Quotes About League

You see a lot of finesse players in our league who have a lot of success.

I could lose every Old Firm game I go into and still win the league.

Whatever fitness I have, I still feel that I'm one of the best in the league, I don't care how fit I am, I believe in my ability.

Ligue 1 is a very physical league. In each team, there are very fast players, dangerous wide men with plenty of speed and endurance.

When I was young, I used to wear a lot of wigs, and I was running on stage at a gig and tripped over and it fell off. It was in the 1970s, and Swansea were doing really well in the league, and most of the team were there. I almost died, but I picked it up, put it back on my head and carried on.

It's true that Tottenham tempted me because it was a young team which was third in the league.

This means that the search for a formula of European cooperation in connection with the League of Nations, far from weakening the authority of this latter must and can only tend to strengthen it, for it is closely connected with its aims.

They were fighting for the honour of the Eldon League, a student dining club whose motto was 'forwards into the past', to determine its position on the European Community.

The combatants, 'monocled and bespatted', mounted a horse-drawn carriage and rode in triumph down Constitution Hill, the Mall and Trafalgar Square. Speaking as imperial grand prior of the League, Hamilton reportedly told journalists that the organisation 'views with unabashed antipathy all forms of democracy, especially the referendum'. 'We oppose anything that is common, whether it be consultation of the common people or the Common Market.

It happened, you see, after the war, when I saw people making money while the others were dying in the trenches. You saw it and you couldn't do anything about it. Then later I was at the League of Nations, and there I saw the light. I really saw the world was ruled by the Golden Calf, by Mammon! Oh, no kidding! Implacably. Social consciousness certainly came to me late.

To win this league, the toughest league in the country, and to be outright champs is a tribute to their effort. It's a great lesson in life for our guys. It shows anything is possible.

The equality among all members of the League, which is provided in the statutes giving each state only one vote, cannot of course abolish the actual material inequality of the powers concerned.

A lot of players and pundits can be talking the Scottish league down and it's not until players and coaches actually experience it they start respecting it.

The Copa del Rey is a different competition. It is football in its purest form and is different from the continuity of the league.

Sometimes those labels that the league puts on players aren't right.

When I was in college there was a girls' flag football league. The girls were extremely aggressive.

I always had this in my head that I could play in this league, that I'm good enough... but of course you have to prove that on the floor.

It's a different animal when you're in the NBA. You come in this league and you've got 7-footers who play 7 foot who are going to protect that rim come hell or high water.

One of our problems is the culture of Brazil which focuses on men's football. Of course we would like to change that. Maybe one day we will have a strong competitive league instead of our women footballers always having to play abroad.

When you first come in the league as a big man, they tell you to be physical down there. No layups, all that kind of stuff. So you have to buy into it, because you think it's going to get you more playing time. But it really just gets you more foul trouble.

I bought a wrestling ring in either my third or fourth year in the league. I had it built in my barn and didn't use it much except for at parties when my friends' kids would want to get in there.

I definitely know a lot of guys that played in the league that came from the Bronx, but not a lot of them are a franchise all-time leading scorer. It's special, and I take pride in that.

You see more friendships in the league. It's not like in the '80s when you had enemies, or you couldn't stand this guy, and there were fights all the time.

The League of Nations could've been something really, really big... it wasn't. A lot of guys were frustrated about it in a way.