Balls Quotes - Page 19

• When a ball goes into a net it only means something because we decided it means something. When somebody punches somebody in the face it always means something.

  Joe Rogan

  Mean, Mma, Faces

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• My job is to keep my eye on the ball and to stay focused on what can we get done every single day to advance the vision and values that brought me here.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, Eye, Vision

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I reached this level by sheer dint of hard work, toiling away at scores of tricks and experiments. I used to play with the ball from dawn till dusk and just kept practising. If I wasn't playing matches, it was trying out one on one or two against two with a tennis ball. Then I used to try aiming at certain targets. That's the only way to learn. And if I missed the target, I kept trying until I scored

  Zinedine Zidane

  Hard Work, Two, Play

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• Women in music have the bigger balls anyhow we endure much more harassment and critic.

  Iggy Azalea

  Bigger, Endure, Critics

  Twitter post from Nov 20, 2014

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• 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.

  Bryce Harper

  Thinking, Play, Bats

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• No one can stop a home run. No one can understand what it really is, unless you have felt it in your own hands and body. As the ball makes its high, long arc beyond the playing field, the diamond and the stands suddenly belong to one man. In that brief, brief time, you are free of all demands and complications.

  Sadaharu Oh

  Running, Home, Men

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• What I got out of baseball is what I have today, and I've got to look at that. I still see some of my friends that never made it past Triple-A. I made that last big step. I was lucky. I'm in love with my land. I got it all from playing ball. It gives me prestige. Someone says, 'What you got?' I say, 'One hundred and twenty-one acres of nice land.'

  Mark Fidrych

  Baseball, Nice, Past

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• Science has grown frightfully audacious in these days -- swift-footed, ponderous, careering over her iron ways with unslacking pace. This rampant dragon, on which I am mounted, see how he bends his once stiff neck to his rider, champing his checked bit and pawing the dust, impatient to leap around the globe. Genius is prescient, foresees its own might. Man is striving through these iron-ribbed, steam-sped hippogriffs, to recover his lost ubiquity and omnipotence, and threatens soon to grasp in his ample palm, and fix with flaming eye-ball, the elemental forces!

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Eye, Men, Dragons

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• As in the game of billiards, the balls are constantly producing effects from mere chance, which the most skillful player could neither execute nor foresee, but which, when they do happen, serve mainly to teach him how much he has still to learn; so it is in the most profound and complicated game of politics and diplomacy. In both cases, we can only regulate our play by what we have seen, rather than by what we have hoped; and by what we have experienced, rather than by what we have expected.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Player, Games, Profound

  Lacon: or many things in afew words (p. 345)

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• Plasma on the wall/Write my name on your heart like I'm Lucille Ball/But love changes, a thug changes/And best friends become strangers

  Ras Kass

  Wall, Writing, Heart

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• Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and the plates, up and over, in and out, good solid objects that glitter in the footlights and fall with a bang if you miss them. But when dear Sebastian speaks it is like a little sphere of soapsud drifting off the end of an old clay pipe, anywhere, full of rainbow light for a second and then - phut! vanished, with nothing left at all, nothing.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Fall, Light, Drifting Off

  "Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder". Book by Evelyn Waugh, 1945.

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• A barber is by nature and inclination a sport. He can tell you at what exact hour the ball game is to begin, can foretell its issue without losing a stroke of the razor, and can explain the points of inferiority of all the players, as compared with the better men that he has personally seen elsewhere, with the nicety of a professional.

  Stephen Leacock

  Sports, Player, Men

  Stephen Leacock (2014). “Literary Lapses”, p.55, The Floating Press

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• A good time to hit is with men on base, because the pitcher ain't got no place to put you. He's going to get that ball around there somewhere. He don't want to walk you.

  Yogi Berra

  Men, Want, Good Times

  "Philosopher of the Diamond". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 1, 2005.

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• Heavy role in the movies that I've done that I have loved and fit my soul; A Simple Plan, Monster's Ball, Sling Blade, One False Move, Bad Santa even. I mean Bad Santa is a comedy, and it's a very dark comedy, and it's become like iconic, you know.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Moving, Mean, Dark

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• To hear that you're doing something that other people are enjoying, it's a fun game. It's like hitting a tennis ball over the net, and somebody hits it back. That's what it feels like with the fans. It feels like someone else is participating in my creation, and it's quite incredible.

  Kristin Bauer van Straten

  Fun, Games, People

  Source: collider.com

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• I just look like a transvestite when I try to dress up. There's no place to hide my balls.

  Sarah Silverman

  Trying, Dresses, Looks

  "What I've Learned: Sarah Silverman & Jimmy Kimmel" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. February 20, 2007.

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• One day he [Wagner] was batting against a young pitcher who had just come into the league. The catcher was a kid, too . The pitcher threw Honus a curve ball, and he swung at it and missed and fell down. Looked helpless as a robin. I was kind of surprised, but the guy sitting next to me poked me in the ribs and said, 'Watch this next one.' Those kids figured they had the old man's weakness, you see, and served him up the same dish - as he knew they would. Well, Honus hit a line drive so hard the fence in left field went back and forth for five minutes.

  Burleigh Grimes

  Kids, Men, Curves

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• 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.

  David Chipperfield

  Interesting, Architecture, Found

  "David Chipperfield: A master of permanence comes home" by Rowan Moore, www.theguardian.com. February 05, 2011.

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• Chess is a time game, it’s a game of patience. That pretty much defines how I run the ball.

  Priest Holmes

  Running, Games, Chess

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• Everyone thinks I'm this jock of a woman, but I didn't play any sports. I didn't even let my kids play baseball because I was afraid they were going to get hit by balls.

  Patti Hansen

  Sports, Baseball, Kids

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When I was a kid I would much rather have been a good baseball player or a hit with the girls, but I couldn't play ball. I couldn't dance. Luckily, the girls didn't want me. Not much I could do about that. So I started to draw and to write By the time I got to where I was attracting girls, I was already into work, and it was more important to me. Not that I wouldn't rather make love, but the work has become a habit.

  Shel Silverstein

  Girl, Baseball, Writing

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• But the truth is that L.A. was never entirely real anyway, as Steely Dan, Randy Newman, Warren Zevon, Larry David and Alan Ball all understood.

  Barney Hoskyns

  Real, Truth Is, Steely Dan

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• Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Should, Cannons, Mark

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.157

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• Beauty is Nature in perfection; circularity is its chief attribute. Behold the full moon, the enchanting golf ball, the domes of splendid temples, the huckleberry pie, the wedding ring, the circus ring, the ring for the waiter, and the "round" of drinks.

  O. Henry

  Golf, Moon, Pie

  O. Henry (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of O. Henry (Illustrated)”, p.681, Delphi Classics

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• So multifarious are the different classes of truths, and so multitudinous the truths in each class, that it may be undoubtingly affirmed that no man has yet lived who could so much as name all the different classes and subdivisions of truths, and far less anyone who was acquainted with all the truths belonging to any one class. What wonderful extent, what amazing variety, what collective magnificence! And if such be the number of truths pertaining to this tiny ball of earth, how must it be in the incomprehensible immensity!

  Horace Mann

  Men, Class, Names

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.61

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