#league

If someone were to ask me before I made the NBA, you going to have to go through all this, you're going to have to sign your soul away to play in the league, I still would have done it. ↗

— Chris Webber

#away #before #done #go #going

I don’t know how long we talked about that game the first time my dad showed me the ticket stub. He admitted he hadn’t even been sure that he still had it, that he was surprised when he’d been able to find it. But we’ve spent hours and hours and hours talking about it since. And it’s pretty amazing, because that ticket stub sat in a box for two decades—once it let my dad into a stadium to see a baseball game, and then later, it let me into my dad’s world, into his past, to learn about the man who taught me to love a game so passionately that it shaped nearly every aspect of my life. ↗

— Tucker Elliot

#baseball-trivia #cleveland-indians #major-league-baseball #trivia #life

I grew up in a utopia, I did. California when I was a child was a child's paradise, I was healthy, well fed, well clothed, well housed. I went to school and there were libraries with all the world in them and after school I played in orange groves and in Little League and in the band and down at the beach and every day was an adventure. . . . I grew up in utopia. ↗

— Kim Stanley Robinson

#beach #california #groves #libraries #library

I suffer much less than many of my colleagues. I am perfectly able to go to Australia and film within three hours of arrival. ↗

— David Attenborough

#am #arrival #australia #colleagues #film

A ball player has to be kept hungry to become a big leaguer. That's why no boy from a rich family has ever made the big leagues. ↗

— Joe DiMaggio

#ball player #become #big #big leagues #boy

It's up to the national associations and their leagues to limit the entry of foreign players. ↗

— Sepp Blatter

#entry #foreign #leagues #limit #national

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. ↗

— Sepp Blatter

#am #championship #effort #everything #future

In the Radiation Laboratory we count it a privilege to do everything we can to assist our medical colleagues in the application of these new tools to the problems of human suffering. ↗

— Ernest Lawrence

#assist #colleagues #count #everything #human

I fear that the hearts of the vast majority of mankind would beat on strongly and steadily and without any quickening if the league were to perish altogether. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

#any #beat #fear #hearts #i

Every day I went to the ballpark in Yankee Stadium as well as on the road people were on my back. The last six years in the American League were mental hell for me. I was drained of all my desire to play baseball. ↗

— Roger Maris

#american league #back #ballpark #baseball #day