League Pick Quotes & Sayings

But even the tough, capable centurions gave Marcus speculative glances, as if seeking out his thoughts on their predicament. Marcus returned the glances with nothing but crisp salutes, letting them see the First Spear proceeding with business as usual. — Jim Butcher

These days, I find it harder to listen to really trebly lo-fi recordings. At the same time, without the old limitations, these new technologies require self control. So much of the software seems to be about correcting imperfections - quantizing, Auto-tune - and, to me, those corrections can really drain the life out of a performance. — Michael Dumontier

You learn something new from every player. No player is the same, so I'm definitely trying to pick up as much as I can from the guys ahead of me and from the guys who have been in the league for a long time. — Justin Cole

I believe it's a shoulder thing that goes up ... — Carolyn McCarthy

The sports page told me that the New Jersey Niggers had beaten the Boston Micks. Some player on the Houston Hebes had accused the San Antonio Spics of dropping their last game to get a higher draft pick. The league was expanding to Toronto, and since they had already honored African Americans, Irish Americans, Jewish Americans, and Hispanic Americans, they wanted to name a team to honor Native Americans. They — MariJo Moore

A year and a half up that little tributary somewhere?' Tillie said. 'Good God, — Lily King

But, granted that learning without love is sterile and dry, enthusiasm without learning can easily become blind arrogance. — N. T. Wright

You can pick any game and there are two or three plays that determine whether you win or lose, going either way. That's the beauty of the league, man. Every game counts, no matter who you're playing or what their record is. — Derrick Brooks

As a 20th round pick nothing was handed to me in the minor leagues. — Mike Lowell

I consciously memorized the speed at which every pitcher in the league threw his fastball, curve, and slider. Then, I'd pick up the speed of the ball in the first 30 feet of its flight and knew how it would move once it has crossed the plate. — Stan Musial

When you're a first-round pick and you get to the big leagues at 22, there's almost a sense that you've got to mature. — Evan Longoria

Maybe in the minor leagues. With my velocity, they would pick it up and say, 'Hey, you dropped something.' — Jay Feaster

Too many things to say. Too many things unsaid. — Kristen Heitzmann

True, luck may rule over parts of a person's life and luck may cast patches of shadow across the ground of our being, but where there's a WILL
much less a strong will to swim thirty laps or run twenty kilometers
there's a way to overcome most any trouble with whatever stepladders you have around. — Haruki Murakami

A Texas upbringing - and living now in Brooklyn, too - have surely helped my appreciation for open spaces and skies, but beyond that, it's not easy to find words for what it feels like to be up in the Rockies or out on the Great Basin - such silences and spaces! - or to be heading up into the Sierra Nevada Mountains. — Brian Floca

I played Little League and in high school. I played more over the years whenever there was a pick-up game ... usually softball. — Matthew Modine

Coroners' inquests by learned societies can't make Shakespeare a dead man. — Ellen Terry

When Boston and Orlando told me they were going to pick me at 21 and 22, I figured I don't need to do a workout for a second -round team. Boston and Orlando never drafted me because they said I was too skinny and no European point guard will make it in the League. — Tony Parker

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

Our brains were simple enough to be understood, we wouldn't be smart enough to understand them. — David Eagleman

The Patriots had picked Brady in the sixth round, and he soon turned out to be one of the two or three best quarterbacks in the League, and absolutely perfect for the Belichick system and for the team's offense. So, as the team continued to make a series of very good calls on other player personnel choices, there was a general tendency to talk about how brilliant Pioli and Belichick were, and to regard Pioli as the best young player personnel man in the League. Just to remind himself not to believe all the hype and that he could readily have screwed up on that draft, Pioli kept on his desk a photo of Brady, along with a photo of the team's fifth-round traft choice, the man he had taken ahead of Brady: Dave Stachelski. He was a Tight End from Boise State who never a played a down for New England. Stachelski was taken with the 141st pick, Brady with the 199th one. 'If I was so smart,' Pioli liked to say, 'I wouldn't have risked an entire round of the draft in picking Brady. — David Halberstam