I perform in the major leagues of what I do. It's incredible.
As a 20th round pick nothing was handed to me in the minor leagues.
Christmas Day was special because everybody is watching at home. That's what I loved about Christmas Day because it shined the spotlight on the Lakers, on our team, and we knew that all of the other leagues were at home and millions of people were watching. So it made it a special day to play on Christmas.
I'd like to help educate kids about the Major Leagues - what to anticipate, what to expect, what they'll need to do to prepare themselves
The library will endure; it is the universe. . . We walk the corridors, searching the shelves and rearranging them, looking for lines of meaning amid leagues of cacophony and incoherence, reading the history of the past and of the future, collecting our thoughts and collecting the thoughts of others, and every so often glimpsing mirrors, in which we may recognize creatures of the information.
Homicide is the major leagues, the center ring, the show. It always has been. . . It goes beyond academic degrees, specialized training or book learning, because all the theory in the world means nothing if you can't read the street.
The minor leagues were great. When you first sign, that is your big leagues.
Anybody with ability can play in the big leagues. To last as long as I did with the skills I had, with the numbers I produced, was a triumph of the human spirit.
After 12 years in the minor leagues, I don't try out. Besides, uh, I don't believe in quantum physics when it comes to matters of the heart.
I'd like to help out in any way I can, especially with the younger guys in the minor leagues. But as far as setting something up, we haven't really talked about it.
I still don't know how I got to the big leagues because I wasn't that good.
If you don't set goals, you'll never reach them. Or like they say in golf, if you aim for nothing, you'll hit it every time. Take any player in the major leagues: I'd say just about everyone of them had a dream - a goal - to be a big-leaguer when they were kids. It wasn't an easy goal, but it was a reachable one, and that's important.
I'm just trying to get as good as I can get, I am still young but there is always room to learn so I spend a lot of time watching players in other leagues to get better.
If you're in the minor leagues, you want to get to the majors.
One day, one of my dreams is to someday get to do Nemo in '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. '
After I got that hit off Satchel (Paige), I knew I was ready for the big leagues.
I enjoyed hitting in the Major Leagues more than in the Minor Leagues. I didn't want to tell anybody it was easier, because I didn't want to sound cocky. But Major League pitchers had better control, and most of them were around the plate.
Well, it looks like the all-star balloting is about over, especially in the National and American Leagues.
Letting him manage in the major leagues is like sending Bo Derek through cellblock A without a bodyguard.
Strange is this alien despotism of Sleep which takes two persons lying in each other's arms & separates them leagues, continents,asunder.