Ball Quotes

There's always one shot that I can rely on when I'm not hitting the ball that well, is my serve.

Sometimes, the people who are helping you can drop the ball.

Having Willie Stargell on your ball club is like having a diamond ring on your finger.

Generally, magicians don't know what to say, so they say stupid and redundant crap like,'Here I am holding a red ball.'

For three years, the 'Meistersinger' score was a ball and chain to me. It went with me to every city and concert hall.

I rolled myself up into a tight ball of resistance and it was thus that I went through my school years.

Building a mechanical device for its appearance is like putting lace on a bowling ball.

You never want to be the director who dropped the ball, you know?

It's not just enough to swing at the ball. You've got to loosen your girdle and really let the ball have it.

At the British Open, I had my opportunities, but the ball just didn't want to go in the hole on the back nine.

I wish they'd shut the gates, and let us play ball with no press and no fans.

When I play ball, I play hardball.

If I was crazy, I'd throw the ball into the stands with the bases loaded. Now, that's crazy. If I was stupid, I'd throw the ball into center field with the bases loaded and a 3-2 count on the hitter. Now, that's stupid.

When I was 22, I was having a ball!

Let me put it this way: I think Republicans tend to keep the ball in play, Democrats go for broke.

I guess I do prefer a ball cap. I have performed without a cap, mostly at funerals and weddings.

He sliced the ball when he had it on a plate.

I like to juggle with one ball at a time. Then I put the ball down and do nothing for extended periods of time.

When I was in baseball and you went into the clubhouse, you didn't see ball players with curling irons.

They have so fundamentally flawed techniques it's ridiculous. They shoot the ball flat. They all stand upright, there's just so many things they do incorrectly.

The slow-motion replay doesn't show how fast the ball was really travelling.

Behind every kick of the ball there has to be a thought.

What a ball from Frank. Frank and I go back years. He used to do that when I was at Ajax.

It doesn't matter who scores the points, it's who can get the ball to the scorer.

There's kind of a Zen aspect to bowling. The pins are either staying up or down before you even throw your arm back. It's kind of a mind-set. You want to be in this perfect mind-set before you released the ball.

We didn't do a square ball in 'Pong' because we thought it was cool. We did it because that was all we could do.

I'm just generally hugely frustrated, I'm a very, very frustrated man. I'm just a ball of pent-up frustration.

It just wasn't right the way they were behind by 25 points and then they're told to hold the ball.

Imagine the ball has little legs, and chop them off.

Without the ball, you can't win.

Everything I did that required effort, I opened my mouth. Even to catch a ball, I opened my mouth.

I think there are some players born to play ball.

Some of these guys wear beards to make them look intimidating, but they don't look so tough when they have to deliver the ball. Their abilities and their attitudes don't back up their beards.

When I'm swinging well, nobody hits the golf ball any better than I do.

When handling the ball, I always would look for daylight, wherever there was daylight.

Keep your eye on the ball.

You get to the plate and nothing is going through your mind. You see the ball, you see the seams.

I was shot down by a fifth ball, which struck me squarely in the face, and passed out.

Logistics is the ball and chain of armored warfare.

One travels like a golf ball, hopping from green to green.

Yes, I'm happy with Alan Ball's production of my novels.

The harder you grip the bat, the more you can swing it through the ball, and the farther the ball will go.

Some of the onus falls on us to make ourselves available for the ball, because we need to play inside-out. That's when we're at our best.

I'm not a ball in a pinball machine. I know what I want.

The ultimate judge of your swing is the flight of the ball.

I always tried to hit the ball back through the box because that is the largest unprotected area.

To be a good hitter you've got to do one thing - get a good ball to hit.

You just listen to the ball and bat come together. They make an awful noise.

Be bold. If you're going to make an error, make a doozy, and don't be afraid to hit the ball.

Your job is to umpire for the ball and not the player.

There are really only two plays: Romeo and Juliet, and put the darn ball in the basket.

Ross Perot. I could have had a ball with him.

When the ball dropped in 1999, I was holding dough and champagne in my hands and holding my kids.

The only thing I can do is play baseball. I have to play ball. It's the only thing I know.

I know I've got to just keep throwing the ball. That's what I do best.

I've been known to do lunges down hotel hallways. I also like to use the ice bucket in the hotel room as a medicine ball.

It's only a hitch when you're in a slump. When you're hitting the ball its called rhythm.

They throw the ball, I hit it. They hit the ball, I catch it.

Things slow down, the ball seems a lot bigger and you feel like you have more time. Everything computes - you have options, but you always take the right one.

I can remember when, as a beginner, I was delighted with any ball as long as it would bounce.

We are reinventing the world. We've set the ball spinning with little concern for where and how it's going to stop.

Eddie Haas talked a lot about not hitting the ball in the air.

I am not anti-English, and I never was.

I could always hit. I learned to hit with a broomstick and a ball of tape and I could always get that bat on the ball.

I loved Lucille Ball growing up.

I'm a guy that people look at me not only as a guy that hit the ball.

I feel that every time I get the ball at the moment I am going to score.

It's not fun facing a ball going 97 mph, trust me.

The man with the ball is responsible for what happens to the ball.

As long as I play ball, I can get any woman I want.

It's really nice to pass the ball when you're in an ensemble cast.

It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square.

See the ball; hit the ball.

I lost the ball in the moon.

I did everything I could to win every time I was handed the ball.