Everybody wants the Hollywood glamour of the Premier League.
I’m a great player; I’m one of the best defensive ends in the league, and I honestly think that.
My first couple of years in the league left me very unstable. I had some times where I played well, and I had some times were I really did not get the opportunity. After Rick Pitino gave up on me my first year, people were like, ‘He can’t play.’ So I had to get over that hump.
It would be a great adventure for Leicester to be in the Champions League.
The first condition of success for the League of Nations is, therefore, a firm understanding between the British Empire and the United States of America and France and Italy that there will be no competitive building up of fleets or armies between them.
I think there’s more of opportunity to win games in the National League than the American League because there are more decisions to make.
That is one of my greatest strengths. I am not afraid to face challenges or any matchup in the league.
If you want to win the Champions League, you have to have talent, good players, luck in the draw, and, in certain moments, the right referee.
I think the National Football League needs a new union. The heavyweights of this union are not heavyweights enough.
I’ve shown people what I can do and want to establish myself as a Premier League player.
I was playing little league baseball when Bruce Jenner was winning the gold, but I don’t think I was really paying attention at that time. It wasn’t until 1980 – I think I was 12 years old – that I thought, ‘Wow that’s what I want to do. I want to be on the Olympic team.’
I had no experience with broadcasting basketball games, so I took a tape recorder and went to a playground where there was a summer league, and I stood up in the top of the stands and I called the game.
When I started playing professionally, it made me realize that I had a voice in the league, one that gave me the chance to share a different side of our day-to-day life and the things that were happening on and off the court.
In London, you’ll be walking around and, ‘Oh, there’s the ground.’ Every area of the city has a Premier League club. They all survive; they all exist with enough money, and that’s good.
Some of my closest friends, the England lads, have played in the Champions League, so it’s a big thing to be there as well.
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.
I sort of kept my hand in writing and went to work for the Sierra Club in ’52, walked the plank there in ’69, founded Friends of the Earth and the League of Conservation Voters after that.
The League is very well when sparrows shout, but no good at all when eagles fall out.
There were a lot of places, including Los Angeles, that didn’t have major league baseball. There were other really large cities that had no major league teams, but at least they had college football.
I think Aquaman feels – and deservedly so – like an A-list, premier DC hero. I hope that carries on; it certainly will carry over to Justice League.
Everyone today is like, ‘Shailene, you’re getting so much buzz. How does the feel?’ It’s the most odd question because it’s like asking a kid who got into Cornell how it feels to be the top of your class at one of the Ivy League schools. How do you answer that? You just go, ‘I don’t know.’
I started off playing rugby league as well as union. I switched between fly-half and wing, but I preferred to play fly-half. I liked to be at the heart of everything. I liked to be involved.
If the Ivy League was the breeding ground for the elites of the American Century, Stanford is the farm system for Silicon Valley.
My dreams do not end with playing Major League Baseball.
I was born with this talent, so I’ve just worked hard, and now it’s gone well for me. But I’m not going to lie – I didn’t expect to be top of the Premier League.
When I started watching matches, it was those of Marseille. After that, it was Lyon. I went to see them all the time in the league or the Champions League with my dad.
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.
The people at the top of the league think they need to rein me in so I don’t become another Michael Jordan, somebody they aren’t able to mold and shape and make their puppet.
Umpires, like players, are expected to show constant improvement each season and at each level. Inconsistent plate work and the inability to handle situations are probably the two biggest problems that minor league umpires face.
We have got a problem winning games in the league. We have to educate ourselves and maybe we have to not play the lovely football that we have been.
Our parents helped us, or we wouldn’t be here. Lacy Van Zant and my mother used to sign for amps or loan us money to get to the gig or take us in their car. It’s just like little sports guys – Little League and football players – whose parents help them. That’s why they get good.
When I first got into this league, I knew a lot. But I made myself better by listening and working hard.
After I made it to the NBA, I said that I didn’t want to be the last player from Africa. After my rookie year, I went to the league and talked about this, and they embraced my idea and started conducting basketball clinics in Africa, and that’s when I knew I wouldn’t be the last African.
My first obsession was actually sports. I was a very good handball goalkeeper. With special permission, I played in the premier league in Germany before I was even old enough.
I didn’t have to be somebody I wasn’t coming into the league. I had a great foundation from my family.
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.
Big league defense is going to get outs most times.
I think the Commissioner is taking the steps necessary to give the game back to the players and the fans and hopefully take the league to the next level.
When I first came in the league, I thought Jack Clark and Steve Garvey were big. Then all of sudden it seemed like everyone was that big.
It is a commonplace that the League of Nations is not yet-what its most enthusiastic protagonists intended it to be.
I think the Chinese are wise. After all, they know the U.S. is in a very different league than Russia. The U.S. is the major power in the world, and the US-China relationship… is very important to global stability, to sustain global economic growth.
Little did we know then that CNN would become the big league.
I can remember going to see the minor league Orioles. Until I was 15 years old, we’d go down with 3,000 people to watch them play the Syracuse Chiefs or the Jersey City Little Giants. That’s what passed for Baltimore sports.
The Champions League is the one thing missing from my career. When I look at the history of the competition and the people that have taken part, the top, top players have all won it. For many, it is why they have been regarded as top players.
Sometimes when I hear commentating, it’s sickening. People who never played the game, people who never played in the league have an opinion, and that’s all it is. You are here to educate the watcher or the viewer. Sometimes it comes off as personal.
There are guys on different teams across the league who are bench guys, and guys who that – that’s their role, to be on the bench encouraging guys to play hard and get good minutes.
I could lose every Old Firm game I go into and still win the league.
Let peace, descending from her native heaven, bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations; and plenty, in league with commerce, scatter blessings from her copious hand!
The Leicester story is great for the game in England. It’s great for the appreciation of the Premier League.
Every year, I strive to be the best defensive player in the league.
The interesting thing is that it seems like George W. Bush would have been happy being the president of anything. He could have been president of Major League Baseball.
It is hard to say no to PSG – as with all teams capable of winning the Champions League, There is always uncertainty in football.
The Premier League is not my goal but a childhood dream. It is a dream that could be fulfilled.
I wish I could play little league now. I’d be way better than before.
I grew up watching sci-fi and Justice League and all those kinds of things.
Just think of what Woodrow Wilson stood for: he stood for world government. He wanted an early United Nations, League of Nations. But it was the conservatives, Republicans, that stood up against him.
I have a good team around me and I don’t feel anything is anywhere near out of my league.
There’s not much you can complain about – you’re a Major League Baseball player; you’re getting paid to play a game. People want to be you, wish they could do what you do. There are some complaints here and there, but there really aren’t any significant ones.
