Balls Quotations | Page 3

The landscape in Montgomery and in the South is just saturated with imagery. Markers are everywhere. There's a marker for the first Confederate post office, there's a marker for a ball that Robert E. Lee hosted, there's a marker for where Jefferson Davis had a meeting. We love reminding people about all that was going on in the mid-nineteenth century.

I'd punch that cocksucker in the balls before I'd cup him for comfort.

All that analysis is well and good, but what I need right now is a left-handed batter who can hit the ball over the shortstop's head.

That kid can hit balls over buildings.

Amazing strength, amazing power - he (Ron Swoboda) can grind the dust out of the bat. He will be great, super even wonderful. Now, if he can only learn to catch a fly ball.

We are a much improved ball club: now we lose in extra innings!

I had no chance of controlling a ball game until I first controlled myself.

I like to run the slants. The slants are cool. I like routes that you can catch the ball running.

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.'

I don't really get too frustrated. I know I'm going to get the ball.

With three balls, Willie told me to put him on. That took care of it for me. I was intent on trying to make pitches and get back. ... Regardless of what his numbers say, he's still capable of doing a lot of things. He's the guy you don't want beating you.

By doing that and being very competitive, the grown-ups started telling me even back before I started playing organized ball that I was too physical and too advanced for the kids my own age.

It's about time for Lindell White to get back on the floor, expose himself, and get the ball in a scoring position.

We have to get better skilled. We have to be able to catch a ground ball and just simple things that we work on. We don't teach them to drop balls at first base and things like that. As young as we are, we are where we are. We have to get a lot better.

Whenever you have the type of shooters (Ohio State has) and the inside play in (Terence) Dials, its tough to defend them. They do a lot of good things as far as being active and getting their hands on loose balls on rebounds and things of that sort.

When he gets in trouble, it's when he leaves balls up, over the plate. He didn't do that today.

When he gets a ball in the zone that he can handle, most of the time he's going to put it in play. He's not a big swing-and-miss guy. He's not a guy that really fouls a lot of balls that are there for him to hit. I think over time he will walk more.

We were a very good team with Adam and Mike up front and Matt and Jake making plays from the midfield. What turned us into a great team was moving Shane Curran-Hays to sweeper. The other players have total confidence in him. The guys know that they can hold the ball a little longer now. Shane gets to balls that other people would not. His presence made a great change in us in the back. We are quick at every position, really. So communication becomes key, especially because we play zonal defense.

Then I thought, with the same clubhead speed, the ball's going to go at least six times as far. There's absolutely no drag, so if you do happen to spin it, it won't slice or hook 'cause there's no atmosphere to make it turn.

Got more dirt than ball. Here we go again.

I always dreamed about scoring at St. James' Park. I fancied my chances and the ball flew into the net. I was ecstatic.

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.

The only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.

You definitely have to do other things when you know your shot isn't falling. You can't just depend on knocking down the three-ball.

The three-ball is an easy shot if you're uncontested, but when they know you can shoot, it's a lot harder to get off.

It felt smooth coming off my hands. I felt the laces around the ball. It was just all good.

I've often been described more than once in my life as very much like a golden retriever. Just sort of happy and excited to do whatever it is even if it's as simple as retrieving a ball and bringing it back ad nauseum.

I once hit Quentin on the head with my ball and chain.

He told me just to keep the ball low.

A golf ball is like a clock. Always hit it at 6 o'clock and make it go toward 12 o'clock. But make sure you're in the same time zone.

I’m a free spirit who never had the balls to be free.

Whitley Bay was my first experience of the seaside. I'd buy my bucket and spade, and beach ball, and all the shops were teeming with toys. I used to spend hours on the shuggy boats.

When you intercept the ball with your stomach, that is great defense

If he slices the budget like he slices a golf ball, the nation has nothing to worry about.

My old friend Jack Benny has only had one ball all his golfing life. And now he's lost it. The string came off!

Titleist has offered me a big contract not to play its balls.

He hits the ball 130 yards and his jewelry goes 150.

I never kick my ball in the rough or improve my lie in a sand trap. For that I have a caddie.

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.

We were in a hole pretty quick. The kids responded well and hit some balls hard.

It's not about the long ball or the short ball, it's about the right ball.

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.

Just because you didn't get your way, don't take your ball and go home.

Don't knock the ball in the stands, keep it in your hands!

A rebounder, or a shot-blocker for that matter, is always at a disadvantage if he tells himself the only way he can succeed is by out jumping the guy next to him. Sometimes he will have to, but most of the time he will not. Most of my rebounds came from positioning, where I was able to get the ball while in heavy traffic.

I'm glad we were able to win this last one. I saw some good things tonight, ... It's just preseason, but we ran the ball good. I'm happy about that, and the first-team offense was pretty sharp.

My mother used to pitch to me and my father would shag balls. If I hit one up the middle close to my mother, I'd have some extra chores to do. My mother was instrumental in making me a pull hitter.

The way I grew up playing, and the way most Americans have grown up, is that you hit the ball up in the air and then it stops where it lands.

When I'm swinging well, nobody hits the golf ball any better than I do.

I think of myself as 'catching' the ball with my bat and letting the pitcher supply the power.

Golf never ceases to be a challenge, even when it really is just you and the ball out there and nobody else.

One thing I've learned over time is, if you hit a golf ball into water, it won't float.

If I'm shifted two steps toward third base and the ball goes up the middle, people say I have no range to my left. That's why those statistics aren't accurate. You're changing for every batter, sometimes with every pitch. You really can't make one statistic for every shortstop. You have to go by what you see.

When it comes to saving England, Maggy is Ball's Deep

If I've to bowl to Sachin, I'll bowl with my helmet on. He hits the ball so hard.

When Tiger was 6 months old, he would sit in our garage, watching me hit balls into a net. He had been assimilating his golf swing. When he got out of the high chair, he had a golf swing.

Police on my drawers I had to pause 40 ounce in my lap And it's freezing my balls

The key step for an infielder is the first one, but before the ball is hit.

You practice with wet balls all the time.

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

Tito Santana is like a cue-ball. The more you strike him, the more english you get out of him.

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.

I always like to see a person stand up to a golf ball as though he were perfectly at home in its presence.

Golf is assuredly a mystifying game. It would seem that if a person has hit a golf ball correctly a thousand times, he should be able to duplicate the performance at will. But such is certainly not the case.

You can make a very heavy and kind of dangerous 3-way shot glass out of a bowling ball.

Cotton balls is an example of something I would buy, but not want to have as a nickname. Cinnamon buns, on the other hand, is something I would buy and want to have as a nickname. 'Are you Cinnamon Buns?' 'You bet your sweet ass I am.'

I have never been in a bad mood and near a beach ball at the same time. Causation? Correlation? Or fate?

Usually when we lose a game is because we turn the ball over or not play well enough and usually it is the turnover thing. We have to take care of the ball. It is starts with me and not turning it over.

There's a fine line between pleasure and pain. Love me like a ball and chain.

We are going to have to fight for balls in the air. Wright State will be very good in the air, and their goalie can punt the ball a long way.

And from the whole she deduced this useful lesson, that to go previously engaged to a ball, does not necessarily increase either the dignity or enjoyment of a young lady.

I have always passed the ball and worked on that part of my game.

It's not enough just being a good passer of the ball.

People have always thought of me as a passer of the ball, but you can't just be that these days.

It takes some intelligence and insight to figure out you're gay and then a tremendous amount of balls to live it and live it proudly.

Every night is different, a ball of thread that unrolls differently.

We've been hitting the ball really well the last five or six games. We hit some balls hard, but right at people too. But today most of them found holes.

We thought we could get some deep balls with him,

We thought we could bat a lot of balls on him, and have some players who are athletes, ... When you're pressuring, getting as close to the quarterback as you are, that's got to be an advantage for you. You can't just cover on the back end.

We have to play our hearts out. Ball State always serves pretty well, so we have to pass well and put balls away whenever we get good passes.

We had a few girls not getting under the ball. We were shell-shocked. We were out of position and catching balls behind our heads. We were too busy trying to get blocks and not getting back into position.

The court was playing pretty fast, it almost felt like playing tennis with golf balls out there. But I am feeling fine physically. I think need a few more matches before I can start competing better.

The courts were great, the balls were great, and the fans were great. No excuses. (Roddick) had to make the same adjustment. Antony served very well. These guys are all so good you have to be on top of your game every night.

When I'm up on them, they play better, ... When I was up two set points in my pro match, they had two big serves. ... In the juniors I get a lot of balls back and make them play.

When it was raining so hard we said we got to run the ball, and when it stopped and it looked like the fog was rolling in, we said we got to start putting it up in the air. We tried our best to get dry balls in there and Kevin threw some nice balls.

The outfield may not be as fast as I would like. I would hope they will make the routine plays and every once in a while make a spectacular play. We may not be able to run down balls hit in the gaps, but hopefully we won't drop the routine fly ball, either.

I can't even spell spaghetti never mind talk Italian. How could I tell an Italian to get the ball - he might grab mine.

Look at that! If you ever needed convincing that we live in the solar system, that we are on a ball of rock, orbiting around the Sun with other balls of rock, then look at that! That's the solar system coming down and grabbing you by the throat.

Oh aye...my Father would thrash me every now and then. He'd talk while he did it too! He'd hit me and shout, 'Have ye had enough?' Had enough? Whit kind of question is that? 'Why, Father, would another kick in the balls be out of the question???'

Racquetball is the only sport where simultaneously you can be looking at the ball and it'll hit you in the back of the head at 90 miles per hour.

I'm not a star!!! A star is nothing but a ball of gas!!!

There are lots of different parts of movie-making that I participate in, but my favorite part is the making of it. I'm scared, every day. I keep thinking someone's going to throw me the ball and I'm going to go, "Oh, wow. Oh, god. I just messed that up."

They started something here, and the kids are keeping the ball rolling.

We're happy with the effort. Unfortunately we hit some balls right at some people tonight and they didn't get through and that's baseball. It seems to be going like that for us, but we're going to catch our breaks.

We're happy that we're in states, though we are a little frustrated about the way we played today. Our biggest opponent sometimes is ourselves. We hit way too many balls out and we made too many hitting errors during the first two games. Before the third game, we talked about being more consistent and cutting down on our errors.

We regularly check the balls when they hit the dirt." ()

This win tonight was not just Kayla going off and scoring four goals. She finished the way she needed to finish ... but she doesn't get those balls if the rest of the team doesn't step up behind her. It was a total team effort.

It is nasty when you're playing in someone else's house to point out that they don't have enough balls.

We're here to have a ball.

The proper method of playing mixed doubles is to swipe the ball accidentally and straight at the woman opponent as hard and as accurately as possible. Male players must not only retain equanimity on their side of the net, but create dissension on the other.