League Quotes

I was very nervous, excited, and happy to be given the opportunity to even be in the major leagues.

I have more critics than Hitler.

I was playing like a rugby league player with 14 rugby players.

We play a tough game. If people want to whinge, they can go to a different sport. It’s part of the game, it’s what I love about it . . . and I’d hate to see it go.

When you’re scoring five goals in one Champions League match, there’s no value that’s too high.

I didn’t want to be a big record mogul and all that stuff. I just wanted to write songs and make people laugh.

Ms. Wormwood: Calvin, can you tell us what Lewis and Clark did? Calvin: No, but I can recite the secret superhero origin of each member of Captain Napalm’s Thermonuclear League of Liberty.

Well, I wanted to play twenty years in the major leagues. I never made it twenty though. I played nineteen.

She may be a wispy, thin little thing, but when you see that girl, you know you’re really in the presence of something. In that league there’s only ever been Garbo, and the other Hepburn, and maybe Bergman. It’s a rare quality, but boy, do you know when you’ve found it.

I want to stay around longer than the pitchers who were at the top when I came into the big leagues. I don’t want to be gone and have all the old guys – Seaver, Carlton, Ryan and Sutton – still pitching. I got rid of Palmer, now I want to outlast the rest of them.