Best 1065 quotes in «balls quotes» category

In my own case I have frequently faced the pitcher when I had no desire whatever to hit. I wanted to get a base on balls.

In terms of soccer, it wasn't really a thing that girls did. In England it more kind of Net Ball and Hockey and stuff like that in athletics. It's to each their own, really.

In Paris, our lives are one masked ball.

In soccer, the blindest player is the one who sees nothing but the ball.

In Toronto, Serena Williams was not fit at all, not striking the ball well at all, and went three sets with someone (ranked) 92 in the world.

I once hit Quentin on the head with my ball and chain.

In the split second from the time the ball leaves the pitcher's hand until it reaches the plate you have to think about your stride, your hip action, your wrist action, determine how much, if any the ball is going to break and then decide whether to swing at it.

I probably hit the ball as far today as I did 40 years ago. That just shouldn't be.

In the closing seconds of every game, I want the ball in my hands for the last shot - not in anybody else's, not in anybody else's in the world.

In various talk th' instructive hours they past, Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last; One speaks the glory of the British queen, And one describes a charming Indian screen; A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes; At every word a reputation dies.

I once delivered a simple ball, which I was told, had it gone far enough, would have been considered a wide

I read the last Harry Potter, and I cried for at least the last 70 pages. Awful! I was curled into a ball and I just kept sobbing. It was embarrassing. I was loud, and I just kept wiping tears away so I could see the page.

I patterned myself after Reggie Jackson. I wanted to have that same swing and hit some homeruns. When I was down in A-ball, I was trying to be Reggie Jackson and I was striking out all the time. And I was like, 'This isn't the way Reggie is doing it, so I got to change.'

I put on your sequined ball gown and I checked the mirror there. Why, I looked like Cindy Crawford, but with much more body hair.

I quit acting when I was 11 because I was cast as a bouncing ball in 'Alice in Wonderland,' and I felt slighted and wounded.

I really hate it when I can’t score runs from a ball.

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

I said, 'If the quarterback is a runner, it'll work.' But if your quarterback's not a runner, in my judgment and in the judgment of most of the people, it wouldn't work without the quarterback running the ball.

I recently watched that Lucie Arnaz-produced documentary [Lucy and Desi: A Home Movie, 1992] about her parents [Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz], and I saw so much of my own childhood there.

I really don't care much about baseball, or looking at ball games, major or minor. All my interest in baseball is in its statistics.

I said I would do all the films about the commercials, and the films about ball-bearings and Ford tractors and so on, if once a year they gave me money for a free film.

I see the role of a rabbi or a pastor in general sort of like the role of a quarterback who throws the ball a little bit ahead of the receiver - that is you want to make people run just a bit to catch up to the message that you offer.

I say if you're going to take a chance on something, you just go full balls to the wall.

I see Maradona every time he grabs the ball and accelerates.

I should curl up in a ball and cry. Instead i think about everything in the whole entire world that makes me angry - There is a lot, oh, there is a lot - and I start singing Justin Bieber at the top of my lungs.

I started hitting the ball a lot better a few weeks ago, and just the putter wasn't working. And putting a new putter in the bag last week, it just helped.

I still can't believe," Michael said, sotto voce, "that you came to the Vampires' Masquerade Ball dressed as a vampire.

I still believe in the old-school show thing no frills, no fancy equipment just a guitar and some amps and some drums, and throw it out there and do it the best you can in a live sense, because it's easy to make records. But the live show is where you really show if you've got the balls to do it.

I still have a Lydia Ko-signed golf ball in my sock drawer that I'll keep for a while.

I still swing the way I used to, but when I look up the ball is going in a different direction.

I still have a problem with nuns. I follow them around like a kitten with a ball of yarn.

I talked to the ball a lot of times in my career. I yelled, "Go foul. Go foul.

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

It doesn't matter where the ball is or what the situation is. I can look around to the guys on my left and right, and know that they are ready to go.

Isn't an agnostic just an atheist without balls?

Isn't success ridiculously easy, once it begins to succeed? ... after the strain and sweat and pushing until the very groins of your being shrieked protest, something like momentum happened. It took your wits and your concentration and your continued willing sweat, of course, to keep it going, but the success of success had ball bearings.

I think I play center field better than I do anywhere else. I have enough speed and enough reaction to know where the ball goes off the bat.

It felt smooth coming off my hands. I felt the laces around the ball. It was just all good.

I think in international football you have to be able to handle the ball.

I think people forgot that there are still ways you can get the ball inside rather than just standing there and throwing the ball in. You have to have a system that makes all things work.

I think that gambling is a synthetic experience and that if you have any balls you gamble with your life. I have. So can everybody else.

I think of myself as 'catching' the ball with my bat and letting the pitcher supply the power.

I thought that he was righteous, but he's vain. Oh, somethings a telling me I wear the ball and chain.

I think it took me a long time to realize that you can't really score unless someone passes you the ball. The older you get as a woman, it's fewer and far between. The material isn't there.

I think there is a certain perversity in my music in that I continue, you know, to eat at the same ball of vomit year after year.

I think we shot the ball very well tonight, we just didn't get stops when we needed to. They hit 11 3-pointers in the third quarter. Sometimes when one person gets hot, everybody's hot.

I think we're in a very exciting time - visually, I think we are. I've not got a crystal ball. I'm not saying I know what the future is at all. In some ways I'm getting quite pessimistic about the future, but in other ways I think it might get better. We are moving into very big changes.

I threw a lot of balls and walked a lot of batters. Not something I'm proud of, but something I learned from.

I throw the ball as hard as ever, but it just takes longer to get to the plate.

It is a game, the whole ball of wax is a game - your life, my life, politics, economy, hunger.