The Premier League Quotes

1. "The biggest thrill a ballplayer can have is when your son takes after you. That happened when my Bobby was in his championship Little League game. He really showed me something. Struck out three times. Made an error that lost the game. Parents were throwing things at our car and swearing at us as we drove off. Gosh, I was proud."
Author: Bob Uecker

2. "«Toute abstraction est si dure à accepter que notre premier réflexe est de la refuser, d'autant plus si elle s'inscrit à contre-courant de ce que nous avons toujours pensé.»"
Author: Bram Stoker

3. "By far, the best moment of my big league career was when I caught the last out at the World Series."
Author: Cal Ripken Jr.

4. "Any professional league that goes on strike right now - that's just suicide."
Author: Charles Barkley

5. "... la grammaire est le premier outil de la pensée organisée et (...) la fameuse analyse logique (...) ajuste les mouvements de notre réflexion, laquelle se trouve aiguisée par le bon usage des fameuses propositions subordonnées."
Author: Daniel Pennac

6. "On the Russian revolutionaries:To leave your parents, faithful and loyal subjects of the Emperor, to leave your profession, to desist from having children, to lose your fortune, and to give up your civil honor, all for revolutionary conviction, makes for a league of more practical proof than any religious order."
Author: Eugen Rosenstock Huessy

7. "When you play in the Premier League, say you're playing against a lower-end team, they set up to defend all the time, they set up to block you off. But when you play in the Champions League, all the other teams are used to winning every week, so it's more of an open game, it's more attacking, end-to-end."
Author: Gareth Bale

8. "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."
Author: Gary Neville

9. "American League teams don't bunt very often. National League teams bunt a lot."
Author: George Brett

10. "Only 38 per cent of players in the Premier League are English; that is a damning statistic. Soon, the England manager will have to go scouting for players in the Championship - and when I say 'soon' I mean the next four or five years, perhaps even for the next World Cup."
Author: Glenn Hoddle

11. "Nonetheless, I felt like I knew him well enough so that we did not have to do much talking. From the very beginning I had felt a definite contact with Yeoman, a kind of tenuous understanding that talk is pretty cheap in this league and that a man who knew what he was after had damn little time to find it, much less to sit back and explain himself."
Author: Hunter S. Thompson

12. "You don't return your phone calls." The vampire leaned forward, tapping my doodle with a scimitar claw. "Is that a lion with horns and a pitchfork?""Yep.""Is he carrying the moon on his pitchfork?""No, it's a pie. What can I do for Atlanta's premier Master of the Dead?"
Author: Ilona Andrews

13. "I think the National Football League needs a new union. The heavyweights of this union are not heavyweights enough."
Author: Jim Brown

14. "Too many kids today are playing major league ball and don't belong there."
Author: Joe DiMaggio

15. "I'm happy with the Arena Football League right now. I'm happy in Denver."
Author: John Elway

16. "Woods are grim places. Farmers shoot squirrels, crows, magpies, and hang them up on trees to warn Mother Nature to get it together or else. Much notice she takes, being in league with God. They're a right pair, more carnage than the rest of us put together."
Author: Jonathan Gash

17. "My motive, and I will make it clear and look you in the eyes, is to attack major league baseball. That's my motive."
Author: Jose Canseco

18. "My father was a Little League dictator. That really affected me, his control-freakery, his impunity, his arbitrary unreasonable power."
Author: Junot Diaz

19. "Some of the fans here were not too sure about their club signing a player from their biggest rivals. Fortunately, we had a great season and won the League title for the first time in four years. Now, I think, everyone can say it was good business."
Author: Luis Figo

20. "I am happy to be playing in the Premier League because everyone knows it is the strongest league in the world. There are simply a lot of top teams."
Author: Mesut Ozil

21. "It's just become such a business, getting into college. I see that a lot in my friends, their parents were so on top of them about getting into an Ivy League school since they were so young, they were just drilled and drilled and drilled, to the point that they just don't know why they want to go."
Author: Nat Wolff

22. "For us it is not comparable, the FA Cup and Champions League,' Arsène Wenger said before Arsenal played Leeds in the FA Cup. ‘The Champions League is compulsory. The FA Cup is something that is for enjoyment … The basis of our life at the top level is dictated by the championship. If we can add on top of that the FA Cup it is fantastic."
Author: Nick Hornby

23. "I mean no disrespect to Scottish football, but the Premier League is the biggest stage and highest profile league of all."
Author: Peter Shilton

24. "I'm in a hallowed league of artists. Whether it's Billie Holiday or Rakim or Jimmy Hendrix or... I don't know, MGMT, we're all blessed to be able to create. It's a lineage that extends a long time. And to be able to be active in it and have made a difference in it, it's humbling. To know I had a place in all of this; that's the rewarding part."
Author: Q Tip

25. "I wanted to be a part of something special and contributing to the launch of a new league was very exciting to me."
Author: Rickey Henderson

26. "Liverpool have won everything but never a World Championship. I am sure in the future they will once again make the effort to win the tournament. They have had good rhythm in the Premier League this season."
Author: Sepp Blatter

27. "I consciously memorized the speed at which every pitcher in the league threw his fastball, curve, and slider. Then, I'd pick up the speed of the ball in the first 30 feet of its flight and knew how it would move once it has crossed the plate."
Author: Stan Musial

28. "You can be the best person in the league but if you don't win championships, something's missing."
Author: Terrell Davis

29. "How can you protect yourself by carrying a sword if you don't know how to use it?'Not me, sir. Other people. They see the sword and don't attack me,' said Maladict patiently.Yes, but if they did, lad, you wouldn't be any good with it,' said the sergeant.No, sir. I'd probably settle for just ripping their heads off, sir. That's what I mean by protection, sir. Theirs, not mine. And I'd get hell from the League if I did that, sir."
Author: Terry Pratchett

30. "We want to add an American League pennant... and to bring the World Series to Arlington."
Author: Tom Hicks

31. "Most of us would give anything for the chance to play just one day of MLB baseball—especially for our favorite team. Well, there once was a pitcher named Bock Baker who actually got two opportunities to pitch in the big leagues. He took the mound for Cleveland against the Chicago White Sox in his big league debut. How did he fare? Well, he pitched a complete game. Pretty spectacular, right? Well, sure—but it depends on your perspective. He gave up 23 hits and 13 runs. Baker never pitched for Cleveland again, but the Philadelphia Athletics gave him a second big league start that same year (1901). He lasted juts six innings, and lost again after giving up 11 runs—and then his career was over."
Author: Tucker Elliot

32. "Dave Concepción exceeded everyone's expectations—everyone's except, perhaps, his own. That's because as a kid, Concepción idolized Major League Hall of Fame shortstop and fellow-Venezuelan Luis Aparicio, and he aspired to become that same caliber of player."
Author: Tucker Elliot

33. "I don't actually watch many shows. I will either watch movies or football. I enjoy to watch games in the Premier League and will also watch movies a lot as well. That is how I relax."
Author: Xavi

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