Balls famous quotes
05-15-2025
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You can't turn the ball over and expect to win.
-- Aaron Rodgers -
I really hate it when I can’t score runs from a ball.
-- AB de Villiers -
Playing on turf affects everything, you know, it affects the way the ball rolls, it affects the way the ball bounces, it affects the way you think about whether or not going into a slide. It's kind of a nightmare.
-- Abby Wambach -
It's a tremendous responsibility to be direct descendants of the prophet Muhammad. This family has had the burden of leadership on its shoulders for 1,400 years. I'm not going to drop the ball on my shift.
-- Abdallah II -
I'm not scared at all... Of the cracks in the crystal ball.
-- Adam Lambert -
Byrd has always been that kind of pitcher, trying to trick you, keep the ball low, in and out. He threw a lot of strikes, worked it inside and out, threw breaking balls for strikes behind in the count.
-- Adrian Beltre -
I can catch the ball. You've got to throw it to me.
-- Adrian Peterson -
In this life all that I have is my word and my balls and I do not break them for nobody.
-- Al Capone -
I've come to realize that I perform best when I'm letting my subconscious mind hit the ball and my conscious mind is otherwise occupied.
-- Al Geiberger -
The only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.
-- Al Pacino -
Everything my mother made had to cook for 80 hours, and when she made matzoh balls she didn't know fluffy. Everything sank.
-- Alan King -
The ball was literally glued to the back of his foot - into the back of the net.
-- Alan Parry -
I always dreamed about scoring at St. James' Park. I fancied my chances and the ball flew into the net. I was ecstatic.
-- Alan Shearer -
I have always said that the best feeling in the world is scoring a goal. Don't tell my missus that, but it is. When that ball hits the back of the net, it is fantastic.
-- Alan Shearer -
I consider myself a line drive hitter with power. I just try to put my best swing on the ball every time.
-- Albert Pujols -
The best have the courage and I say this all the time. The courage to take the ball all the time, the courage to make sure that they are not going to be intimidated by their opponents, and the courage to express themselves at all times and I think that all the great players have got that.
-- Alex Ferguson -
I hit the ball early and move my wrist a lot, so I get bigger angles.
-- Alexandr Dolgopolov -
The ball gave me prestige, gave me fame, gave me riches. Thank you, my old friend.
-- Alfredo Di Stefano -
Some maniac butcher is trying to hack away your balls.
-- Alice Cooper -
One of the things you have to learn is that you don't have to have the ball all the time to be effective.
-- Allen Iverson -
Working mothers' laughter comes hardest when our double life is revealed for what it is: a juggling act in which the balls can drop at any time, invariably on our own head.
-- Allison Pearson -
Slow thinkers are part of the game too. Some of these slow thinkers can hit a ball a long way.
-- Alvin Dark -
I get on base by making good contact with the ball. But whenever I hit a home run, I'm as surprised as everybody else.
-- Amos Otis -
The fact of the matter is, when I'm on tour, I'm juggling so hard to keep all the balls in the air that I don't often get to really enjoy what I'm out there doing.
-- Amy Grant -
Hitting a ball dead perfect - the only peace.
-- Andre Agassi -
I'm not going to put my energy into dunking every time I get the ball. That's stupid.
-- Andrew Bogut -
You're gonna get thrown curve balls left and right, and that's just the way it goes.
-- Andrew McMahon -
Building a mechanical device for its appearance is like putting lace on a bowling ball.
-- Andrew Vachss -
It's a lot harder to play football when you haven't got the ball.
-- Andy Gray -
I don’t know if Barcelona have ever gone to a place like the Britannia Stadium and suffered the kind of onslaught from Tony Pulis’ team of long throws and free-kicks or been up to a place like Blackburn and been beaten up by their long ball into the box.
-- Andy Gray -
I believe you should give 100% on the court, so I chase every ball.
-- Andy Murray -
I enjoy hitting tennis balls. I haven't lost any of the innocent parts of tennis. I just do it in front of less people.
-- Andy Roddick -
Life... is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply won't be got rid of.
-- Anita Brookner -
When a man wears his pants that tight, they tend to pinch his balls, and that tends to pinch his temper.
-- Anne Bishop -
When Mia Hamm touches the ball, you just hold your breath.
-- Anson Dorrance -
One thing I've learned over time is, if you hit a golf ball into water, it won't float.
-- Arnold Palmer -
Even before you step up to the ball, have a full battle plan for the hole worked out.
-- Arnold Palmer -
I am not against being pragmatic, because it is pragmatic to make a good pass, not a bad one. If I have the ball, what do I do with it? Could anybody argue that a bad solution like just kicking it away is pragmatic just because, sometimes, it works by accident?
-- Arsene Wenger -
It is nasty when you're playing in someone else's house to point out that they don't have enough balls.
-- Arthur Adamov -
Someone once told me that God figured that I was a pretty good juggler. I could keep a lot of balls in the air at one time. So He said, "Let's see if he can juggle another one."
-- Arthur Ashe -
I also played with Jimi Hendrix. Jimi would come down and sit in with Retaliation and we would have a ball. He offered me the gig with him at 20 pounds a week, which at that point, was like 60 bucks.
-- Aynsley Dunbar -
That little white ball won't move until you hit it, and there's nothing you can do after it has gone.
-- Babe Didrikson Zaharias -
But the truth is that L.A. was never entirely real anyway, as Steely Dan, Randy Newman, Warren Zevon, Larry David and Alan Ball all understood.
-- Barney Hoskyns -
The crowd think that Todd handled the ball...they must have seen something that nobody else did.
-- Barry Davies -
The Croatians don't play well without the ball.
-- Barry Venison -
But, if you miss (the supposedly easy pin) by just a little bit, you're looking at the next putt from 30 feet. The ball just rolls away.
-- Ben Crenshaw -
You only hit a straight ball by accident. The ball is going to move right or left every time you hit it, so you had better make it go one way or the other.
-- Ben Hogan -
It's just a matter of hitting the ball where I want to hit it and hopefully making some putts.
-- Bernhard Langer -
Everything I did that required effort, I opened my mouth. Even to catch a ball, I opened my mouth
-- Betty Cuthbert -
A good friend of mine was Lucy Ball. Her mother and my mother were best friends.
-- Betty White -
He (Babe Ruth) hits a ball harder and further than any man I ever saw.
-- Bill Dickey -
If I were catching blindfolded, I'd always know when it was Foxx who connected. He hit the ball harder than anyone else.
-- Bill Dickey -
My goodness, that wee ball's gone so high there'll be snow on it when it comes down.
-- Bill McLaren -
Don't worry about it. It's just a bunch of guys with an odd-shaped ball.
-- Bill Parcells -
Just because you didn't get your way, don't take your ball and go home.
-- Bill Rancic -
Don't knock the ball in the stands, keep it in your hands!
-- Bill Russell -
If you're not sure what to do with the ball, just pop it in the net and we'll discuss your options afterwards.
-- Bill Shankly -
When you intercept the ball with your stomach, that is great defense
-- Bill Walton -
It's about time for Lindell White to get back on the floor, expose himself, and get the ball in a scoring position.
-- Billy Packer -
We're out playing ball in the gym, I put boogers on the basketball and pass it to him.
-- Biz Markie -
And even when success comes, as I am sure it will, bear in mind that there are more quiet and enviable joys than to be among the most sought after women at a ball...
-- Blanche Wiesen Cook -
Where the ball went was up to heaven. Sometimes I threw the ball clean up into the stands.
-- Bob Feller -
If you're in the penalty area and don't know what to do with the ball, put it in the net and we'll discuss the options later.
-- Bob Paisley -
It's not about the long ball or the short ball, it's about the right ball.
-- Bob Paisley -
I don't want to say [the teams] are mirror images of each other, ... but there's a lot of similarities on both sides of the ball.
-- Bob Stoops -
Tito Santana is like a cue-ball. The more you strike him, the more english you get out of him.
-- Bobby Heenan -
I always like to see a person stand up to a golf ball as though he were perfectly at home in its presence.
-- Bobby Jones -
As I see it, the thing that hurt my putting most when it was bad, was thinking too much about how I was making the stroke and not enough about getting the ball in the hole.
-- Bobby Jones -
Bad putting is due more to the effect the green has upon the player than it has upon the action of the ball.
-- Bobby Jones -
You play ball against yourself; your opponent is your potential.
-- Bobby Knight -
She's probably in denial that she's a great big ball of insecurity and I'm quite well aware that I am one.
-- Boy George -
The man with the ball is responsible for what happens to the ball.
-- Branch Rickey -
That ability to press immediately, within five or six seconds to get the ball, is important
-- Brendan Rodgers -
When you've got the ball 65-70% of the time, it's a football death for the other team...It's death by football.
-- Brendan Rodgers -
I can't even spell spaghetti never mind talk Italian. How could I tell an Italian to get the ball - he might grab mine.
-- Brian Clough -
Jazz is all about improvisation and it's about the moment in time, doing it this way now, and you'll never do it this way twice. I've studied the masters. Why would I want to play ball after the guys who sit on a bench? I want to play like Michael Jordan.
-- Brian McKnight -
I would probably be a linebacker today. I wouldn't be carrying the ball 20 or 25 times a game.
-- Bronko Nagurski -
Talking to a golf ball won't do you any good, unless you do it while your opponent is teeing off.
-- Bruce Lansky -
What's the point of washing off your ball when teeing off on a water hole?
-- Bruce Lansky -
It's about hitting the ball in the center of the club face and hitting it hard.
-- Bubba Watson -
I just wouldn't have believed a ball could be hit that hard. I've never seen anything like it.
-- Bucky Harris -
Once when I was golfing in Georgia, I hooked the ball into the swamp. I went in after it and found an alligator wearing a shirt with a picture of a little golfer on it.
-- Buddy Hackett -
There are three kinds of forms in the human figure: Ovoid forms - egg, ball and barrel masses; Column forms - cylinder, cone; Spatulate forms - box, slab and wedge blocks.
-- Burne Hogarth -
I'm just playing ball. Trying not to think about it too much.
-- Buster Posey -
I'd punch that ***** in the balls before I'd cup him for comfort.
-- Calamity Jane -
There's times when you catch a ball and really didn't even see that ball. You're like, 'That couldn't have been all me.'
-- Calvin Johnson -
I like to run the slants. The slants are cool. I like routes that you can catch the ball running.
-- Calvin Johnson -
I don't really get too frustrated. I know I'm going to get the ball.
-- Calvin Johnson -
A glittering disco ball spins from the ceiling, but the music is something I've never heard, discordant and haunting and insistent, the kind of music that demands you dance.
-- Candace Bushnell -
I had no chance of controlling a ball game until I first controlled myself.
-- Carl Hubbell -
Every time I step in between those lines, I'm in the zone. If you get between me and the ball, you might get smashed a couple times. Things happen, plays happen.
-- Carli Lloyd -
You don't win a game by hitting the ball out of the court.
-- Carlos Ruiz Zafon -
Allen Iverson is a ball hog. You will never win a championship with him on your team.
-- Carmelo Anthony -
I have a belief that life isn't about balance, because balance is perfection Rather, it's about catching the ball before it hits the floor.
-- Carol Bartz
