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

I've never seen radio as the minor leagues, where I'm just really preparing to be in the show that really counts, namely, television, which is, I think, what people often assume. I've never felt that way.

Terry Gross

I cannot consent to be led three or four hundred leagues out of my route, without its being by force of arms.

Zebulon Pike

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

Dennis Eckersley

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

Nick Johnson

I was in the big leagues my first year in pro ball - pretty fast. I really don't think I had an understanding of what it meant to be a pitcher at that level at that point.

Drew Pomeranz

There's apparently soccer leagues that they've set up with young Indian girls.

Parminder Nagra

It's that way all the way down the line. I've got a boy coaching college ball and another son coaching high school. All the way down to summer leagues, all the way down to kids who are 14 years old. All those teams have a closer.

Bruce Sutter

I feel like a pioneer with the split-fingered fastball. I was the first one to really throw it pretty much 100 percent of the time. It was a pitch that I had to have. If I didn't have it, I wouldn't have been in the big leagues.

Bruce Sutter

Marlins Park is what I call my office in Miami, because I work for the Venezuelan Museum of Baseball and Hall of Fame. My job is to go to all the MLB stadiums and to talk to and collect articles from all the Venezuelan players in the big leagues and those Americans that played in Venezuela.

Juan Pablo Galavis

My message to a lot of guys is, if you like school and you like education, baseball is gonna be there, and you can get some of the same great competition in college that you do in the low minor leagues.

Barry Larkin

Winston Cup and the Busch Series are two totally different leagues. You get put in different situations.

Adam Petty

I've put in 63 years now in the big leagues as a player, coach, manager. And now just being around these young guys, it keeps you going pretty good.

Red Schoendienst

Stood off and on during the night, determining not to come to anchor till morning, fearing to meet with shoals; continued our course in the morning; and as the island was found to be six or seven leagues distant, and the tide was against us, it was noon when we arrived there.

Christopher Columbus

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

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

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

When I was 16 years old, my brother Frank said, 'You'd better become a catcher, because you're too big and fat to do anything else.' Well, I took his advice. It was a quick way to get to the big leagues, and I've never regretted it.

Joe Torre

We used to play a lot outdoors, not in leagues, but just in our spare time.

Steve Yzerman

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

I guess what really made me a Dodgers fan from the beginning was that the team had Jackie Robinson, the first 'Negro' in the major leagues.

Cheech Marin

When I was growing up, there weren't any Little Leagues in the city. Parents worked all the time. They didn't have time to take their kids out to play baseball and football.

Mike Krzyzewski

Well, I wanted to play twenty years in the major leagues. I never made it twenty though. I played nineteen.

Bert Campaneris

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

Ted Williams

I found that part of it towards San Salvador extending from north to south five leagues, and the other side which we coasted along, ran from east to west more than ten leagues.

Christopher Columbus

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

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

Any time you're in the coaching business or managing in the minor leagues, when you see a player who has made it to the major leagues, you get a thrill out of that.

Ryne Sandberg

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

Gary Carter

My first year in the big leagues, I made $17,000. It was easy to go out and get another $17,000 relief pitcher. I never worried about innings or pitches. I just pitched.

Bruce Sutter

I perform in the major leagues of what I do. It's incredible.

Darrell Hammond

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

I want to finish my career in Cleveland. They gave me the opportunity to play in the big leagues.

Asdrubal Cabrera

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

If you seriously aspire to be a manager in the big leagues, there is a baseball 'book' that one must learn. Alongside that book, you must practice Spanish. Of 25 players on each roster, sometimes there are between eight and 15 players who speak Spanish.

Tony La Russa

Every franchise of both leagues will remain in its present location.

Pete Rozelle

Every college player thinks they're on their way. But, delusions aside, I might have toiled in the minor leagues for a bit.

Richard Linklater