Quotes About 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.

For years, I have been harboring memories of my first major league game at a place named Ebbets Field in Brooklyn.

Who dared to do this?" he demanded. "Vampire hunters who have fallen, ironically enough, in league with a vampire," Gregori answered.

The Führer's reply was to withdraw the German delegates from both the League of Nations and the Conference for Arms Limitation.

Also, now that we were just one league among many, we had needed a league name. And so we had become, despite Eleanor's objections, Aunt Nellie's All-Star Resistance League—the Resisters, for short.

You know, I want to be the uncommon one. I think it's pretty cool that I'm only 5'11", you know, and playing in the National Football League.

I'm just getting older and I'm understanding the game and I'm more experienced in the league.

I was a halfback on an American football team in Athens, Greece - the Kississia Colts - where I went to high school, and we took the Cup my senior year. The downside, and somewhat unfortunate piece of information I have to pass on, is there were only two teams in the league because of the limited amount of Americans.

We all sign up where you might get hurt. That's what makes this league a little bit different than any other in professional sports.

As I get older, I find myself way more into sports. I'm in a basketball league. You maybe know some of the people in it. They're real people, not fake ones like me.

That mindset never changes. It should never change. If you've been in the league for 14 years or been in the league not even a day, you should have that mindset that you're going to go out there and prove yourself and earn a spot.

My high school was in the private school league, and we played all our games at the college stadium. It wasn't like we filled it, but we got a good crowd.

At Florida, I could outrun or out jump a lot of players. But everyone in this league runs either a 4.4 or 4.5 and can jump out of the stadium.

If we in Spain had fans like in England, it would be the best League without doubt. And the live football, in the stadiums, the people live for it.

A lot of rookies don't come into the league and have that type of leeway that Coach Walton and his staff really gave me.

Part of having a great offensive staff is every week we look at different plays around the league and the collegiate ranks, and things that over the years that might fit what we do.

We had a great staff in college, so after I got to the league, I'd already seen stuff I knew. Then it was enhanced, playing the game with great guys like Ray Lewis and Terrell Suggs, Haloti Ngata, Chris McAlister.

I like it in Denmark. The league is very good and all the teams are of a similar standard.

Refereeing is always an issue where you want to have the best officials, and I think the referees do their very best in the games, but we always want to improve standards across the league.

Our fight is a fundamental fight against both of the old corrupt party machines, for both are under the dominion of the plunder league of the professional politicians who are controlled and sustained by the great beneficiaries of privilege and reaction.

I am for such a League [of Nations] provided we don't expect too much from it. . . . I am not willing to play the pan which even Aesop held up to derision when he wrote of how the wolves and the sheep agreed to disarm, and how the sheep as a guarantee of good faith sent away the watchdogs, and were then forthwith eaten by the wolves.

I have a good team around me and I don't feel anything is anywhere near out of my league.

I'm facing new challenges in China, the league here is developing and I try to help Chinese football develop here and around the world.

Emotions always play a part, especially on Champions League nights at the Bernabeu.