For all that Michael Jordan could run, jump and entertain, he is best known for one thing: He won. If you want to be a great player in this league, you have to focus on one thing – the bottom line, which is winning.
I’m happy in the Premier League.
When I played Little League, I looked up to the big leaguers, too, and collected their baseball cards.
There are always a lot of guys that have potential, but to make it a certain amount of years in the league, it takes more than just potential. You have to be professional, you have to be a good teammate, do things the right way. So now, any chance I get to talk to younger guys, I do it.
I was never tempted by the Premier League. It’s simply a personal opinion.
I can’t think of any NBA team over the last few years that lost three starters. And we replaced them basically with three guys who really haven’t played in this league.
My lord, I will tell you what the case was. I was coming up within a league of the Dutchman, and some of my men were making a mutiny about taking her, and my gunner told the people he could put the captain in a way to take the ship, and be safe.
I think everybody is under the impression that everyone wants to work in the Premier League. I want to work at the top level like everyone else, but it doesn’t mean that’s the Premier League.
Yes, I always say that we’re a National League band. What I mean is, if you play an instrument, you have to sing. So I always call our drummer up. Even the drummer has to take a turn on the microphone.
Something interesting has happened over the last 10 years in the Premier League. Players who once would have been discarded as expensive and too old have become important parts of title-winning squads.
The Arena League is the best thing that could have happened to me because I get to run the whole process. I’m seeing not only the football side but the business side.
With Ronaldo in the league, people will be passionate again about Serie A.
This ship was a league from us, and some of the men would have taken her, and I would not consent to it, and this Moore said I always hindered them making their fortunes. Was that not the reason I struck him? Was there a mutiny on board?
I just felt all along that if I could get a certain amount of years in the league, have great years and still have my health when I walked away, that would be great.
I’ve got lots of friends who are musicians, and there is a fair proportion of broken marriages and relationships as a result. You are on the move all the time. It’s difficult if you have kids, and it’s hard to make money unless you are in the premier league.
It’s difficult in the Premier League.
With me, and people know this, since I’ve gotten to the league the first day I’ve always been about trying to help my team win, trying to play for my teammates. That’s just the way that I am.
If the League were real, today, they’d most likely be sued by every person they ever saved. They’d be subpoenaed by every authority in every jurisdiction imaginable; hearings upon hearings. There’d be waves of accolades followed by tsunamis of boos from social media.
Guys like Todd Bridges never overcame being a child star. You can’t have any big failures. I’ve always felt regular. I played organized ball at the rec league. At 13, they told me I sold 3 million copies. I didn’t know what that meant.
What we have tried to instill across the league through ownership and management is that we stand for inclusiveness and to judge somebody on the merits.
I am involved in minor league baseball. I go around the country speaking to troubled youths, trying to help them understand that whatever path they choose, they’ll need to really pay attention to it.
You play 20 games, you have one bad game, I think any team in this league will live with that.
I feel blessed that I had an opportunity to be in the Big Ten for four years as a player and be in the Big Ten as a coach for eight years. To get 12 years in a conference like the Big Ten – it’s a first-class league with great towns and great fans.
The intensity of the Premier League is incredible. The levels of fitness you have to reach just to survive in it is absurd.
One time I was doing a speech to a group of kids, and just before I get there, I see this little kid crying. I found out they just lost a game, and he was the losing pitcher. I went over there, put my arm around him, and said, ‘What are you crying for? When major league players lose, they don’t cry.’
We want to add an American League pennant… and to bring the World Series to Arlington.
Being in the Premier League would be a dream come true.
We, as a league, we have not in any way changed our desire to do everything we can to make it safe, make it safe as to head injury. We hope and will support any data that would give us more insight into any short- and long-term consequences. We would support that.
Peyton Manning is doing things that I think no other quarterback in the history of the league has done at the line of scrimmage… I just think they are a team right now that’s got a real chance to run the table.
I hope Dortmund can reach the final of the Champions League again… why not?
My dad has kind of been the standard for me, he played 16 years in the league, and since I’ve been in the league, every year that I go through and deal with the scratches, the bumps and bruises, just the grind that it is to go through one NBA season.
You have to choose whether to take the money or follow your own ambitions, playing in the best league in the world and winning titles.
The sublimated idealism of the Enlightenment, the spirit of the League of Nations and of the United Nations Charter have not proved strong enough to control the aggressive dynamism of nationalism.
I regard myself as an actress but, obviously, not in the Dame Judi Dench league. That isn’t a problem because I don’t think we are ever likely to be up for the same part!
The Champions League is so difficult, It’s like a lottery: sometimes you’re just unlucky.
I am a National Football League player of American Samoan heritage. Because of my status as a professional athlete, I have been blessed to play a role in educating players and fans about the culture and history of America’s southernmost territory.
I was an umpire at little league softball games. I only lasted a few games because I wasn’t one hundred percent clear on all the rules.
I grew up on the East Coast and was going to go to an Ivy League School, but at the last minute I decided to be a hippy. It was the protest movements on the war, peace movements were going on at our university. It was a fantastic time.
The Premier League is an extremely difficult competition.
I remember my first time in the Champions League. I was 18, and it was Arsenal against Milan at The Emirates. The night before, I remember I put my music on my iPod. I was lying in bed, and I listened to the Champions League music. That was my Champions League debut, my first time. It was beautiful.
When I was 14 or 15, I was a really good volleyball player, so I thought, ‘Well, maybe I’ll just get a scholarship to an Ivy League school through volleyball.’ Then I quit when I decided to focus on theater.
If the Indy Racing League didn’t have the Indianapolis 500, do you think it would have lasted more than six months? No chance.
In 1981, at age 31, I was voted the best player in basketball, and the most valuable player in the league.
And then when I went to stay in ’68, I can honestly say that I was not focused on my career and on what it took to be a major league pitcher and to be a starting pitcher.
You’ve got a league with a couple thousand players or so depending on the time of year. Then you have 10 or more very high profile stories that are terrible stories and things that have happened.
I think the outside world can learn a lot about how to act by watching a major league clubhouse. I don’t think you want to do everything the same, but there’s a lot of things I think people could learn from.
It’s just about keeping the momentum going, and it doesn’t matter whether it’s Champions League or Premier League or whatever trophy you’re going for, you’ve got to focus on the opponent that lies ahead.
When I watched the Premier League on the telly, I didn’t expect it to be that hard. The opponents are all physically strong, real athletes. It wasn’t like that in Germany. You must be prepared for it. But I prepared myself for it.
I knew my worth. I knew I could be one of the best 2-guards in the league. I’m not going to be bashful about it anymore.
That’s why the Kanye Wests and the Drakes are just in a different league, because they have the ability to be vulnerable and open.
San Antonio is an ideal market for Major League Soccer. It’s time that we put our best foot forward.
Every team has to understand what their ambitions are. If their ambitions are to fight for the title or win the Champions League, you must buy expensive players. Otherwise, you continue to stay in your level. It’s simple.
I feel like I’ve got a lot of football things I need to work on to have that success that I want to have in this league.
I was nicknamed Skeeter in Little League because I was small and fast, like a mosquito flying across the outfield.
Many players in the French squad play in the Premier League or have played in the Premier League, so I knew about the level.
