Big Leagues Quotes

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

Family, Made, Why

Most political journalists come to Washington because they're snappy writers, big thinkers, or news breakers. Me? My ticket to the big leagues had little to do with talent. It was mostly about the governor I was covering, Bill Clinton.
Ron Fournier

Political, Big, Talent

Some times you lose more than you win. It's about handling losses and trying to turn them into positives. You get out into the big leagues and there's a period of adjustment to be made. You've got to handle it.
Lindsay Davenport

Win, Trying, Made

I was such a screwup when I got to the big leagues. I was a total idiot.
Curt Schilling

Idiot, Big, Total

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.
Bob Uecker

Play, Big, Able

You have to hit the fastball to play in the big leagues.
Ted Williams

If anyone wants to know why three kids in one family made it to the big leagues they just had to know how we helped each other and how much we practiced back then. We did it every minute we could.
Joe DiMaggio

Family, Made, Why

You know, when you first come up, and you get called up to the big leagues, all you want to do is just, you just want to have a career, a nice career. You want to make a living at it.
Rafael Palmeiro

Nice, Career, Living

Sooner or later you learn that you belong in the big leagues, and that makes you calm down.
Dennis Eckersley

Down, Big, Learn

I looked up to my father when I was 7 and 8. I believed it was my calling to be in the big leagues. I'd been raised by a family that always told me I could do anything I wanted.
Barry Zito

Family, Father, Big

The more that Japanese players go to the big leagues to play and succeed, the more that will serve to inspire young kids in Japan to want to become baseball players when they grow up.
Ichiro Suzuki

Baseball, Play, Young

If I don't make the team out of spring training, I'll keep a good attitude. I'll just go polish up the parts of my game that made me not stay in the big leagues.
Cory Lidle

Good, Attitude, Game

I just wanted to go play in the big leagues. But possibly playing for the Yankees is very special.
Nick Johnson

Play, Special, Big

I would love to get back to the big leagues as a coach, possibly a manager. I would love that opportunity.
Gary Carter

Love, Big, Manager

To put it better, we believe the radar gun will get you drafted, but you have to pitch to get to the big leagues. Tools will get you drafted, but you have to be able to play to get to the big leagues.
Roy Clark

It's a good feeling to see the kids try to make it, try to get to the big leagues. Everyone here has an opportunity to achieve his dream. I was lucky I was able to achieve my dream.
Tony Oliva

Good, Feeling, Try

I still don't know how I got to the big leagues because I wasn't that good.
Johnny Oates

Good, Big, Leagues

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