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11,340 miles, or 5,250 French leagues,
— Jules Verne
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.
— Lance Berkman
Not only was I not the best catcher in the Major Leagues, I wasn't even the best catcher on my street!
— Joe Garagiola
Well, I wanted to play twenty years in the major leagues. I never made it twenty though. I played nineteen.
— Bert Campaneris
Leagues, till we were able to work no longer, being already spent with labour while we were in the ship.
— Jonathan Swift
Here you would know, and enjoy, what prosperity will way of Washington. For a thousand leagues have nearly the same effect with a thousand years.
— Benjamin Franklin
Not many people get to the major leagues and succeed right away. There are some struggles. Everyone seems to struggle.
— George Brett
I predict that many teams will go out of business and the size of the leagues will be greatly reduced.
— Will McDonough
If you're in the minor leagues, you want to get to the majors.
— Ryne Sandberg
I'm just enjoying playing baseball in the major leagues.
— Matt Holliday
I'm a great bowler. I was in a couple of leagues as a kid.
— Matthew Morrison
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.
— Darin Erstad
the shoulder I built up in Japan. Since I came to the major leagues, I couldn't train my own way, so now I've lost all those savings." Farrell
— Terry Francona
I crossed a thousand leagues to come to you, and lost the best part of me along the way. Don't tell me to leave.
— George R R Martin
Everybody in the minor leagues - if you're a player, an announcer, whatever - wants to be in the big leagues.
— Ernie Harwell
I think I can play in the big leagues 10 or 15 years. But more important to me is winning-win, make the playoffs.
— Carlos Beltran
Just about every Latin American country has sent players to the big leagues, from the Dominican Republic to Costa Rica.
— Cheech Marin
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.
— Russell Wilson
Strange is this alien despotism of Sleep which takes two persons lying in each other's arms & separates them leagues, continents,asunder.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sailing to an island unknownFailing to find your way home
you walk under a sea
leagues beneath us — Maggie Stiefvater
My biggest problem in the big leagues is that I can't figure out how to spend forty-three dollars in meal money.
— Andy Van Slyke
Everybody's dream is to be in the big leagues, but only one in a million gets here.
— Jeremy Bonderman
I'm not in the big leagues just because I'm cute.
— Pedro Martinez
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.
— Charlie Finley
I'd rather play in the major leagues and have some bad games than play consistently good ball in the minors.
— Simon Sinek
I had 12 years under my belt of baseball at the amateur level before I got to the big leagues.
— Tom Seaver
Struck in the wet mireFour thousand leagues from the ninth buried city
I thought of Troy, what we had built her for. — Allen Tate
I started to crouch because that way I could guard the plate better, and I always wanted to hit .300 in the big leagues.
— Stan Musial
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
One day, one of my dreams is to someday get to do Nemo in '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.'
— Nicolas Cage
When you're a first-round pick and you get to the big leagues at 22, there's almost a sense that you've got to mature.
— Evan Longoria
I expected to be in the big leagues soon. I didn't know exactly how soon, but I wanted to be here soon, and I wanted to make a difference soon.
— Mark Teixeira
It's up to the national associations and their leagues to limit the entry of foreign players.
— Sepp Blatter
I never really worried about stats in the minor leagues. I was more concerned with getting better and bringing a positive attitude every day.
— Matt Holliday
I don't expect any red carpet to the big leagues. If the opportunity comes, then it comes. But I don't think I'm owed anything.
— Ryne Sandberg
Sooner or later you learn that you belong in the big leagues, and that makes you calm down.
— Dennis Eckersley
I was a great base umpire, but I was the most mediocre plate umpire to ever come into the major leagues.
— Doug Harvey
You have to hit the fastball to play in the big leagues.
— Ted Williams
At my growing years of 18 to 21 years old in the Minor Leagues, I dreamed of being a Philadelphia Phillie.
— Ryne Sandberg
The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
— Joseph Addison
I just wanted to go play in the big leagues. But possibly playing for the Yankees is very special.
— Nick Johnson
I was not bitter by not being allowed to play in the major leagues. I just said, 'The time has not come.'
— Buck Leonard
Maybe in the minor leagues. With my velocity, they would pick it up and say, 'Hey, you dropped something.'
— Jay Feaster
To me, there is no more conscientious umpire in the Major Leagues than Jim Joyce. He gives you a hellacious effort every time.
— Tony La Russa
I wasn't quite sure how a player got to the big leagues. As far as I knew, he was just there one day.
— Tommy Lasorda
In the big leagues everyone has ability. It always comes down to mind games. Who ever is more mentally strong-wins.
— Muhammad Ali
Letting him manage in the major leagues is like sending Bo Derek through cellblock A without a bodyguard.
— Bill James
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.
— John Boyle O'Reilly
The child is small, and he includes the man; the brain is narrow, and it harbours thought; the eye is but a point, and it covers leagues
— Alexandre Dumas-fils
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And you learn [how to win] starting in the minor leagues, by winning day in and day out.
— Eric Byrnes
Well, it looks like the all-star balloting is about over, especially in the National and American Leagues.
— Jerry Coleman
I've been chased, shot, cut, beaten, and dragged a hundred leagues in the blink of an eye. I need a drink.
— Jessica Khoury
I was very nervous, excited, and happy to be given the opportunity to even be in the major leagues.
— Bengie Molina
I don't know how the 'Richie' started. My name is Richard, and they called me Dick in the minor leagues.
— Richie Allen
There was nothing to keep him (Cal Ripken, Jr.) from being a star in the Major Leagues. That was inevitable.
— Earl Weaver
In the Negro Leagues, I played every day.
— Buck Leonard
I would love to get back to the big leagues as a coach, possibly a manager. I would love that opportunity.
— Gary Carter
Just as I'm fortunate to pitch in the big leagues, I'm also fortunate for the time I get to spend outdoors.
— Jon Lester
Winston Cup and the Busch Series are two totally different leagues. You get put in different situations.
— Adam Petty
Being called baby: like safaris and bowling leagues, a phenomenon she never thought she'd experience first hand.
— Curtis Sittenfeld
I couldn't believe I hit .342. I hit .333 one month in Triple-A. Otherwise, I hit .279 in the minor leagues. I'm proud of myself.
— Robinson Cano
There's a lot more to playing in the big leagues in New York than just the baseball part.
— David Wright
Infielder Craig Counsell played parts of sixteen years in the major leagues despite looking like a librarian,
— Tim Kurkjian
I perform in the major leagues of what I do. It's incredible.
— Darrell Hammond
I cannot consent to be led three or four hundred leagues out of my route, without its being by force of arms.
— Zebulon Pike
I've put in 63 years now in the big leagues as a player, coach, manager. And now just being around these young guys, it keeps you going pretty good.
— Red Schoendienst
I had trouble with my temper all the way through the minor leagues.
— Cal Ripken Jr.
