#league

The more that Japanese players go to the big leagues to play and succeed, the more that will serve to inspire young kids in Japan to want to become baseball players when they grow up. ↗

— Ichiro Suzuki

#baseball players #become #big #big leagues #go

I can't think of any NBA team over the last few years that lost three starters. And we replaced them basically with three guys who really haven't played in this league. ↗

— Isaiah Thomas

#basically #few #guys #haven #i

With all the media attention, all the love from the fans, I felt I needed to prove myself. Prove that I'm not a marketing tool, I'm not a ploy to improve attendance. Prove I can play in this league. But I've surrendered that to God. I'm not in a battle with what everybody else thinks anymore. ↗

— Jeremy Lin

#attendance #attention #battle #else #everybody

But the reason that women's football is still unknown is because it's not on television and not widely publicised for a wide majority of the leagues in the world. ↗

— Marta

#football #leagues #majority #reason #still

I never was brought into the league thinking as far as, you know, statistics, things like that. We were really brought into the league in a team concept. Everything was focused around winning. ↗

— Mark Messier

#as far as #brought #concept #everything #far

The truth is that I don't have a favourite goal. I remember important goals more than I do favourite goals, like goals in the Champions League where I had the opportunity to have scored in both finals I have played in. Finals in the World Cup or Copa del Rey are the ones that have stayed with me for longer or that I remember more. ↗

— Lionel Messi

#champions #cup #del #favourite #finals

At every stage of my career I have had interesting and cordial colleagues, some of whom are close friends. ↗

— Daniel Nathans

#close #close friends #colleagues #cordial #every

Like many of my friends and colleagues, I can't get enough of Obama news; latest polling, speeches, visits, reaction of world leaders. ↗

— Lucy Powell

#enough #friends #get #i #latest

The contracts are structured different than athletes in America, but for me, it was good to move on and go back to playing in the premiere league, which is the best league. It was disappointing, as far as the team goes, but for me, there wasn't much I could do. ↗

— Claudio Reyna

#as far as #athletes #back #best #contracts

The situation was, the team I was on when I got injured went down to the lower leagues. In America, they don't have that relegation, so when the team went down to the lower region, every player has his value, and they went off and sold any player who had value. ↗

— Claudio Reyna

#any #down #every #got #had