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Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.
Yogi Berra

Good, Parents, Baseball

It's hard to say if the NBA is hurt by the influx of younger players, but it's definitely impacted the league.
Michael Jordan

Hurt, Hard, Players

Do I need my number retired throughout the course of the league to acknowledge what I've done? No.
Michael Jordan

Done, Number, Retired

I think Little League is wonderful. It keeps the kids out of the house.
Yogi Berra

Wonderful, Kids, House

We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don't like federal agents poking around our libraries in the Red States. We coach Little League in the Blue States and have gay friends in the Red States.
Barack Obama

God, Gay, Friends

Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.
Erma Bombeck

Wisdom, Mother, White

I wish I could play little league now. I'd be way better than before.
Mitch Hedberg

Before, Play, Wish

Just think of what Woodrow Wilson stood for: he stood for world government. He wanted an early United Nations, League of Nations. But it was the conservatives, Republicans, that stood up against him.
Ron Paul

Government, Him, Wanted

None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns - bent down and helped us pick up our boots.
Thurgood Marshall

Teacher, Down, Here

The Arab League tells us to go in and take out Qaddafi. We've spent billions of dollars already with respect to the Arab League. Billions of dollars, because they told us to do it. Why aren't they paying for it? They don't like Qaddafi, Qaddafi's been a terrible thorn in their side.
Donald Trump

Respect, Why, Side

Wouldn't it be great if our national news media had standards as high as the National Football League's?
Rush Limbaugh

Great, Football, High

Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.
Abe Lemons

Medical, School, Idiot

Any professional league that goes on strike right now - that's just suicide.
Charles Barkley

Affirmative action is a little like the professional football draft. The NFL awards its No. 1 draft choices to the lowest-ranked team in the league. It doesn't do this out of compassion or guilt. It's done for mutual survival. They understand that a league can only be as strong as its weakest team.
J. C. Watts

Strong, Football, Done

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.
Dick Butkus

Hurt, Important, Game

When I played pro football, I never set out to hurt anyone deliberately - unless it was, you know, important, like a league game or something.
Dick Butkus

Hurt, Important, Game

The League is very well when sparrows shout, but no good at all when eagles fall out.
Benito Mussolini

Good, Fall, Shout

The biggest thrill a ballplayer can have is when your son takes after you. That happened when my Bobby was in his championship Little League game. He really showed me something. Struck out three times. Made an error that lost the game. Parents were throwing things at our car and swearing at us as we drove off. Gosh, I was proud.
Bob Uecker

Car, Parents, Game

I couldn't beat people with my strength; I don't have a hard shot; I'm not the quickest skater in the league. My eyes and my mind have to do most of the work.
Wayne Gretzky

Work, Strength, Mind

No doubt, the White House thinks the American people know Obama's story. But since the Inauguration, we've seen only the president's present: his perfect family, his Ivy League elegance, his effortless mastery of complex issues. We never see him sweat. And we forget that he ever had to struggle.
Dee Dee Myers

Family, Struggle, Forget

I do feel a lot of times like I'm out of my league with my kids in terms of what my responsibility is.
Louis C. K.

Kids, Times, Terms

Major league baseball has asked its players to stop tossing baseballs into the stands during games, because they say fans fight over them and they get hurt. In fact, the Florida Marlins said that's why they never hit any home runs. It's a safety issue.
Jay Leno

Home, Hurt, Fight

On the day I started college in 1979, no woman had ever been on the United States Supreme Court or served as the Speaker of the House. None had been an astronaut or the solo anchor of a network evening news broadcast. Not one had been president of an Ivy League college or run a serious campaign for president.
Dee Dee Myers

Woman, Evening, Serious

My father was a Little League dictator. That really affected me, his control-freakery, his impunity, his arbitrary unreasonable power.
Junot Diaz

Power, Father, Dictator

Although they can do it all the time, you know, they're far better than me, on a musically, on a theoretical music level. You know, they're out of my league.
Eric Clapton

Music, Time, Far

Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.
Harold Pinter

Government, Status, Press

I wouldn't ever set out to hurt anyone deliberately unless it was, you know, important - like a league game or something.
Dick Butkus

Hurt, Important, Game

So, who in the media is without sin among us? I am in the media and I am a major league sinner. I don't know anyone except my wife who isn't a big time sinner.
Ben Stein

Time, Wife, Big

For years the league has thought I've been on drugs. I would have burned out a long time ago if that was true.
Dennis Rodman

Time, True, Long

I spent money, I slept with women around the league, but I always kept my mind on the game.
Dennis Rodman

Money, Women, Mind

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