negro leagues, he was known as the Mogul.

It’s a good feeling to see the kids try to make it, try to get to the big leagues. Everyone here has an opportunity to achieve his dream. I was lucky I was able to achieve my dream.

The Spanish and the English leagues are the strongest.

I was only picking up short-term contracts in the lower leagues. I thought that rather than the game kick me out, I’d be proactive about it.

As you can probably tell, the push to develop talent in Africa is personal. I grew up there. I played there. I know how much talent there is. We have to concentrate on building facilities, establishing successful leagues and finding investors to help young players.

The Premier League is a physical league if you want to compare it to other leagues.

There’s a moment when you come to a certain point, and if you make the leap you get to the big leagues. But if you back away, you get stuck.

Well, I wanted to play twenty years in the major leagues. I never made it twenty though. I played nineteen.

If you become their property it is much clearer for you, for the club, for everything. It was a great experience to play in three different teams, different leagues, different experiences, but if I wanted to improve I had to break this cycle and make my own way. That’s why I signed this contract to come to Stoke.

But the reason that women’s football is still unknown is because it’s not on television and not widely publicised for a wide majority of the leagues in the world.

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.

The European leagues have been there a long time, the coaches have been there, the clubs have been there, there’s history to the teams. There’s already that football support culture.

If I had the opportunity, I will ask every Nigerian kid to start his career in Germany. The structure they have in the Bundesliga is far from what is obtainable in other leagues.

Even though it feels like you are so far away from the big leagues, my love for the game kept me motivated to get through the hard times in the minors.

When I entered the pros, I was a young kid in the major leagues. I was 18 years old, right out of high school. I thought I knew everything, and I clearly didn’t.

If the cards just so happen to be drawn that I get called up to the big leagues and become ineligible to go to the Olympics, then so be it.

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.

I thought I was a pretty good shortstop, but I also wanted to play in the major leagues.

It seems easy, but to win three Champions Leagues in four years is incredible.

I am pretty sure that in the future the Chinese league will be one of the best leagues in the world.

I used to get made fun of in the minor leagues. I’d be 0 for 2, and then in my last at-bat I’d hit a chopper that wouldn’t even reach the shortstop, and I’d get a hit out of it. The guys would be all over me, but a hit’s a hit. I’ll take 3,000 of ’em.

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.

When you get to the big leagues, the talent pool is on such a level playing field, you have to find a way to separate yourself from incredibly talented guys. Especially when you go through the injuries that I’ve had, you come back, and you might not physically be able to do some of the things you used to do.

Because of the standing in society, because women’s basketball does not draw the interest that major professional sports leagues or men’s college basketball draw, Geno Auriemma is never going to be recited by the sports fan at-large as the greatest coach in history.

I base my game on work-rate and determination, that’s what has helped me work up the leagues in previous years.

I’m very, very amateur, which is funny because I’m not in the amateur leagues.

Not many people get to the major leagues and succeed right away. There are some struggles. Everyone seems to struggle.

As I look out there and see the culture of baseball, a lot of blacks and Latins, it’s given me a lot of joy to know that Jackie started that. If Jackie hadn’t come in ’47, me and Ron Santo wouldn’t have played in Double-A and all those years in the big leagues.

I’d rather play in the major leagues and have some bad games than play consistently good ball in the minors.

I had trouble with my temper all the way through the minor leagues.

By 2012, my game was shot. You’re sitting on your chair watching players’ leagues below you play shots you can’t. That destroyed me.

Any decent coach can make more than enough money just doing three or four T20 leagues.

I’m probably in the bottom 25 percent of athletes in the big leagues, just on pure athletic capability. But I’ve taught myself, through a lot of hard work and study and science, how to be really good at one specific thing.

I’ve played almost 22 years in the major leagues, and I’ve never sat on the bench.

I really hope that a lot of Georgian players will get recognition, and I can help them get out, play in the European leagues and the NBA. Basketball is in our blood.

It’s always special when you receive an award. Up here in the big leagues is special.

The Premier League is different to other leagues where I have played, and everybody knows it is very tough, but I will do my best to beat my own personal records – I’m very motivated.

The thing about international cricket is that you never really get to know the guys you play against. The T20 leagues allow you to actually know an individual.

With my quality, I feel I can bring a lot to a team that I will join. I want to show it in the big leagues: England, Italy, Spain, Germany, and France.

I was glad to play in the Negro Leagues. I wouldn’t trade it for anything in the world.

I hated baseball. I really didn’t like baseball at all until someone decided they were going to pay me… Every year I played in the big leagues, the day the season ended, I called my buddies in West Virginia and said, ‘I’ll be home tomorrow.’

In the Negro Leagues, I played every day.

It’s been a big flaw of ours in the soccer department that a lot of our best athletes go and play other sports. But I think young players have seen me, and others, go over to Europe and play in some of the best leagues – and MLS is improving so much, too.