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But to cut off relations with an aggressor may often invite retaliation by armed action, and this would, in its turn, make necessary some form of collective self-defence by the loyal members of the League.
Arthur Henderson

May, Off, Often

I learned how to take other people's mechanisms of promoting their stuff through me as opposed to promoting my own stuff, as far as getting Snoop DeVilles, SnoopDeGrills, Snoop Doggy Dogg biscuits, Snoop Dogg record label, Snoop Dogg bubble gum, Snoop Youth Football League.
Snoop Dogg

Football, Through, Learned

As the National Football League and other pro sports increasingly reckon with the early dementia, mental health issues, suicides and even criminal behavior of former players, the risk of what's known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), is becoming clear.
Jeffrey Kluger

Health, Sports, Football

The interesting thing is that it seems like George W. Bush would have been happy being the president of anything. He could have been president of Major League Baseball.
Eddie Vedder

Happy, Baseball, President

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

The people at the top of the league think they need to rein me in so I don't become another Michael Jordan, somebody they aren't able to mold and shape and make their puppet.
Dennis Rodman

Become, Another, Able

In 1962 I was named Minor League Player of the Year. It was my second season in the bigs.
Bob Uecker

Year, Second, Player

The Champions League is the competition everyone wants to be in.
Steven Gerrard

Everyone, Wants, Champions

But I think the Champions League Final puts a massive pressure on every player and the manager, but we're enjoying the pressure and hopefully we can go there and win it.
Steven Gerrard

Win, Pressure, Player

When we won the league championship, all the married guys on the club had to thank their wives for putting up with all the stress and strain all season. I had to thank all the single broads in New York.
Joe Namath

Stress, Single, Married

In sixth grade, my basketball team made it to the league championships. In double overtime, with three seconds left, I rebounded the ball and passed it - to the wrong team! They scored at the buzzer and we lost the game. To this day, I still have nightmares!
Zac Efron

Game, Lost, Basketball

I think it's a natural fit, major league baseball and country music.
Joe Nichols

Music, Baseball, Country

There is no life for girls in team sports past Little League. I got into tennis when I realized this, and because I thought golf would be too slow for me, and I was too scared to swim.
Billie Jean King

Life, Sports, Past

The first condition of success for the League of Nations is, therefore, a firm understanding between the British Empire and the United States of America and France and Italy that there will be no competitive building up of fleets or armies between them.
Arthur Henderson

Success, America, Between

In 1981, at age 31, I was voted the best player in basketball, and the most valuable player in the league.
Julius Erving

Age, Best, Basketball

I sort of kept my hand in writing and went to work for the Sierra Club in '52, walked the plank there in '69, founded Friends of the Earth and the League of Conservation Voters after that.
David R. Brower

Work, Writing, Friends

Let peace, descending from her native heaven, bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations; and plenty, in league with commerce, scatter blessings from her copious hand!
Daniel Boone

Peace, Blessings, Spring

I never was brought into the league thinking as far as, you know, statistics, things like that. We were really brought into the league in a team concept. Everything was focused around winning.
Mark Messier

Winning, Thinking, Everything

I was a halfback on an American football team in Athens, Greece - the Kississia Colts - where I went to high school, and we took the Cup my senior year. The downside, and somewhat unfortunate piece of information I have to pass on, is there were only two teams in the league because of the limited amount of Americans.
Greg Kinnear

School, Football, Two

I grew up with baseball; I played in Little League and went to games with my dad. But I, as I grew up, became more of a basketball fanatic than a baseball one.
Jonah Hill

Dad, Basketball, Baseball

I met wonderful people playing in the NBA. Whether it is the officials, the scorekeepers, all the people who work for the NBA, not just for the Lakers, but I'm talking about just for the league itself.
Magic Johnson

Work, Wonderful, Playing

I'm reachable for people, I'm not out of their league. I'm just a normal girl.
Alicia Silverstone

Umpires, like players, are expected to show constant improvement each season and at each level. Inconsistent plate work and the inability to handle situations are probably the two biggest problems that minor league umpires face.
Jim Evans

Work, Two, Problems

When I first got into the league, I tried to fit in. Now I don't care.
Dwyane Wade

Care, Tried, Fit

Brooks Robinson belongs in a higher league.
Pete Rose

Higher, Belongs, Brooks

Being a part of the National Football League for so long, I've come across so many trainers and equipment managers who've allowed me to be who I am today.
Junior Seau

Today, Long, Football

Little did we know then that CNN would become the big league.
Christiane Amanpour

Become, Big, Cnn

In the States, there's ESPN3, and each country has different options, and other than premiere league football, there tends to be very little global content. And movie and TV rights are pretty broad content.
Reed Hastings

Football, Different, Country

Sometimes you feel the emotion. You think this might be my last pre-season or my last Champions League match. But, overall, those thoughts aren't important right now. But the time will soon come.
Dennis Bergkamp

Time, Important, Thoughts

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