Balls Quotes - Page 32

• I have no physical genius about me. I cant dribble a ball and run at the same time, I cant do lay-ups - Im not an athlete. But my experience as a kid was, I was made fun of so much that what I did then, is, I wouldnt participate. And I think I cheated myself out of a lot of fun.

  Rich Mullins

  Running, Fun, Athlete

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• It's very hard to dismantle the ball off Wayne Rooney

  Dwight Yorke

  Wayne, Rooney, Hard

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• When I see three balls, I just swing at the middle one.

  Hack Wilson

  Swings, Three, Middle

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• 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.

  Tom Lehman

  Dad, Kids, Stuff

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• Spectators around the world enjoyed watching Seve, but talking to a lot of the players, he made such an impression on them the way he played, and the way he was such a beautiful, natural talent. His hands on the club. His address position. He had an unbelievable way of telegraphing through his countenance what he was going to do with the ball. It was just like an artist.

  Ben Crenshaw

  Beautiful, Artist, Player

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• I can understand the fact you don't want the ball slipping out of a pitcher's hand because someone can get hurt.

  Joe Torre

  Hurt, Hands, Want

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• I just loved to play. I liked to study the other ballplayers. I could talk about it for ages, because I played professional ball for 20 years, and I was still learning when I quit.

  Lloyd Waner

  Years, Play, Age

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• The history of a battle, is not unlike the history of a ball. Some individuals may recollect all the little events of which the great result is the battle won or lost, but no individual can recollect the order in which, or the exact moment at which, they occurred, which makes all the difference as to their value or importance.

  Duke of Wellington

  Order, Differences, Battle

  1815 Of the Battle of Waterloo. Letter, 8 Aug.

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• It took me 13 years to win a Super Bowl. But it only took me one season to win a 'mirror ball.'

  Donald Driver

  Winning, Mirrors, Years

  "Donald Driver: Dancing Win Feels the 'Same' as Winning Super Bowl" by Dahvi Shira, people.com. May 23, 2012.

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• I play in front of 70,000 fans week in and week out, and I may drop the ball in practice, I may run the ball the wrong way, but once it's game time, it's game on.

  Donald Driver

  Running, Practice, Games

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• I have big nuts. huge nuts. Elephantitis of the balls - that's what I have.

  Eminem

  Nuts, Bigs, Huge

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• With any kind of physical test, I don't know what it is, I always seem to get competitive. Remember when you were in school and they'd do those hearing tests? And you'd really be listening hard, you know? I wanted to do unbelievable on the hearing test. I wanted them to come over to me after and go, 'We think you may have something close to super-hearing. What you heard was a cotton ball touching a piece of felt. We're sending the results to Washington, we'd like you to meet the President.'

  Jerry Seinfeld

  School, Thinking, Touching

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• 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.

  Charles Comiskey

  Games, Twenties, Pay

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• In American Romances, her new book of essays, Rebecca Brown has a voice that is full of pop references, family stories, and the fruits of a lifetime of -- in her perfect phrase - extreme reading. The voice is a hoot, and it is dead serious. This is writing with exquisite control, fully up to the task Brown takes on of playing a fierce game of beach ball with deep problems of American (and personal) history and identity.

  Susan Stinson

  Beach, Book, Reading

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• Juggling is an illusion. ... In reality, the balls are being independently caught and thrown in rapid succession. ... It is actually task switching.

  Gary W. Keller

  Reality, Tasks, Illusion

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• Giving Cristiano that much time and space on the ball is like giving Dracula the keys to the blood bank

  Ray Hudson

  Keys, Blood, Space

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• Kilbane did what he normally does: ran his heart out and gave the ball away a lot.

  Johnny Giles

  Heart, Doe, Ran

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• People still do not understand that a live fish is more valuable than a dead one, and that destructive fishing techniques are taking a wrecking ball to biodiversity.

  Sylvia Earle

  Fishing, People, Technique

  "Can We Stop Killing Our Oceans Now, Please?" by Sylvia Earle, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 14, 2013.

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• The water of the fountain ran, the swift river ran, the day ran into evening, so much life in the city ran into death according to rule, time and tide waited for no man, the rats were sleeping close together in their dark holes again, the Fancy Ball was lighted up at supper, all things ran their course.

  Charles Dickens

  Sleep, Dark, Men

  charles dickens (1868). “a tale of two cities”, p.104

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• There are moments where we forgot what got us to where we are now. ... We stopped moving the ball. We know how it works. We are playing a great team with great players, and we've got to be close to perfect to win.

  Manu Ginobili

  Team, Moving, Winning

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• If you look hard enough, you can find race issues and racism in everything. I know people who say, 'See, I don't play pool 'cuz that's where the white ball chase the black ball off the table. So I prefer bowling, where the big black ball knock down the white pins with the red necks.'

  Chi McBride

  Issues, Race, Play

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• He's good at that, David Beckham - he's good at kicking the ball

  Jimmy Armfield

  Kicking, Beckham

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• The golf ball has no sense at all, which is why it has to be given stern lectures constantly, especially during the act of putting.

  Dan Jenkins

  Golf, Lectures, Given

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• Health care historically has been a very siloed field that's organized around medical specialties - urology, cardiac surgery, and so forth - and around the supply of these specialty services. The patient is the ping-pong ball that moves from service to service.

  Michael Porter

  Moving, Ping Pong, Care

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• In baseball, when you get into the batter's box, that's it. It's just you. It's one man against the world. All that matters in that moment is your individual achievement and your individual skill. There is literally nothing that anyone else on your team can do for you. Hell, they're all sitting on the bench, waiting to see what happens, just like the fans in the crowd! It's just you and your bat. And the ball.

  Barry Lyga

  Baseball, Team, Men

  Barry Lyga (2009). “Boy Toy”, p.61, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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