Best 1065 quotes in «balls quotes» category

There is no defense against the base on balls.

There is no substitute to taking a lot of a catches as a youngster if you want to do slip catching - you've got to catch, catch, catch. And more than doing the normal stuff, you have to vary your catching - you've got to take some catches with the tennis ball, you got to take some closer, some further away.

There is no such thing as a natural golfer but you become one by hitting thousands of balls

There is only one categorical imperative in golf, and that is to hit the ball. There are no minor absolutes.

There's a ball. There's a hoop. You put the ball through the hoop. That's success.

There's a famous saying: "If you pass the square ball in your own defensive third it must not be intercepted.

There's a difference [between taking a charge and flopping]. We all know what flopping is when we see it. The stuff that you see is where guys aren't really getting hit at all and are just flailing around like a fish out of water. That's kind of like, where are your balls at?

Theres a fine line between physical and thug ball, and the Knicks have crossed the line on occasion.

There's a fine line between pleasure and pain. Love me like a ball and chain.

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

There’s a massive glitter ball in my head and it has never stopped turning

... there's been a lot of balls that have been pounding in that end zone.

There's more tension in golf than in boxing because golfers bring it on themselves. It's silly really because it's not as if the golf ball is going to jump up and belt you on the whiskers, is it?

There's one thing I'm really good at, and that's hitting the ball over a net, in a box. I'm excellent.

There was clearly great charm and worth in a sport so quaintly perverse in its basic instructions. Hit down to make the ball rise. Swing easy to make it go far. Finish high to make it go straight.

There's only one ball game for any writer, and it's to keep you turning the pages. That's the whole ball game. That's what I have to do.

There's times when you catch a ball and really didn't even see that ball. You're like, 'That couldn't have been all me.'

There weren’t any fairy tales in the streets around me. If there was ever a Cinderella, her glass slippers shattered under her weight and she limped home bleeding from the ball.

The run of the ball is not in our court at the moment

The same church members who yell like Comanche Indians at a ball game on Saturday sit like wooden Indians in church on Sunday.

The same niggas I ball with, I fall with

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

The serve is the only thing you know about yourself when you play tennis. If you make it right, you make it right. Nobody can touch you when you serve. Nobody can disturb you. You have the ball in the hand.

The smaller the ball used in the sport, the better the book.

The spirit of sarcasm lives and thrives in the midst of universal wreck; its balls are enchanted and itself invulnerable, and it braves retaliations and reprisals because itself is a mere flash, a bodiless and magical nothing.

The Spaniards have been reduced to aiming aimless balls into the box.

The storm is master. Man, as a ball, is tossed twixt winds and billows.

The surgeries were the hardest scenes for me because it's literally balancing so many balls in the air, at the same time, and each surgery is different.

The way I grew up playing, and the way most Americans have grown up, is that you hit the ball up in the air and then it stops where it lands.

The three-ball is an easy shot if you're uncontested, but when they know you can shoot, it's a lot harder to get off.

The universe will finally become a ball of radiation, becoming more and more rarified and passing into longer and longer wave-lengths. The longest waves of radiation are Hertzian waves of the kind used in broadcasting. About every 1500 million years this ball of radio waves will double in diameter; and it will go on expanding in geometrical progression for ever. Perhaps then I may describe the end of the physical world as-one stupendous broadcast.

The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball.

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

The web site and the Internet are a whole new ball game.

They take the paper and they read the headlines. So they've heard of unemployment and they've heard of bread-lines. And they philanthropically cure them all by getting up a costume charity ball.

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.

They started something here, and the kids are keeping the ball rolling.

They've done the old-fashioned things well; they've kicked the ball, they've headed it.

They thought that athletes that worked out with my system wouldn't be able to throw a ball because they'd be too muscle bound. Those are the misconceptions I had to go through for about 40 years.

They were so clever finding ways to get me the ball. They had to do more than just give up open shots. They had to avoid fouls and pass me the ball in traffic.

Thierry Henry could take the ball in the middle of the park and score a goal that no one else in the world could score.

This ball was so crowded that it took me - a trained professional journalist with vast experience in this area - forty five minutes to get a beer.

Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.

This country is no more saved than; well ... it's as lost as they say in Alabama, "... as lost as a ball in tall grass.

This is my fault. Give me the ball.

Three things can happen when you throw the ball, and two of them are bad.

Through the ball we are all the same. We just have different ways of getting it there.

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

This is my moment, this is my chance to make a difference, and you know, I just went for the ball, I attacked it, and I went and got it, ... I was gonna catch that ball, regardless of what happens.

To contact the cosmic giggle, to have the flow of casuistry begin to give off synchronistic ripples, whitecaps in the billows of the coincidental ether, if you will. To achieve that, a precondition is a kind of unconsciousness, a kind of drifting, a certain taking-your-eye-off-the-ball, a certain assumptions that things are simpler than they are, almost always precedes what Mircea Eliade called ‘the rupture of plane’ that indicates that there is an archetypal world, an archetypal power behind profane appearances.