Ball Quotes - page 5

If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball. (Jack Lemmon)
As the skipping rope hit the pavement, so did the ball. As the rope curved over the head of the jumping child, the child with the ball caught the ball. Down came the ropes. Down came the balls. Over and over again. Up. Down. All in rhythm. All identical. Like the houses. Like the paths. Like the flowers. View quote
Madeleine L'Engle
Playing sport was somewhat frivolous, but I liked it. I rebelled a little bit, and wouldn't go to music lessons and things like that, but I would go and play ball. My parents learned to love it because they saw how much I got out of it. View quote
Mike Krzyzewski
If you're working with someone who you get on with and you're supposed to hate them on the screen, then you get this playful challenge thing where you're trying to one-up each other and that's really interesting. Sometimes it can become like tennis. The harder you hit the ball back, then the harder the hit it back to you. View quote
Joseph Morgan
Today's Little Leaguers, and there are millions of them each year, pick up how to hit and throw and field just by watching games on TV. By the time they're out of high school, the good ones are almost ready to play professional ball. View quote
Mickey Mantle
As far as I'm concerned, Aaron is the best ball player of my era. He is to baseball of the last fifteen years what Joe DiMaggio was before him. He's never received the credit he's due. View quote
Mickey Mantle
Having Willie Stargell on your ball club is like having a diamond ring on your finger. View quote
Chuck Tanner
I rolled myself up into a tight ball of resistance and it was thus that I went through my school years. View quote
Sigrid Undset
Basketball is a simple game. Your goal is penetration, get the ball close to the basket, and there are three ways to do that. Pass, dribble and offensive rebound. View quote
Phil Jackson
I have good anticipation, and good reaction to the the ball because I've played so many matches in my life. View quote
Martina Hingis
I was not able to understand how it could be right to pay an actor, or a singer, or an instrumentalist for entertaining the public and wrong to pay a ball player for doing exactly the same thing. (Albert Goodwill Spalding)
I hit the ball early and move my wrist a lot, so I get bigger angles. View quote
Alexandr Dolgopolov
I've been shooting the ball and running a little bit. It's just going out here now and forgetting that I've been out and try to get back in and make sure I know what's going on out there on the floor and that we're just not lost as a team. View quote
Antonio Davis
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. View quote
Aynsley Dunbar
Growing up as a kid my father was British and a soccer player. His idol was a guy that passed the ball a lot, Stanley Matthews. Our family thought if you could be unselfish your teammates would always like you. View quote
Adam Oates
In general I like a guy who is athletic, somebody who can teach me something. Whether it's teaching me a new way to cut on a wave or teach me a three-point conversion or teach me how to dribble a soccer ball. There's something really cool about that. View quote
Aimee Teegarden
It's not just enough to swing at the ball. You've got to loosen your girdle and really let the ball have it. View quote
Babe Didrikson Zaharias
You can lead a team in a lot of different ways. It can be talking to somebody who is down or, during the course of a game, looking to penetrate and then dropping the ball off to someone else for an easy bucket. View quote
Bill Cartwright
Your job is to umpire for the ball and not the player. View quote
Bill Klem
The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball. View quote
Bill Veeck
I've taken up golf in the past five or six years, and most of the time there aren't too many people out there that can drive a ball further than I can. (Bo Jackson)
It was as though all my hostilities, anxieties, and conflicts were in one ball that was flying away into space, farther from me all the time, leaving me content with myself. View quote
Bobby Darin
It's just a matter of hitting the ball where I want to hit it and hopefully making some putts. View quote
Bernhard Langer
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. View quote
Charles Comiskey
Bowling is all physics and energy distribution. It's F = ma. So it is actually one of the most science-y sports, because it literally is just a ball and a surface and objects to knock down. View quote
Chris Hardwick