Ball Games Quotes:

I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it.

- Sandy Koufax

topic: Sports, Baseball, Athlete, Inspirational Baseball, Motivational Baseball

When they start the game, they don't yell, "Work ball." They say, "Play ball."

- Willie Stargell

topic: Baseball, Games, Play, Opening Day Baseball, Little League Baseball

A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Being Strong, Nature, Character, Mind Games, Mind And Body

It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square.

- Pete Rose

topic: Sports, Baseball, Athlete, Inspirational Baseball, Baseball Player

During my 18 years I came to bat almost 10,000 times. I struck out about 1,700 times and walked maybe 1,800 times. You figure a ballplayer will average about 500 at bats a season. That means I played seven years without ever hitting the ball.

- Mickey Mantle

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Athlete, Mean, Average, Favorite Sports, Baseball Games

Every hitter likes fastballs, just like everybody likes ice cream. But you don't like it when someone's stuffing it into you by the gallon. That's what it feels like when Nolan Ryan's thrown balls by you.

- Reggie Jackson

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Baseball, Ice Cream, Mlb, Inspirational Baseball, Opening Day Baseball

Football is a simple game based on the giving and taking of passes, of controlling the ball and of making yourself available to receive a pass. It is terribly simple.

- Bill Shankly

source: "Steppe change: how Gareth Southgate became a management guru in Russia" by Stefan Stern, www.theguardian.com. June 28, 2018.

topic: Soccer, Football, Simple, Liverpool Fc, Football Game

Well, boys, it's a round ball and a round bat and you got to hit the ball square.

- Joe Schultz

topic: Baseball, Boys, Squares, Baseball Games, Inspirational Baseball

I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.

- Rogers Hornsby

topic: Baseball, Golf, Mlb, Baseball Games, Inspirational Baseball

Don't tell me about the world. Not today. It's springtime and they're knocking baseball around fields where the grass is damp and green in the morning and the kids are trying to hit the curve ball.

- Pete Hamill

topic: Baseball, Morning, Kids, Baseball Games, Spring Training

You're gonna lose some ball games and you're gonna win some ball games and that's about it.

- Sparky Anderson

topic: Winning, Games, Gambling, Ball Games

Watching a ball game is one of the sweetest pleasures in the world.

- Silvia Tennenbaum

topic: Sports, Games, Balls, Ball Games

It's important for the young players to practice other ball games as well, basketball or table tennis. On the tennis court, you can improve your eye through a kind of overexertion.

- Rafael Nadal

source: Source: www.spiegel.de

topic: Basketball, Eye, Player, Tennis Courts, Ball Games

Most young people haven't used their storytelling skills since they were 8 or 9 or 10 and wanted to persuade Mom and Dad to take them to the ball game.

- Peter Guber

topic: Mom, Dad, Games, Ball Games

Most ball games are lost, not won.

- Casey Stengel

topic: Sports, Games, Lost Friendship, Ball Games

Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

- Salman Rushdie

topic: Games, Balls, Speech, Freedom Of Expression, Limiting Freedom Of Expression

And of course in America you've got American football and baseball and all those other ball games, soccer has become a little niche that the women have kind of filled.

- Parminder Nagra

source: Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. August 7, 2003.

topic: Soccer, Football, Baseball, Ball Games

I was not able to work up much enthusiasm over the ball game, and in the midst of it I was handed a note informing me of the sudden death of Senator Dwight morrow. He had proved a great pillar of strength in the senate and his death was a great loss to the country and to me. I left the ballpark with the chant of the crowd ringing in my ears, 'We Want Beer!'

- Herbert Hoover

source: Herbert Hoover, (2013). “The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover - The Great Depression, 1929-1941”, p.90, Read Books Ltd

topic: Country, Baseball, Loss, Dwight, Sudden Death

Yelling doesn't win ball games. It doesn't put any points on the scoreboard. And I don't think words win ball games all the time. Players do. Preparation does.

- Jerry Tarkanian

topic: Wrestling, Thinking, Winning, Scoreboard, Ball Games

I cannot consider fighting in competitive Manly Fun any more than I can consider pitting my running, swimming or climbing body against other bodies. Nothing, then, or now, arouses me or will ever arouse me from a perfect disinterest in ball games.

- Hal Porter

topic: Sports, Running, Fun, Disinterest, Ball Games

I have always felt that although someone may defeat me, and I strike out in a ball game, the pitcher on the particular day was the best player. But I know when I see him again, Im going to be ready for his curve ball. Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.

- Hank Aaron

topic: Player, Curves, Games, Bed Of Roses, Ball Games

Our age has become so mechanical that this has also affected our recreation. People have gotten used to sitting down and watching a movie, a ball game, a television set. It may be good once in a while, but it certainly is not good all the time. Our own faculties, our imagination, our memory, the ability to do things with our mind and our hands-they need to be exercised. If we become too passive, we get dissatisfied.

- Maria von Trapp

topic: Memories, Hands, Games, Ball Games

When I am working it is up early and coffee and 15 hours of being on the set. When I am not working, it is up late and coffee, golf or softball and hopefully a ball game on the television.

- Mackenzie Astin

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Softball, Coffee, Golf, Ballgame, Ball Games

Though I like the various forms of football in the world, I don't think they begin to compare with these two great Anglo-Saxon ball games for sophisticated elegance and symbolism. Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base - in both senses - greed. With football we are back to the monotonous clashing armor of the brontosaurus.

- John Fowles

topic: Beautiful, Football, Baseball, Monotonous, Cricket Funny

Go on daddy-daughter dates and father-and-sons' outings with your children. As a family, go on campouts and picnics, to ball games and recitals, to school programs, and so forth. Having Dad there makes all the difference.

- Ezra Taft Benson

topic: Daughter, Dad, Children, Recitals, Ball Games

Hitting a golf ball correctly is the most sophisticated and complicated maneuver in all of sports, with the possible exception of eating a hot dog at a ball game without getting mustard on your shirt.

- Ray Fitzgerald

topic: Sports, Dog, Golf, Mustard, Ball Games

The same church members who yell like Comanche Indians at a ball game on Saturday sit like wooden Indians in church on Sunday.

- Vance Havner

topic: Sunday, Games, Church, Church Members, Church On Sunday

So, it becomes an exercise in futility if you write something that does not express the film as the director wishes. It's still their ball game. It's their show. I think any successful composer learns how to dance around the director's impulses.

- Danny Elfman

topic: Writing, Successful, Exercise, Ballgame, Ball Games

What do you imagine the American people would think of me if I wasted my time going to the ball game?

- Grover Cleveland

topic: Thinking, Games, People, Wasted My Time, Ball Games

Does one eat peanuts at a ball game?' 'It ain't hardly legal if you don't.

- Edna Ferber

topic: Baseball, Games, Doe, Ball Games

A barber is by nature and inclination a sport. He can tell you at what exact hour the ball game is to begin, can foretell its issue without losing a stroke of the razor, and can explain the points of inferiority of all the players, as compared with the better men that he has personally seen elsewhere, with the nicety of a professional.

- Stephen Leacock

topic: Sports, Player, Men, Barbers, Ball Games

In real life I'm not the character I play in my films. I'm reasonably competent, I work very hard, I'm disciplined, I lead a very middle class life. I work in the mornings, I have lunch, I practise my clarinet, I go to the movies, I eat out in restaurants or watch ball games on television or at the ball games.

- Woody Allen

topic: Morning, Real, Character, Middle Class Life, Clarinet

Reading scripts is actually quite a relaxing part of the job. Strangely relaxing. This is a whole different ball game.

- Jack O'Connell

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Jobs, Reading, Games, Ball Games

I'm mad at him, too, for being out late. But I'm not mad enough to take a chance on losing a ball game and possibly the pennant.

- Casey Stengel

topic: Baseball, Games, Mad, Ball Games, Mad At Him

I've found is that by doing stand-up, I've actually learned how to combat depression. I don't have clinical, but I've definitely had my bouts with it. I just figured out that it's a choice. You're in control of your brain. When your brain is sending you bad information or bad thoughts, you can decide to go to the gym, or write a new joke - or if you're on the road, go to a ball game... something that's going to get the blood going. Or you can let those thoughts take you right down the rabbit hole.

- Bill Burr

topic: Writing, Blood, Games, Bad Thoughts, Rabbit Holes

That's the name of the game ... pleasing the customer. If we ever lose sight of that fact, we've lost the ball game.

- Ray Kroc

topic: Games, Names, Sight, Ball Games

When your blood is found at the murder scene, that's the end of the ball game, there's nothing more to say.

- Vincent Bugliosi

source: Source: www.cyinterview.com

topic: Blood, Games, Balls, Ball Games

I knew if we could pull in the Stephen King fans, we'd have a ball game. The point at which I finally became confident of the audience interest was when I showed up at one of the Marvel midnight openings to launch the very first issue of Dark Tower.

- Peter David

source: Source: www.graphicnovelreporter.com

topic: Kings, Dark, Games, Dark Tower, Ball Games

I'm not a fearful person, but I'm a pretty pessimistic person. So some of my best times are waiting, anticipating. That's the way it always has been with me, whether anticipating a ball game, anticipating a relationship.

- John Edgar Wideman

source: Source: www.motherjones.com

topic: Ball Games

I like to go see a ball game. I'll have seven, eight, nine - 10 beers, and the second inning will roll around, and I gotta go.

- Doug Benson

topic: Beer, Games, Eight, Ball Games

Being an entrepreneur, everyone needs to hear a personal anecdote from you once in a while or see you go out of your way to make someone's day. Maybe it's time for a party at your house to unwind, or an afternoon off with the team to attend the ball game.

- Martin Zwilling

source: Source: www.foxnews.com

topic: Team, Party, Games, Unwind, Ball Games

I think the Americans don't understand that this is a complicated new ball game. People everywhere have seen that a few determined people who were not scared to die can create a huge upheaval within a major superpower.

- Imran Khan

topic: Thinking, Games, People, Ball Games

Movies are a whole different ball-game, now. It's much more of a business - very scientific.

- Sylvester Stallone

source: Source: www.gamesradar.com

topic: Games, Different, Balls, Ball Games

Will TV kill the theater? If the programs I have seen, save for "Kukla, Fran and Ollie," the ball games and the fights, are any criterion, the theater need not wake up in a cold sweat.

- Tallulah Bankhead

topic: Fighting, Games, Sweat, Ball Games

The fellow who can pay only twenty-five cents to see a ball game always will be just as welcome at Comiskey Park as the box seat holder.

- Charles Comiskey

topic: Games, Twenties, Balls, Ball Games

I can sit all day in a comfortable chair and watch ball games, but I don't need a blanket.

- Don Rickles

source: "What I've Learned: Don Rickles". Interview with Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

topic: Games, Watches, Needs, Ball Games

The web site and the Internet are a whole new ball game.

- Johnny Ramistella

topic: Games, Balls, Internet, Ball Games

When you go to South Africa, you get a different vibe and a different sound. The music is awesome the people are loving it. When you go to Botswana, it's a different ball game. The people out there love Afro Beat Hip Hop so much. When you go to Sierra Leone it's different, when you go to Nigeria it's different... It's all pretty exciting!

- Ice Prince

source: Source: mobo.com

topic: Games, People, Hip Hop, Sierra Leone, Afros

If you go to the ball game, you don't need to read the game story.

- Jim Lehrer

topic: Games, Needs, Balls, Ball Games