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I always wanted to be a player, but I never had the talent to make the big leagues. So I did the next best thing: I bought a team.
In this league, you can't take your foot off the gas pedal. You think you have something won, but teams are too good, too talented.
I took a huge risk leaving baseball, because I was predicted to play in the big leagues. I'm kind of a prototypical second baseman.
I wouldn't call going into the Premier League an ordeal. I would say the Championship is more of an ordeal than the Premier League.
It's the price on the ticket and emphasizes the pressure every manager is under weather you are at the top or bottom of the league.
Since I got to the big leagues, there's been a whole lot of Direct-TV sold in Jamestown. People like to keep up with the local boy.
The way of success is not run with seven league boots but step by step, little by little, bit by bit ... with no exceptions allowed.
While I could still play in the Premier League, I really did not want to go abroad. I was not thinking about winding down my career.
Plants and factories are already starting to move back into the United States, and big league Ford, General Motors, so many of them.
You can go down a list of footballers since the Premier League and I don't think David Beckham would probably be in the first 1,000.
When I started to play consistently and produce consistently, that's when I knew that I could compete and do well in the big leagues.
The rule is you don't play very long in this league. So you make the most out of it and you have to look at yourself in that fashion.
It can't be too bad being one of the top goalscorers at Arsenal in the Premier League, mainly as a winger as well, and three FA Cups.
When a Scottish player goes down the road you're always going to get doubters. You always get people saying you're from a pub league.
You have to understand that in this league, we are all one play removed from being the starter or from being the backup, in any game.
If you look at poker as a sport like baseball, then I'd be maybe a minor league or high school ballplayer. But I play with T-ballers.
Look to the Premier League. Are there any black managers? Look at the Italian league? Are there any black managers? The list goes on.
I'm not going to say the Dutch league is naive but they all play to win. In the Premier League, you have teams with a different idea.
I might be in a bit of a Skoda garage rather than a Mercedes garage, but I am telling you some old bangers don't half polish up great.
The world is large when its weary leagues two loving hearts divide; But the world is small when your enemy is loose on the other side.
Ancelotti is a coach with a lot of experience. He won the Champions League while at Milan, playing some great football in the process.
More than half the G League is going to be high school kids that are trying to make it. I hope I'm wrong. I absolutely hope I'm wrong.
I think the biggest thing in this league is how many positions can you guard and do you have a strength offensively that's applicable?
My father was a Little League dictator. That really affected me, his control-freakery, his impunity, his arbitrary unreasonable power.
I remember for my Champions League debut against Anderlecht, my dad flew 27 hours to reach that game and he was crying all 95 minutes!
My first ball I ever got from a big-league player I actually got to purchase in Dodger Stadium in a silent auction, was Reggie Jackson.
I'm facing new challenges in China, the league here is developing and I try to help Chinese football develop here and around the world.
I never forgot the four years I spent with the Phillies, my September call-ups and my big league Spring Trainings. I never forgot that.
When you're in this league, you have to do something every single day. You have off days, but those off days are usually watching film.
It's important that top clubs don't lose sight of the fact that it's the English Premier League and English players should be involved.
It's not legal to gamble but it is legal to do fantasy leagues. To me it's an outlet where people can go on, play, and make some money.
When I arrived at Manchester United, the club hadn't won the league for 26 years, and then in my first year, they won the championship.
I think sometimes Hall of Famers might get labeled as guys who aren't suited for a coaching job or to be back at the Major League level.
I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business.
I have loved but one flag and I can not share that devotion and give affection to the mongrel banner invented for the League of Nations.
The Premier League is a competition that suits me, which is perhaps more praise to myself. It's more direct, more rhythmic than Ligue 1.
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.
I enjoyed my time in Germany, I definitely rate the league as it develops well and you have quite a lot of teams that play good football.
I've heard a few times, in three or four years, this league is going to be yours. I don't like that. Because I think I'm established now.
My best Champions League moment was when Milan won in 2007 against Liverpool. That was the biggest moment for me in the Champions League.
I became a major league manager in several cities and was discharged. We call it discharged because there was no question I had to leave.
When real independence comes to India, the Congress and the League will be nowhere unless they represent the real opinion of the country.
When I first came in the league, I thought Jack Clark and Steve Garvey were big. Then all of sudden it seemed like everyone was that big.
Federal law should hold organizations like the League of Women Voters harmless if they make good-faith mistakes while registering people.
I helped develop Disney's) special effects department at that time, which helped very much when we worked on "20000 Leagues under the Sea"
You can say that strikers are very much like postmen: they have to get in and out as quick as they can before the dog starts to have a go.
But you grow more knowledgeable during the time you play in the Premier League. Every new manager, new chapter, has been a learning curve.
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.
Especially in this league, you can have a tendency to look ahead, but really, it's about one taking one day at a time, one game at a time.
It never gets old, being told you are a traitor and in league with the terrorists because you disagree with current administration policy.