Balls Quotations

It's only a hitch when you're in a slump. When you're hitting the ball its called rhythm.

My fingers are too short to enable me to get grip enough on the ball to pitch a deep curve, so that I have been compelled to depend more on drops, straight balls and the different artifices known to pitchers to deceive the batter.

I wanted to be a sportswriter because I loved sports and I could not hit the curve ball, the jump shot, or the opposing ball carrier.

He sliced the ball when he had it on a plate.

I feel more comfortable with the ball in my hands, playing the point guard. But I like playing the 2, too. I think I bring tough defense and the ability to score and also get my teammates the ball to score.

The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball.

Behind every kick of the ball there has to be a thought.

Swing hard, in case they throw the ball where you're swinging.

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.

Building a mechanical device for its appearance is like putting lace on a bowling ball.

I threw a lot of balls and walked a lot of batters. Not something I'm proud of, but something I learned from.

In my own case I have frequently faced the pitcher when I had no desire whatever to hit. I wanted to get a base on balls.

Place hitting is, in a sense, glorified bunting. I only take a half swing at the ball, and the weight of the bat rather than my swing is what drives it.

The deeper you get into the playoffs, obviously the better the opponent is. Which means they'll be better defensively, they'll rebound better, they don't turn the ball over.

But, at the moment, when I step on the pitch, when I have the ball I know it's mine. It's just a feeling.

They throw the ball, I hit it. They hit the ball, I catch it.

You feel very romantic when you're in a ball gown. Everyone should wear one once in a while.

You got the ball in your hands and you're in command, and if you get your good pitch where you want it, nobody's gonna hit you.

I try to penetrate the lane like Steve Nash, pass like Jason Kidd, and handle the ball like Allen Iverson. Remember, I said 'try to'.

He hits it long. His shoulders are impressively quick through the ball. That's where he's getting his power from. He's young and has great elasticity.

I always thought I could play pro ball. I had confidence in my ability, You have to. If you don't who will?

Logistics is the ball and chain of armored warfare.

Sometimes, it's good to have a tremendous star, because everyone understands he has to get the ball.

They have so fundamentally flawed techniques it's ridiculous. They shoot the ball flat. They all stand upright, there's just so many things they do incorrectly.

If you run the ball, you control the clock. If you control the clock, you usually control the game.

For all the fun, don't forget: I always knew when to put my golf balls down and practice.

I learned early on to never walk while I was on the ball field. I ran everywhere I went.

Concealing an illness is like keeping a beach ball under water.

Isn't an agnostic just an atheist without balls?

My mind started wandering. I started playing carefully, instead of playing the way that had gotten me to that point. I had to force myself to keep driving the ball.

I try to hit the ball along the ground, especially against fast bowlers. I also like the bat to come down in the right position and check if my body position is correct. If I'm really watching the ball carefully, then automatically I'm in a good position to hit it down the ground.

I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your legs don't move and you can't take a deep breath. You start to hit the ball about a yard wide, instead of inches.

While playing golf today I hit two good balls. I stepped on a rake.

When I see three balls, I just swing at the middle one.

I juggle a lot of different balls and sometimes I don't know how I manage to keep them all up in the air, but I do!

The only thing I can do is play baseball. I have to play ball. It's the only thing I know.

My dad used to wake me up at 5:30 in the morning and hit me ground balls and tell me, 'Don't be afraid to excel. Don't be afraid to be great.'

Ross Perot. I could have had a ball with him.

I always tried to hit the ball back through the box because that is the largest unprotected area.

For three years, the 'Meistersinger' score was a ball and chain to me. It went with me to every city and concert hall.

A cricket ball broke my nose when I was a kid so I couldn't breath through it. Before I had it operated on I used to stand on stage with my mouth slightly open.

Having Willie Stargell on your ball club is like having a diamond ring on your finger.

I'm not a ball in a pinball machine. I know what I want.

Nolan Ryan is pitching much better now that he has his curve ball straightened out.

It doesn't matter who scores the points, it's who can get the ball to the scorer.

I say if you're going to take a chance on something, you just go full balls to the wall.

When I throw a ground ball, I expect it to be an out, maybe two.

I think I play center field better than I do anywhere else. I have enough speed and enough reaction to know where the ball goes off the bat.

I have good anticipation, and good reaction to the the ball because I've played so many matches in my life.

He's so ugly. When you walked by him, your pants wrinkle. He made fly balls curve foul.

The slow-motion replay doesn't show how fast the ball was really travelling.

October: that's when they pay off for playing ball.

I don't really believe in palm readers and crystal balls and tarot cards, but I respond to the need for them.

To be a good hitter you've got to do one thing - get a good ball to hit.

You don't just throw the ball - you propel it.

You have to have a catcher because if you don't you're likely to have a lot of passed balls.

I love playing football, being out on the pitch with a ball, and I will be a little sad when that ends.

A ball had passed between my body and the right arm which supported him, cutting through the sleeve and passing through his chest from shoulder to shoulder. There was no more to be done for him and I left him to his rest. I have never mended that hole in my sleeve.

Architecture has curled up in a ball and it's about itself. It has found itself either as a freakshow, where you're not sure if it's good or bad but at least it's interesting, or at the behest of forces of commerce.

I always keep a ball in the car. You never know.

Everything I did that required effort, I opened my mouth. Even to catch a ball, I opened my mouth

I'm attracted to soccer's capacity for beauty. When well played, the game is a dance with a ball.

Bits and pieces flung into the universe, sticking in the sky like cotton balls on a jet black velcro surface.

I feel that every time I get the ball at the moment I am going to score.

I said I would do all the films about the commercials, and the films about ball-bearings and Ford tractors and so on, if once a year they gave me money for a free film.

These greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow.

I keep waiting to meet a man who has more balls than I do.

I believe you should give 100% on the court, so I chase every ball.

If you meet the Buddha in the lane, feed him the ball.

My music is like a spinning ball. It can turn in one direction, and then it comes back to origins.

Life is easy when you're hot. But what happens when the ball bounces the other way? You just keep getting back up and climbing up.

But through experience I learned to control my body and locate the ball.

With a tennis racket strapped tightly to her hiking pack, Martina Navratilova began her ascent of Mount Kilimanjaro. The tennis legend had visions of celebrating at the summit of Africa's highest peak by hitting a couple balls to see how far they might fly in the thin air at 19,341 feet.

The golf ball has no sense at all, which is why it has to be given stern lectures constantly, especially during the act of putting.

The foreign press seems obsessed with the Freedom Tower, as if it was the only thing going on here. In fact, we're trying to keep a huge juggling act in balance, with the tower as just one of the many balls in play.

I remember playing football dressed in peculiar costumes with some friends in France and laughing so hard we couldn't even stand up, let alone kick the ball.

It's fun when the ball is going in the hole and things are going right, but it's a miserable game when things aren't going well.

In the very beginning whenever Mia Hamm or Brandi Chastain would call for the ball, I'd just give it to them immediately because it was them and I was nervous.

I guess I do prefer a ball cap. I have performed without a cap, mostly at funerals and weddings.

Balls and strikes are the basic tenet to everything in baseball. From the perspective of hitting, pitching, offense and defense, it's all about the strike zone and how the battle is waged there between the pitcher and hitter.

Every time I fumble or drop a ball I am embarrassed.

You can teach all the other stuff, you know. You can teach shooting the ball, you can teach having a good touch... passing and whatnot, but when you get out there on the field, it's just a mindset you need to go into the game with.

When you can throw 97 miles an hour and put the ball over the plate anytime you want, it's fun.

Don't worry about it. It's just a bunch of guys with an odd-shaped ball.

Our fielders have to catch a lot of balls, or at least deflect them to someone who can.

I guess the biggest thing is that I committed to a spiritual center before I do anything else. And I put some daily things in my life into practice and I maintain that, to make sure that I don't drop the ball.

It was kind of ridiculous to carry it up to a certain point and then drop the ball or the bomb, like quitting the band right after we had signed to Virgin.

As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along with the ballplayers. I love a ball game.

Then there's Johnny Pesky, hit me countless number of ground balls and improved my fielding so much.

I never had only one job. I was either playing ball or writing or doing TV or modeling.

A little more movement of the defensive side of the ball, some rules that will be unnoticed, but a big rule will be allowing the jack linebacker to move out of the box sideline to sideline.

You gotta keep the ball off the fat part of the bat.

I'm not going to put my energy into dunking every time I get the ball. That's stupid.

Politicians who wear little tennis socks with the balls at the back should not be taken seriously.

Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball.

I had to have some balls to be Irish Catholic in South London. Most of that time I spent fighting.

For me, fielding is everything - it is a passion that comes from within. You can get a bad ball while you bat, and your bowling may not always be up there, but you are completely in control of how well you field.

She's probably in denial that she's a great big ball of insecurity and I'm quite well aware that I am one.

It's not like learning how to hit a curve ball in baseball.

I looked for the same pitch my whole career, a breaking ball. All of the time. I never worried about the fastball. They couldn't throw it past me, none of them.