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big league
«My biggest problem in the big leagues is that I can't figure out how to spend forty-three dollars in meal money.»
«When you're out there in the big league pressure cooker, a pitcher's attitude -- his utter confidence that he has an advantage of will and luck and guts over the hitter -- is almost as important as his stuff.»
Author: Bill Veeck
(Baseball Player)
| Keywords:
big league, cooker, guts, hitter, league, pitcher, pressure, pressure cooker, utter
«Anybody with ability can play in the big leagues. But to be able to trick people year in and year out the way I did, I think that was a much greater feat.»
«Of course, I started as a collector. A true collector. I can remember as if it were only yesterday the heart- pounding excitement as I spread out upon the floor of my bedroom The Edward G. Robinson Collection of Rare Cigar Bands. I didn't play at collecting. No cigar anywhere was safe from me. My father and uncles and all their friends turned their lungs black trying to satisfy my collector's zeal. And then came cigarette cards, big-league baseball players. I was an insatiable fiend, and would cheerfully trade you three Indian Joes for one of that upstart newcomer, Ty Cobb.»
Author: Edward G. Robinson
(Actor)
| Keywords:
baseball card, Baseball players, big league, black lung, cheerfully, cigarette, Cobb, collector, collectors, Edward, Edward G. Robinson, Edward G, Indian, One Pound, Only Yesterday, pounding, Robinson, Ty Cobb, uncles, upstart
«I was watching Ashlee Simpson on Jay's show last night... She was really singing, and I was saying, 'Bring back the lip synch.' ...And it struck me that Ashlee Simpson is a lot like George Bush-because she wouldn't even really be in the big leagues if it wasn't for family connections, and she's in way over her head. And she doesn't know what to do. And she blamed her band.»
Author: Bill Maher
(Actor, Comedian, Producer, Writer)
| About:
Comedy
| Keywords:
band, big league, blamed, bring back, bush, connections, George, George Bush, jay, leagues, lip, lip synch, Simpson, singing, strike back, struck, the Big
«I want to thank my parents for letting me play baseball. I'm thankful I had baseball knuckles and couldn't become a dentist...I got $2,100 a year when I started in the big league, and they get more money now. ...I chased the balls that Babe Ruth hit.»
Author: Casey Stengel
(Baseball Player, Manager)
| About:
Baseball,
Parents,
Thankfulness
| Keywords:
babe, Babe Ruth, balls, big league, knuckle, knuckles, league, Ruth, thankful
«You have to hit the fastball to play in the big leagues.»
Author: Ted Williams
(Baseball Player)
| Keywords:
big league, fastball, fastballs, leagues, the Big