Leagues Quotes
135 Leagues quotes by 112 unique authors
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If anyone wants to know why three kids in one family made it to the big leagues they just had to know how we helped…
— Joe DiMaggio
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Everybody in the minor leagues - if you're a player, an announcer, whatever - wants to be in the big leagues.
— Ernie Harwell
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The families of many athletes - incensed at the sports leagues and hoping to make games safer overall - are increasingly making the brains of…
— Jeffrey Kluger
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When I was growing up, there weren't any Little Leagues in the city. Parents worked all the time. They didn't have time to take their…
— Mike Krzyzewski
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I'm a great bowler. I was in a couple of leagues as a kid.
— Matthew Morrison
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What I found fascinating was just how quickly the best of the young Negro League players were drafted into the major leagues once Branch Rickey…
— Walter Dean Myers
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I was such a screwup when I got to the big leagues. I was a total idiot.
— Curt Schilling
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I'd rather play in the major leagues and have some bad games than play consistently good ball in the minors.
— Simon Sinek
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A significant piece of the wealth that the NFL owners garner is a result of the enormous TV revenues they get - and those revenues…
— Eliot Spitzer
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The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.
— Adlai E. Stevenson
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Anybody with ability can play in the big leagues. But to be able to trick people year in and year out the way I did,…
— Bob Uecker
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Before broadcasting for 50-some years, I did TV, played 10 years in the big leagues, won a world championship - and played a big part…
— Bob Uecker
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The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having accomplished nearly ten thousand leagues in three months and a half, a distance…
— Jules Verne
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You have to hit the fastball to play in the big leagues.
— Ted Williams
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We used to play a lot outdoors, not in leagues, but just in our spare time.
— Steve Yzerman
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The work that launched Snohetta into the architectural big leagues was their Oslo Opera House, which will certainly rank among the firm's highlights whatever else…
— Martin Filler
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Orcs, and talking trees, and leagues of grass, and galloping riders, and glittering caves, and white towers and golden halls, and battles, and tall ships…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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I read library books as fast as I could go, rushing them home in the basket of my bicycle. From the minute I reached our…
— Eudora Welty
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Marius and Cosette were in the dark in regard to each other. They did not speak, they did not bow, they were not acquainted; they…
— Victor Hugo
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We can have wilderness without freedom; we can have wilderness without human life at all, but we cannot have freedom without wilderness, we cannot have…
— Edward Abbey
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Sailing to an island unknown Failing to find your way home you walk under a sea leagues beneath us
— Maggie Stiefvater
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I crossed a thousand leagues to come to you, and lost the best part of me along the way. Don't tell me to leave.
— George R. R. Martin
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She knows, now, absolutely, hearing the white noise that is London, that Damien's theory of jet lag is correct: that her mortal soul is leagues…
— William Gibson
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The child is small, and he includes the man; the brain is narrow, and it harbours thought; the eye is but a point, and it…
— Alexandre Dumas-fils
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What happens when we acknowledge the sovereignty and power of God without trusting in His goodness and faithfulness? A pitcher who saw God's power behind…
— Michael Lewis
Who Wrote These Leagues Quotes
112 authors contributed a total of 135 Leagues Quotes, led by these top contributors: