Balls Quotes - page 7

Tennis was always there for me, which was lucky. I would go play baseball, basketball, football, hang with my brother, do whatever, and at the end of the day I'd come back and say, 'Hey, Mom, would you hit 15 minutes worth of balls with me?' (Jimmy Connors)
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. View quote
Johnny Evers
People rarely speak of children; you hear of 'cohort groups' and 'standard variations,' but you don't hear much of boys who miss their cats or 6-year-olds who have to struggle with potato balls. View quote
Jonathan Kozol
Motion capture is amazing. I prefer it. You wear a 'Power Ranger'-esque suit, you have tape balls on you, you have 60 cameras around you capturing your every movement and there's no hair, no makeup. View quote
Kellan Lutz
Only bad golfers are lucky. They're the ones bouncing balls off trees, curbs, turtles and cars. Good golfers have bad luck. When you hit the ball straight, a funny bounce is bound to be unlucky. View quote
Lee Trevino
The first time at age 5 and a half, when I took a racket in my hands and my father fed me some balls, I made 50 backhands in a row - didn't miss a single one. View quote
Marion Bartoli
It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with. View quote
Marat Safin
I look at it somewhat as a way - when you learn juggling, what you learn is how to feel with your eyes and see with your hands because you're not looking at your hands, you're looking at where the balls are, or you're looking at the audience. View quote
Michael Moschen
I watch every day when we hit and take ground balls and the way we go about our business. If I saw any lackadaisical approach, that would concern me. View quote
Mike Quade
Gleason used to rack balls for me when he was a kid in Brooklyn and in Long Island. View quote
Minnesota Fats
Politicians who wear little tennis socks with the balls at the back should not be taken seriously. (Mo Rocca)
As Indian women, we are always balancing work, life, home, etc. It's important to know that while juggling rubber balls and glass balls, the former may bounce back when you miss, but the glass balls will crack if you let them fall. So prioritise, prioritise, prioritise. View quote
Nita Ambani
Magazines and advertising are flogging the idea that you have to keep changing things and get something new. I think that's balls - evil. But obviously that's your livelihood. View quote
Robin Day
When I was young, it was fun being in the locker room and shagging balls in the outfield in spring training. But I couldn't keep my attention on the games for more than 30 minutes. I would sit there with my Game Boy the whole game. View quote
Shane Larkin
I was never a strikeout pitcher. Why should I throw eight or nine balls to get a man out when I got away with three or four? View quote
Stan Coveleski
I wouldn't have raced a horse. But you'll then throw back at me that Jesse Owens raced against a horse and he's one of my heroes so I'm not going to say it was a silly stunt. I know too much about horses. They're highly unreliable and they've got brains the size of golf balls. View quote
Sebastian Coe
Like most kids, my dad played. He would drag us out to the course and make us shag balls for him and caddy and all that kind of stuff. View quote
Tom Lehman
Then there's Johnny Pesky, hit me countless number of ground balls and improved my fielding so much. View quote
Wade Boggs
For women of my generation, it was the 'juggling act.' Jobs, marriage, children, homes, and aging parents were the balls we added, tossing them in the air as our lives filled up and praying they wouldn't come crashing down on our heads. View quote
Willow Bay
Everyone feels that void. Everyone who has the balls to look inside themselves, anyway. It's what life's all about.. A search. View quote
Tiffanie DeBartolo
And if my aunt had balls she'd be my uncle. (Tiffanie DeBartolo)
They got a lot of kids now whose uniforms are so tight, especially the pants, that they cannot bend over to pick up ground balls. And they don't want to bend over in television games because in that way there is no way their face can get on the camera. View quote
Casey Stengel
I'm a hick,” I recall saying to him. "No,” Harrison answered. "You think you're less than you are. You're a smart hick.” And then, "You have the eyes of a doe and the balls of a samurai. View quote
Carrie Fisher
All bluster, no balls. View quote
Daniel Abraham
I played in front of every conceivable audience you could face: an all-black audience, all-white, firemen's fairs, policemen's balls, in front of supermarkets, bar mitzvahs, weddings, drive-in theaters. I'd seen it all before I ever walked into a recording studio. View quote
Bruce Springsteen