Balls Quotes - Page 34

• Adolescents have the right to be themselves. The fact that you were the belle of the ball, the captain of the lacrosse team, the president of your senior class, Phi Beta Kappa, or a political activist doesn't mean that your teenager will be or should be the same....Likewise, the fact that you were a wallflower, uncoordinated, and a C student shouldn't mean that you push your child to be everything you were not.

  Laurence Steinberg

  Senior, Children, Teenager

  Laurence Steinberg (2011). “You and Your Adolescent, New and Revised edition: The Essential Guide for Ages 10-25”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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• Pinball games were constrained by physical limitations, ultimately by the physical laws that govern the motion of a small metal ball. The video world knows no such bounds. Objects fly, spin, accelerate, change shape and color, disappear and reappear. Their behavior, like the behavior of anything created by a computer program, is limited only by the programmer's imagination. The objects in a video game are representations of objects. And a representation of a ball, unlike a real one, never need obey the laws of gravity unless its programmer wants it to.

  Sherry Turkle

  Real, Color, Law

  Sherry Turkle (2005). “The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit”, p.69, MIT Press

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• I want to be able to just act and never do any interview, but I don't have the balls to stand up to the studio and say, "I'm never doing another interview in my life!"

  Christian Bale

  Want, Able, Interviews

  "Christian Bale May Kill Someone Yet". Interview with John H. Richardson, www.esquire.com. November 15, 2010.

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• It's easy to keep score at a football game because it's just how many times you get the ball over the goal. But, when you ask an audience to tell us how many times the invisible ball got over the invisible goal, and they go, "Well, it was 46," they're just making it up. So, if you're listening to that, as though you're actually listening to the score of a football game, you're misleading yourself.

  Gus Van Sant

  Football, Games, Goal

  Source: collider.com

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• Growing up, I was a typical high school kid when YouTube first came out, and I was just watching a whole lot of videos of guys in the league I'm playing with now, guys that aren't in the league, and guys that came before me, just watching the moves that they do, and going out in my backyard and trying them. I did it almost every single day. And I didn't do any crazy dribbling drills or any two-ball dribbling drills. I'm really not good at two-ball dribbling. Nah, never did that. I just went out and tried the moves that I saw.

  Kyrie Irving

  Growing Up, Crazy, Moving

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• You definitely have to do other things when you know your shot isn't falling. You can't just depend on knocking down the three-ball.

  Chris Copeland

  Fall, Three, Knocking

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• Basketball isn't just about the bright lights, packed arenas and highlight reels. Basketball is a way of life. Basketball is a relationship between you and the ball, you and your teammates. If you love the game, nobody can take that from you.

  Michael Jordan

  Basketball, Light, Games

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• People are already worrying about the ball moving around and all that jazz.

  Mahela Jayawardene

  Moving, People, Worry

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• I was feeling pretty good out there in the middle when I went in, but it was one of those things - sometimes you get a really good ball. If it gets you out you just have to forget about it and make sure you do the hard work out there next time you get in.

  Mahela Jayawardene

  Hard Work, Work Out, Feelings

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• If everybody went to balls and did less drugs, itd be a fun world, wouldnt it?

  Dorian Corey

  Fun, Drug, World

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• I love it when receivers catch the balls with their hands.

  Ron Jaworski

  Hands, Receiver

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• He (Sandy Koufax) throws a 'radio ball,' a pitch you hear, but you don't see.

  Gene Mauch

  Radio, Sandy

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• Whether it be personal or musical, I just think Im a walking art piece, just a ball of creativity.

  Chris Brown

  Art, Creativity, Thinking

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• The no-hitter was the highlight of my career. The specialness of it, I didn't know how lasting it would be when it happened. Everywhere I go, people talk about that game, how exciting it was. That makes me very proud. I'm awfully happy that a ball didn't bloop in somewhere.

  Jim Abbott

  Games, Careers, People

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• I think of myself as 'catching' the ball with my bat and letting the pitcher supply the power.

  Barry Bonds

  Thinking, Bats, Catching

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• How can I play baseball if I'm stupid? If I was stupid I wouldn't have pitched in the World Series. I'd be playing ball in Mexico or Yugoslavia or on Pluto.

  Joaquin Andujar

  Baseball, Stupid, Yugoslavia

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• Some of the longest home runs I've hit, I didn't actually realize they were going that far. Everyone says, 'What does it feel like to hit the ball that far?' Actually, there's no feeling at all. I know when the ball meets the bat whether or not it's left the park. It's a nice easy thing.

  Mark McGwire

  Running, Nice, Home

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• He's (Rafael Palmeiro) always the left-handed swing you want to copy.
  He's got a real smooth swing and he's never off balance. He's always on top of
  the ball. I just like watching him hit.

  Jorge Posada

  Real, Swings, Balance

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• Yeah, I'm going to go back (after hitting his 500th home run, but commenting on reaching the 3,000 hit plateau) to my Punch-and-Judy days, hit the ball the other way, start bunting the ball a little bit.

  Rafael Palmeiro

  Running, Home, Littles

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• I know what to do when they give me the ball. I know what to do to give this team a chance to win.

  Johan Santana

  Team, Winning, Giving

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• The smaller the town the more important the ball club was. But if you beat a bigger town they'd practically hand you the key to the city. Any if you lost a game by making an error in the ninth or something like that, well, the best thing to do was just pack your grip and hit the road, because they'd never let you forget it.

  Smoky Joe Wood

  Games, Cities, Errors

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• I was not able to understand how it could be right to pay an actor, or a singer, or an instrumentalist for entertaining the public and wrong to pay a ball player for doing exactly the same thing.

  Albert Goodwill Spalding

  Player, Actors, Singers

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• No human mind may measure the blessings conferred by the game of base ball on the soldiers of the Civil War. It had its earliest evolution when soldiers, North and South, were striving to forget their foes by cultivating, through this grand game, fraternal friendships with comrades in arms.

  Albert Goodwill Spalding

  War, Blessing, Games

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• I know I'm good when I'm hitting the ball the other way - that's Albert Pujols.

  Albert Pujols

  Hitting, Way, Knows

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• Don't tell me what delusion he entertains regarding God, or what mountebank he follows in politics, or what he springs from, or what he submits to from his wife. Simply tell me how he makes his living. It is the safest and surest of all known tests. A man who gets his board and lodging on this ball in an ignominious way is inevitably an ignominious man.

  H. L. Mencken

  Spring, Work, Character

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.20, Vintage

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