Balls Quotes - Page 36

• [F]or all its reputation for conservatism, cricket in its history has demonstrated a remarkable capacity for innovation. What game has survived subjection to such extraordinary manipulations, having been prolonged to 10 days (in Durban 70 years ago), truncated to as few as 60 balls (in Hong Kong every year), and remained recognisable in each instance?

  Gideon Haigh

  Years, Games, Innovation

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• It will be easy for us the first time we receive that ball of yarn from Ariadne (love) and then go through all the mazes of the labyrinth (life) and kill the monster. But how many there are who plunge into life (the labyrinth) without taking that precaution?

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Yarn, Labyrinth, Mazes

  "Søren Kierkegaard's Journals and Papers: Autobiographical, 1829-1848". Book by Søren Kierkegaard and Gregor Malantschuk, p. 36, Journal entry (August 1, 1835), 1978.

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• Watching a ball game is one of the sweetest pleasures in the world.

  Silvia Tennenbaum

  Sports, Games, World

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• I hit the ball really well... had a lot of good looks at birdie all day, it's firm but you could control your golf ball, for sure. Today I controlled my ball very well. The confidence is definitely there. I feel really good about where I'm at and going into tomorrow.

  Dustin Johnson

  Confidence, Golf, Looks

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• I'm glad we were able to win this last one. I saw some good things tonight, ... It's just preseason, but we ran the ball good. I'm happy about that, and the first-team offense was pretty sharp.

  Bill Parcells

  Team, Winning, Tonight

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• A good man may fall, but he falls like a ball [and rebounds]; the ignoble man falls like a lump of clay.

  Bhartrhari

  Fall, Men, Good Man

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• I could juggle anything in my day. Balls, cigar boxes, knives...But there was one thing I could never juggle. My income tax.

  W. C. Fields

  Knives, Income, Cigar

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• A lot of players are slow to change, you're playing good,( you think) why do I want to mess with that ? It takes a lot of testing, a lot of practice and observation of the ball, especially under competitive circumstances, to realize this is a better product and I need to start using it.

  David Duval

  Change, Player, Thinking

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• I don't like to hear woman argue...it makes my balls itch.

  Kevin Hart

  Arguing

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• He batted against spitballs, shineballs, emeryballs and all the other trick deliveries. He never figured anything out or studied anything with the same scientific approach I gave it. He just swung. If he'd ever had any knowledge of batting, his average would have been phenomenal. ... he seemed content to just punch the ball, and I can still see those line drives whistling to the far precincts. Joe Jackson hit the ball harder than any man ever to play baseball.

  Ty Cobb

  Baseball, Men, Average

  "Shoeless Joe and Ragtime Baseball". Book by Harvey Frommer, p. 72, 2008.

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• When I played ball, I didn't play for fun.

  Ty Cobb

  Baseball, Fun, Play

  Ty Cobb, Al Stump (1961). “My Life in Baseball: The True Record”, p.280, U of Nebraska Press

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• I've never recommended anybody go into coaching, 'cause if they have enough on the ball, if they can do without coaching, they should do without it. If they put as much work into it and
  spend as much time, the rewards are going to be much better in something else.

  Bear Bryant

  Coaching, Rewards, Causes

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• I couldn't catch a ball if it had Elmer's Glue all over it. And my father had to be this ex-football star. He didn't know what to tell his friends, so he told them all I had Polio. On Father's Day, I used to limp for him.

  Matthew West

  Football, Stars, Father

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• Got any pitches? I got five pitches-rise-ball, curveball, screwball, drop-ball and changeup.

  Jennie Finch

  Curveballs, Five

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• Throwing a ball is not natural, whether it's overhand or underhand.

  Jennie Finch

  Natural, Throwing

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• And two balls minus one, six titles at the tour de France.

  Bo Burnham

  Funny, Humor, Two

  Song: New Math, Album: Bo Burnham

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  Sometimes you gotta work a little, so you can ball a lot.

  Aziz Ansari

  Parks And Recreation, Littles, Sometimes

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com.

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• But a hot gym is where most of us have trained before. Learn to deal with it: more water, more minerals, bigger balls.

  Mark Rippetoe

  Water, Hot, Minerals

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• I can sit all day in a comfortable chair and watch ball games, but I don't need a blanket.

  Don Rickles

  Games, Watches, Needs

  "What I've Learned: Don Rickles". Interview with Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• The wrecking ball is characteristic of our way with materials. We 'cannot afford' to log a forest selectively, to mine without destroying topography, or to farm without catastrophic soil erosion. A production-oriented economy can indeed live in this way, but only so long as production lasts.

  Wendell Berry

  Erosion, Long, Environmental

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• One time I dropped a fly ball in Milwaukee and, after the game, the writers asked me what happened. I told them, 'Well, I was looking up and a UFO flew right across. It was weird. I never saw anything like that in my life.' Man, I was only joking and they wrote it up and put it in the paper.

  Jesse Barfield

  Men, Games, Saws

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• I feel more comfortable with the ball in my hands, playing the point guard. But I like playing the 2, too. I think I bring tough defense and the ability to score and also get my teammates the ball to score.

  Willie Green

  Thinking, Hands, Defense

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• Who else but an Englishman could invent an oval ball.

  Peter Pook

  Oval, Rugby, Englishmen

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• Some people throw a bit of their personality after their bad arguments, as if that might straighten their paths and turn them into right and good arguments-just as a man in a bowling alley, after he has let go of the ball, still tries to direct it with gestures.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Letting Go, Men, People

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.164, Modern Library

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• If the movie is terrible you can have fun. You can joke about it and have a ball. The movie is already sort of established as a kind of extraordinary piece of work even though it hasn't opened yet to the public. It is harder because you can't go against it and you can't be interesting. You have to go with the flow. Although one is very happy to be in it, it is sort of hard to talk about it. It is hard to talk about successful. It is much easier to talk about failure.

  Christopher Plummer

  Fun, Successful, Interesting

  Source: collider.com

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