Ball Quotes - page 7

I had a ball doing Harry Potter. (Fiona Shaw)
It's not like learning how to hit a curve ball in baseball. View quote
Floyd Abrams
At 24, my head was as shiny as a cue ball on a billiard table. I naturally thought this meant curtains. Actually, I found it helped. When I was too young to play real character parts, they mistook me for older because of the bald noggin. I got juicy roles right from the start. View quote
Frank Cady
You are meant to play the ball as it lies, a fact that may help to touch on your own objective approach to life. View quote
Grantland Rice
Heroic people take risks to themselves to help others. There's nothing heroic about accepting $5 million to go out and run around chasing a ball, although you may show fortitude or those other qualities while you do it. View quote
Gregg Easterbrook
I love the feel of hitting the ball hard, the pleasure of a rally. It is these things that make tennis the delightful game that it is. View quote
Helen Wills
The reason people like to watch ball games is because they don't really know exactly what's going to happen from moment to moment. That's why you watch the entire thing. View quote
Isaac Mizrahi
Because in order to beat Jimmy, I had to get around the ball a little bit quicker so I wasn't always on defensive and catching the ball on last stride, that I had little more time. Once I was able to get little bit quicker, then it has helped me a lot. View quote
Ivan Lendl
This year I've just been aggressive. I still have that mindset of passing the ball, and being aggressive and attacking to the basket is going to draw more attention, and that way I can find my teammates. Being in attack mode is something I try to bring into every single game, and that's what's making me be so successful. View quote
James Harden
If everything always went perfectly, I would feel like, When is the ball going to drop? Because good things don't always last. Maybe I'm a pessimistic person. When something just seems too good, I can't believe it. View quote
January Jones
When I was a little kid I used to play with guys twice my age, so, I was the last one picked, so if I picked I knew that I had to get the ball to the scorer if I wanted to stay on the court, so that was pretty much my job. (Jason Kidd)
I grew up in New York City, where we played highly unorganized sports: stick ball, stoop ball, and the occasional game of baseball with no adult supervision. View quote
Jeff Greenfield
The lunar flights give you a correct perception of our existence. You look back at Earth from the moon, and you can put your thumb up to the window and hide the Earth behind your thumb. Everything youve ever known is behind your thumb, and that blue-and-white ball is orbiting a rather normal star, tucked away on the outer edge of a galaxy. View quote
Jim Lovell
You can't win if nobody catches the ball in the outfield. You're only as good as the team you have behind you. View quote
Jim Palmer
One travels like a golf ball, hopping from green to green. View quote
John Gunther
When your arm gets hit, the ball is not going to go where you want it to. View quote
John Madden
I always thought I could play pro ball. I had confidence in my ability, You have to. If you don't who will? View quote
Johnny Unitas
I learned to approach racing like a game of billiards. If you bash the ball too hard, you get nowhere. As you handle the cue properly, you drive with more finesse. View quote
Juan Manuel Fangio
Concealing an illness is like keeping a beach ball under water. View quote
Karen Duffy
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. View quote
Kathy Mattea
The first thing I think of when I hear the name of Lucille Ball is a Hollywood legend. I have fond memories of growing up at her house, but she was a different person off the set than she was on the set. (Keith Thibodeaux)
As far as sleeping goes, you're up and ready to go at six in the morning. Spring training was always a combination of relaxing and working, and I missed that quite a bit. I missed being around the ball field. A baseball. A bat. The smell of the uniform, you might say. Talking baseball. Seeing opponents as well as the Cubs. View quote
Lou Boudreau
No one hit home runs the way Babe (Ruth) did. They were something special. They were like homing pigeons. The ball would leave the bat, pause briefly, suddenly gain its bearings, then take off for the stands. View quote
Lefty Gomez
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. View quote
Mackenzie Astin
If you're a goalkeeper, it doesn't matter what you save the ball with - if you keep it out, it's not a goal. View quote
Mark Lawrenson