Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.
When you think about little league football, high school, and even on to college even more so, you're dealing with a lot of guys that are prideful, that think they're the best - a lot of alpha males. So, typically, you've got to have a guy that can control those guys, and, when he talks, they know he means business. He's a serious guy.
The Covenant of the League of Nations had envisaged sponsoring only the protection of certain categories of men: national minorities and populations of territories controlled by other countries.
Watching National League pitchers trying to hit or even bunt is depressing.
If I see a roll of Bubble Tape, a bag of Haribo Gold-Bears or a pouch of green-apple Big League Chew, I'm eleven again.
I have loved but one flag and I can not share that devotion and give affection to the mongrel banner invented for the League of Nations.
It's funny, 'cause it seems like just yesterday that I was the youngest player just starting out. But now there are young players all over the league, and they'll ask me questions about playing overseas or finding an agent.
I think the Canadian Football League is a great league, but it's not the NFL, and I'm not Jerry Rice.
The European organisation contemplated could not oppose any ethnic group, on other continents or in Europe itself, outside of the League of Nations, any more than it could oppose the League of Nations.
When we got knocked out against Porto in the Champions League, I only slept two hours that night. I was not a nice person to be with after that match. I was struggling to get the result out of my system.
I would love to win the Champions League once again. Winning big trophies like the Champions League or the World Cup is usually making people think, 'The players are not hungry any more.' Still, that's not what I feel.
I had come to regard the U.S. Senate's rejection of the League of Nations as a tragic mistake.
I was always interested in baseball. In fact, in my younger years, I played it in an amateur way. But up to the time when I became identified with the Yankees, I was a strong National League rooter.
I won the most important league in Europe, I think - not just Europe but the world - the Premier League.
Every year, I strive to be the best defensive player in the league.
I've got lots of friends who are musicians, and there is a fair proportion of broken marriages and relationships as a result. You are on the move all the time. It's difficult if you have kids, and it's hard to make money unless you are in the premier league.
The thing I enjoy is that I have come to league as a union player, and I have to adapt to different situations I am facing.
We also need people like social workers, volunteers, the Christian Industrial League, drug treatment programs to make sure you are getting them a job. That's what you have to do. Otherwise, we just keep stepping around these things.
You have to be ready for all the games and be at 100 per cent if you want to win in this League.
I was nicknamed Skeeter in Little League because I was small and fast, like a mosquito flying across the outfield.
I'm very thankful to the Yankees and to Major League Baseball for allowing me to play this game.
When I first came into the league, I followed my parents for everything. Now, I'm really doing stuff on my own.
We're going for the joke on 'Children's Hospital,' and we're going for the joke on 'The League.' It's fun to go between shows, but you have to mentally remind yourself what show you're on.
I was playing little league baseball when Bruce Jenner was winning the gold but I don't think I was really paying attention at that time.
Our parents helped us, or we wouldn't be here. Lacy Van Zant and my mother used to sign for amps or loan us money to get to the gig or take us in their car. It's just like little sports guys - Little League and football players - whose parents help them. That's why they get good.
The best example of how impossible it will be for Major League Baseball to crack down on steroids is the fact that baseball and the media are still talking about the problem as 'steroids.'
After one year in the Texas League, the American League bought the rights to my contract. They optioned me back to the Texas League for the 1970 season.
For years the league has thought I've been on drugs. I would have burned out a long time ago if that was true.
A lot of players know I've been around 13 years and this is my second lockout. I got a lot of respect. I know what's going on both for the league and the union.
I certainly didn't think of myself as gifted. The standards for being gifted in my environment were if you were good in Little League or if you were good in football.
I felt like I was selling a product of the University of Georgia that's really special and really special to me as far as the education you can get, the development you can get, and the league we play in. That's what I've sold.
My experience with the Junior League, when I worked in Philadelphia for four years in reference to children's things, is that whenever they were asked they responded. They always responded with sincerity, and they did a good job.
I grew up in a strongly socialist family. While I was at school, I worked in party politics and with organizations like the Anti-Nazi League. Everywhere I saw it, I fought prejudice.
My dad played rugby, so I used to watch a lot of rugby union and rugby league.
And that's why, you know, it's players like Randy Moss that unfortunately put a stain on the entire league.
This is the thing you dream about when you're a kid, even before getting into the league.
