Best 1065 quotes in «balls quotes» category

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 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.

Against the flying ball no valor avails.

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

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

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 handball is when your hand touches the ball.

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.

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.

Al Sharpton chases the spotlight the way Obama chases golf balls

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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 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.

At international level, giving the ball away doesn't work too often.

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

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

At the age of five or six I just used to kick the ball with both feet. I wasn't very good to start with but I practised and practised. Once I finally got it, it was an unbelievable sensation. It was then that I realised that if you work at something, it pays off.

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

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

Barcelona players are passing the ball at least 25 times to reach the goal, while Real Madrid's Xabi Alonso is doing this all in a single pass.

Balls are to men what purses are to women.

Ball so hard that you can't win it. So much money bank can't fit it.