Balls Quotes - Page 23

• Know what the difference between hitting .250 and .300 is? It's 25 hits - 25 hits in 500 at-bats is 50 points. There's six months in a season, that's about 25 weeks. That means if you get just one extra flare a week - just one - you get a ground ball with eyes, you get a dying quail, just one more dying quail a week ... and you're in Yankee Stadium.

  Crash Davis

  Mean, Eye, Differences

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• David Bentley has got balls - and plenty of them.

  Harry Redknapp

  Bentley, Plenty

  "Alan Brazil, Chris Kamara and the Redknapps - it's 3PM's Quotes of the Year (Part Two)". www.mirror.co.uk. December 27, 2009.

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• I didn't have a grip on that ball. I shouldn't have thrown it.

  Kevin Millar

  Thrown

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• Edgar found a way to get the ball where nobody was standing.

  Kevin Millar

  Way, Found, Standing

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• I've done for the most part pretty much what I intended - I ended up doing comedy, writing and painting. I've had a ball. And as I get older, I just become an older kid.

  Jonathan Winters

  Writing, Kids, Done

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

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• The last player you want the ball to go to is the best player on the planet.

  Steven Gerrard

  Player, Want, Lasts

  "Henry pounces to put Champions League in reach" by Kevin McCarra, www.theguardian.com. March 12, 2006.

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• I could have rolled the ball up there against Musial, and he would have pulled out a golf club and hit it out.

  Don Newcombe

  Golf, Clubs, Golf Clubs

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• The police were also ready with more formidable tools of intimidation. The office also assigned a veteran homicide prosecutor to oversee the investigation. All this activity sent a signal to Condit. If he didn't play ball, he might find himself called to testify before a grand jury under oath.

  Wolf Blitzer

  Play, Office, Police

  "CNN Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer", www.cnn.com. July 8, 2001.

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• I once delivered a simple ball, which I was told, had it gone far enough, would have been considered a wide

  Lewis Carroll

  Simple, Gone, Enough

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• That GOP leadership, that establishment, they've got to get their stuff together I love what they believe in, I believe in it too. But they've got to get tough, man. You know what? It's not just the New England Patriots who are dealing with deflated balls right now.

  Sarah Palin

  Believe, Men, Together

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• Guns do not make you a killer. I think killing makes you a killer. You can kill someone with a baseball bat or a car, but no one is trying to ban you from driving to the ball game.

  Andy Rooney

  Baseball, Gun, Thinking

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• I just wanted to make a million dollars. But I couldn't sing and I couldn't play ball, so I said to my mother, 'How am I going to make a million dollars?' And she said to me, 'Son, if you believe you can do it, you will.'

  Chris Gardner

  Mother, Believe, Son

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

  Babe Ruth

  Kids, Yankees, Rolling

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• I won't be active in the day-to-day operations of the ball club at all.

  George Steinbrenner

  Yankees, Clubs, Operations

  "Yankee Imperialist" by John Cassidy, www.newyorker.com. July 8, 2002.

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• There's nobody on my ball club that doesn't go from first to third on a base hit, or from second to home. Every time you steal a base, you're taking a gamble on getting thrown out, and taking the bat out of the hitter's hand.

  Casey Stengel

  Home, Yankees, Hands

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• I was never nervous when I had the ball, but when I let go I was scared to death.

  Lefty Gomez

  Letting Go, Yankees, Scared

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• This new baseball is like a golf ball. I think there are going to be a lot more dents put in the wall at Fenway Park this year.

  Don Zimmer

  Baseball, Wall, Golf

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• The curve and the fast one are important; the change of pace and the other trick deliveries are great but they're not worth a plugged nickel unless you have control to go along with them. And by control I don't mean the ability to put the ball over the plate somewhere between the shoulders and knees. I mean the ability to hit a three-inch target nine times out of ten, the sort of control that lets you put the ball in the exact spot you want it, and to play a corner to the split fraction of an inch.

  Babe Ruth

  Mean, Yankees, Curves

  George Herman Ruth, Babe Ruth (1992). “Babe Ruth's Own Book of Baseball”, p.11, U of Nebraska Press

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• A lot of pitchers today are afraid of the ball. Warren Spahn pinch-hit for me when I was a rookie. He hit a sacrifice fly. I couldn't argue. I was 20 years old and just happy to be in the big leagues. And Spahnnie was a good hitter.

  Joe Torre

  Sacrifice, Yankees, Years

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• Anybody who can't hear the difference between a ball hitting wood and a ball hitting concrete must be blind.

  Yogi Berra

  Yankees, Differences, Hitting

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• After I won 21 games, I said, "This isn't that hard actually. I can do this every year for maybe 10, 15 years." To tell you the truth I thought I was going to be in the Hall of Fame. I really thought that. You feel so strong, so powerful walking down the street. You know you can throw a ball harder than any man in the world, or certainly the top five. Sandy Koufax knocked all of us out of the box on that one, so we would think, "I'm the second or third hardest thrower in the game."

  Jim Bouton

  Strong, Powerful, Men

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• You got to have two things to win. You got to have brains and you got to have balls. Now you've got too much of one and not enough of the other.

  Paul Newman

  Happiness, Success, Winning

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• Kaka beat Fletcher to the ball, and headed it past Heinze as the Argentine sought to close him down. Heinze could still have dealt with the problem, but, inexplicably, Patrice Evra came flying in like a runaway TGV. Heinze was flattened, Fletcher was so shocked that he stopped to rubber-neck, and Kaka strolled on and rolled the ball past Van der Sar. Evra's nightmare of a half continued when he crazily got himself cautioned for dissent, so removing Ferguson's one remaining first-choice defender from the away leg. Madness.

  Henry Winter

  Soccer, Football, Past

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• We did not pass the ball... we couldn't have found our front two with radar.

  Joe Royle

  Soccer, Football, Two

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• Liverpool can play for only five minutes and win the game, that is the way they are. They pump the ball into the box and with good set-piece delivery they keep you under pressure.

  Alex Ferguson

  Soccer, Football, Winning

  "Crouch rises to the occasion but Smith laid low with a broken leg" by Paul Wilson, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2006.

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