Best 1065 quotes in «balls quotes» category

You are well aware that it is not numbers or strength that bring the victories in war. No, it is when one side goes against the enemy with the gods' gift of a stronger morale that their adversaries, as a rule, cannot withstand them. I have noticed this point too, my friends, that in soldiering the people whose one aim is to keep alive usually find a wretched and dishonorable death, while the people who, realizing that death is the common lot of all men, make it their endeavour to die with honour, somehow seem more often to reach old age and to have a happier life when they are alive. These are facts which you too should realize (our situation demands it) and should show that you yourselves are brave men and should call on the rest to do likewise.

You? Nervous? Man, you've got more balls than any girl I've ever known!' 'You've known some weird girls, then," I say, raising an eyebrow at him.

A batsman's skill and technique are judged on how he faces the Duke ball in England

80 percent of the balls that don't reach the hole, don't go in.

A boy without mischief is like a bowling ball without a liquid center.

According to the experience of all but the most accomplished jugglers, it is easier to keep one ball in the air than many.

A cricket ball broke my nose when I was a kid so I couldn't breath through it. Before I had it operated on I used to stand on stage with my mouth slightly open.

Actually I started out as a fast bowler but people told me that I was chucking the ball, so i changed to spin.

A golf ball can stop in the fairway, rough, woods, bunker or lake. With five equally likely options, very few balls choose the fairway.

A curve ball is not something you can pick up overnight. It took me years to perfect mine.

A friend of mine was asked to a costume ball a short time ago. He slapped some egg on his face and went as a liberal economist.

A glittering disco ball spins from the ceiling, but the music is something I've never heard, discordant and haunting and insistent, the kind of music that demands you dance.

Agnostics are just atheists without balls.

A good friend of mine was Lucy Ball. Her mother and my mother were best friends.

Against the flying ball no valor avails.

A golf ball is like a clock. Always hit it at 6 o'clock and make it go toward 12 o'clock. But make sure you're in the same time zone.

A good time to hit is with men on base, because the pitcher ain't got no place to put you. He's going to get that ball around there somewhere. He don't want to walk you.

A little more movement of the defensive side of the ball, some rules that will be unnoticed, but a big rule will be allowing the jack linebacker to move out of the box sideline to sideline.

A handball is when your hand touches the ball.

Al Sharpton chases the spotlight the way Obama chases golf balls

Allen Iverson is a ball hog. You will never win a championship with him on your team.

All sports are continuously developing, but what they all have in common is that the speed is increasing. That's also true of tennis; the ball is getting faster and faster.

All that analysis is well and good, but what I need right now is a left-handed batter who can hit the ball over the shortstop's head.

A lot of hitters stay away from the plate, some are close up, some are forward, some are back. The thing about hitting is this: You have to know the strike zone. That's the most important thing. Hit strikes and put the bat on the ball.

A lot of the routes cornerbacks have to defend are quick underneath routes, so it's tougher to get a chance to track the ball on those.

A man who keeps on going; a man who keeps his eye on the ball.

A man can live on his wits and his balls for only so long.

Amazing strength, amazing power - he (Ron Swoboda) can grind the dust out of the bat. He will be great, super even wonderful. Now, if he can only learn to catch a fly ball.

...and he crosses the line with the ball almost mesmerically tied to his foot with a piece of string.

And if my aunt had balls she'd be my uncle.

And if we seem nutty to you and if we seem like an odd ball to you, just remember one thing. The mighty oak tree was once a nut just like me.

And just like that, the universe goes wrong. Just like that, all the enormity seems to shrink into a ball and float away from my reach. I feel it, and she doesn't. Or I feel it, and she won't.

Another method of eating burning coals employs small balls of burned cotton in a dish of burning alcohol.

Anything over-handed, I do left-handed. Like throwing a ball or serving in tennis. Otherwise, right-handed, like writing and shaving.

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

Apart from picking the ball out of the net, he hasn't had to make a save.

Apparently the Republican base got radicalized first, and Democrats picked up the ball later. Or something.

Ardiles strokes the ball like it was a part of his anatomy.

As a woman, I find it very embarrassing to be in a meeting and realize I'm the only one in the room with balls.

As an artist, I like working with filmmakers that have the balls to kind of imagine the unimaginable. Those are kind of the radicals that I identify with.

As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along with the ballplayers. I love a ball game.

A rebounder, or a shot-blocker for that matter, is always at a disadvantage if he tells himself the only way he can succeed is by out jumping the guy next to him. Sometimes he will have to, but most of the time he will not. Most of my rebounds came from positioning, where I was able to get the ball while in heavy traffic.

As Dr. Chiang puts it, “while Buddha came to China on white elephants, Christ was borne on cannon balls.

As far as a guy like Ray Lewis is concerned, you know hes going to be around the ball all the time.

As I see it, the thing that hurt my putting most when it was bad, was thinking too much about how I was making the stroke and not enough about getting the ball in the hole.

As the possibility of a relationship had faded, Emma had endeavored to harden herself to Dexter's indifference and these days a remark like this caused no more pain than, say, a tennis ball thrown sharply at the back of her head.

As I was in the air, the ball took a bad hop and caromed behind me, but I was able to catch it with my bare hand. I hit the ground, bounced back up, and threw Burroughs out at first.

As to Hemingway, I read him for the first time in the early 'forties, something about bells, balls and bulls, and loathed it.

Bad putting is due more to the effect the green has upon the player than it has upon the action of the ball.

As you keep shooting the ball, you become a better basketball player.