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«Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.»
«I'm reachable for people, I'm not out of their league. I'm just a normal girl.»
Author: Alicia Silverstone (Actress) | About: Words | Keywords: league, reachable
«I'm not so mean. I wouldn't ever go out to hurt anybody deliberately - unless it was, you know, important, like a league game or something.»
Author: Dick Butkus | Keywords: league
«A major league baseball team is a collection of 25 youngish men who have made the major leagues and discovered that in spite of it, life remains distressingly short of ideal.»
«In 1962 I was named Minor League Player of the Year. It was my second season in the bigs.»
Author: Bob Uecker | Keywords: league, minor, minor league
«I am not impressed by the Ivy League establishments. Of course they graduate the best -- it's all they'll take, leaving to others the problem of educating the country. They will give you an education the way the banks will give you money -- provided you can prove to their satisfaction that you don't need it.»
«Brooks Robinson belongs in a higher league.»
«In Brazil every kid starts playing street football very early. It's in our blood. As a professional I started at Sao Cristovao in the city of Rio de Janeiro. Of course I also played in the beach soccer league, barefoot.»
«And it came to pass at the end of three days after they had made a league with them, that they heard that they were their neighbours, and that they dwelt among them.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: league
«And the men of Israel said unto the Hivites, Peradventure ye dwell among us; and how shall we make a league with you? / And they said unto Joshua, We are thy servants. And Joshua said unto them, Who are ye? and from whence come ye? / And they said unto him, From a very far country thy servants are come because of the name of the LORD thy God: for we have heard the fame of him, and all that he did in Egypt, / And all that he did to the two kings of the Amorites, that were beyond Jordan, to Sihon king of Heshbon, and to Og king of Bashan, which was at Ashtaroth.»