Best 1065 quotes in «balls quotes» category

Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an ever smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose

Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.

Golf never ceases to be a challenge, even when it really is just you and the ball out there and nobody else.

Golf. Trying to knock a tiny ball into an even smaller hole with implements ill suited to the purpose.

Golf is assuredly a mystifying game. It would seem that if a person has hit a golf ball correctly a thousand times, he should be able to duplicate the performance at will. But such is certainly not the case.

Golf is golf. You hit the ball, you go find it. Then you hit it again.

Good ball players make good citizens.

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

Got more dirt than ball. Here we go again.

Grab reality by the balls and squeeze.

Greaseball, greaseball, greaseball, that's all I throw him (Rod Carew), and he still hits them. He's the only player in baseball who consistently hits my grease. He sees the ball so well, I guess he can pick out the dry side.

Growing up I wasn't the richest, but I had a rich family in spirit. Standing here with 19 championships is something I never thought would happen. I went on a court just with a ball and a racket and with a hope.

Growing up I wanted to be a mixture of Audrey Hepburn and Lucille Ball. Apparently I told my mum when I was eight that I wanted to be an actor.

Having a Southwest Green in my backyard is a huge advantage for me on tour. I am pleasantly surprised just how true the ball rolls and reacts to chip and pitch shots. I love my Southwest Green.

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

He (Babe Ruth) hits a ball harder and further than any man I ever saw.

He could ball with the crew, he could solo But I think I like him better when he dolo

He hits the ball 130 yards and his jewelry goes 150.

He hit the ball so hard, I couldn't even turn around in time to see it go over the fence.

He promises a lamp unto our feet, not a crystal ball into the future.

Here's what I realized about the yam - it's the same colour as a Nerf ball. You may be wondering: 'Is he saying he ate a Nerf ball?'.

Here were decent godless people; Their only monument the asphalt road And a thousand lost golf balls.

He's good at that, David Beckham - he's good at kicking the ball

He's showed him the left leg, then the right. Where's the ball, the defender asks? It's up his sleeve.

He's so ugly. When you walked by him, your pants wrinkle. He made fly balls curve foul.

He's passing the ball like Idi Amin.

He waved at his attendants. "I dragged them like a ball and chain all the way across the palace and back." "If sterner measures are called for, we can find a larger ball and chain." The queen turned and disappeared into the partment. "Oh, dear," Eugenides muttered as he followed...The queen's sterner measures, dispensed by the Eddisian Ambassador, arrived before dawn.

He who looks in the crystal ball ends up eating glass... They're way, way close.

Hey, Ethan." "Yeah?" "Remember the Twinkie on the bus? The one I gave you in second grade, the day we met?" "The one you found on the floor and gave me without telling me? Nice." He grinned and shot the ball. "It never really fell on the floor. I made that part up.

Hit the ball carrier harder than he hits you.

Hitting the ball is the fun part of it, but the fewer times you hit the ball the more fun you have.

Hit the ball up to the hole... You meet a better class of people up there.

How about this John Edwards thing? Imagine that, a personal injury attorney who turns out to be a sleaze ball. Who could have seen that coming?

Humor is hard, hard, hard. And if you fail with humor, you don't fail halfway. You drop the ball humor-wise and everyone notices.

Hyypia rises like a giraffe to head the ball clear

I ain't afraid to tell the world that it don't take school stuff to help a fella play ball.

I always dreamed about scoring at St. James' Park. I fancied my chances and the ball flew into the net. I was ecstatic.

I always like to see a person stand up to a golf ball as though he were perfectly at home in its presence.

I always knew I was going to be successful in some way with films. I don't know why. I had no particular talent, but I always knew I was going to be sitting in a dining room with Lucille Ball and at a cocktail party with Bette Davis.

I always threw the ball in, because then if I got the ball back, I was the only player unmarked.

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

I am not superwoman. The reality of my daily life is that I am juggling a lot of balls in the air? And sometimes some of the balls get dropped.

I am stronger than I was last year. I am throwing the ball better now in May of 2013 than I did in May of 2012 - significantly better. I got better throughout the season.

I am very shy. When I go to a charity ball, I don't mind if people look at my sleeves. I mind terribly if I have to say something.

I build myself up with confidence with aggression, and confidence to control the game. If you're the bowler and you've got the ball in your hand you're controlling the game, so you've got to make sure the batsmen knows who's boss.

I can score the basketball, but I think I can pass pretty well or I can make the correct pass. I'm not the type of guy who's just going to throw the ball inbounds to a guy who's wide open. I can make the right pass.

I can't play any more. I can't hit the ball when I need to. I can't steal second when I need to. I can't go from first to third when I need to. I can't score from second when I need to. I have to quit.

I can't just tell the guys I want the ball, I have to do it with my body language.

I can't speak for the future. I have no crystal ball.

I can understand the fact you don't want the ball slipping out of a pitcher's hand because someone can get hurt.