#league

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

I feel so fortunate, so honored, to have played this game that I love for so long, with so many great players, and in front of so many wonderful fans. I fulfilled a childhood dream the first time I stepped on an NFL field, and the league did not let me down one time. ↗

— Drew Bledsoe

#childhood dream #did #down #dream #fans

The Nobel Prize is given as a personal award but it also honors the field of research in which I have worked and it also honors my students and colleagues. ↗

— Robert Hofstadter

#award #colleagues #field #given #honors

I think also of my colleagues in elementary particle theory in many lands, and feel that in some measure I am here as a representative of our small, informal, international fraternity. ↗

— Murray Gell-Mann

#am #colleagues #elementary #feel #fraternity

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

This league is getting big. We have way more 300-pound guys than ever before. That's not to say all the people in athletics who have died are 300-pound guys. There are so many different reasons. ↗

— Steve Mariucci

#before #big #died #different #different reasons

Meanwhile, the originator of a theory may have a very lonely time, especially if his colleagues find his views of nature unfamiliar, and difficult to appreciate. ↗

— Peter D. Mitchell

#colleagues #difficult #especially #find #his

The final outcome cannot be known, either to the originator of a new theory, or to his colleagues and critics, who are bent on falsifying it. Thus, the scientific innovator may feel all the more lonely and uncertain. ↗

— Peter D. Mitchell

#cannot #colleagues #critics #either #feel

There's apparently soccer leagues that they've set up with young Indian girls. ↗

— Parminder Nagra

#indian #leagues #set #soccer #up

When we won the league championship, all the married guys on the club had to thank their wives for putting up with all the stress and strain all season. I had to thank all the single broads in New York. ↗

— Joe Namath

#championship #club #guys #had #i