Best 1065 quotes in «balls quotes» category

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

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

Balls are to men what purses are to women.

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

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.

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 in general are not a good looking item.

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

Baseball is a universal language. Catch the ball, throw the ball, hit the ball.

Baseball's Opening Day is full of time-honored traditions: the President throws out the first ball, the Cubs' starting pitcher walks away with a 54.00 ERA, the Royals get mathematically eliminated from the pennant race.

Bat doesn't hit ball, bat meets it.

Basketball for me has always been a matter of rhythm - what you do bouncing the ball, how you bounce the ball, how you run, how you receive the ball to be in rhythm.

Batistuta gets most of his goals with the ball

Because in order to beat Jimmy, I had to get around the ball a little bit quicker so I wasn't always on defensive and catching the ball on last stride, that I had little more time. Once I was able to get little bit quicker, then it has helped me a lot.

Before you go, would you sign that case of balls for me?

Because of the suit I was wearing, I couldn't make a good pivot on the swing. And I had to hit the ball with one hand.

Bobby JonesConsidered objectively, it is quite obviously a very simple matter to propel a ball with a stick across some specially prepared ground and into a hole which is of sufficient size to accomodate it by a good margin. Simple that is, provided there is no limit upon the time or the number of strokes required.

Ben Battle was a soldier bold, and used to war's alarms, But a cannon-ball took off his legs, so he laid down his arms.

Be watchful lest thou lose the power of desiring and loving what appeals to the soul this is the miser's curse this the chain and ball the sensualist drags.

Be merry all, be merry all, With holly dress the festive hall; Prepare the song, the feast, the ball, To welcome merry Christmas.

Bottom line is, if you turn the ball over to a team that isn't as good, you then have brought them up to your level.

Bowling is all physics and energy distribution. It's F = ma. So it is actually one of the most science-y sports, because it literally is just a ball and a surface and objects to knock down.

But there is a difference between playing well and hitting the ball well. Hitting the ball well is about thirty percent of it. The rest is being comfortable with the different situations on the course.

But life inevitably throws us curve balls, unexpected circumstances that remind us to expect the unexpected. I've come to understand these curve balls are the beautiful unfolding of both karma and current.

But the hobbledehoy, though he blushes when women address him, and is uneasy even when he is near them, though he is not master ofhis limbs in a ball-room, and is hardly master of his tongue at any time, is the most eloquent of beings, and especially eloquent among beautiful women.

But the truth is that L.A. was never entirely real anyway, as Steely Dan, Randy Newman, Warren Zevon, Larry David and Alan Ball all understood.

Breaks like a ball falling off a pool table.

But a hot gym is where most of us have trained before. Learn to deal with it: more water, more minerals, bigger balls.

But, if you miss (the supposedly easy pin) by just a little bit, you're looking at the next putt from 30 feet. The ball just rolls away.

But when Gronk scores - it was like his eighth touchdown of the year - he spikes the ball and he deflates the ball. I love that, because I like the deflated ball. But I feel bad for that football, because he puts everything he can into those spikes.

But you don't have to go up in the stands and play your foul balls. I do.

By doing that and being very competitive, the grown-ups started telling me even back before I started playing organized ball that I was too physical and too advanced for the kids my own age.

Byrd has always been that kind of pitcher, trying to trick you, keep the ball low, in and out. He threw a lot of strikes, worked it inside and out, threw breaking balls for strikes behind in the count.

Carlton Palmer can trap the ball further than I can kick it

By that time I was thinking a little about pro ball and hopeful that someone would draft me.

Catching a fly ball is a pleasure, but knowing what to do with it after you catch it is a business.

Clemente could field the ball in New York and throw out a guy in Pennsylvania.

Chefs don't actually say 'That's a spicy meat-a-ball,' except to indicate that there's a bomb threat in the restaurant without alarming the customers. Terrorism is the spiciest meatball there is.

Complexity can be a trap. You can have a ball developing a phrase, inverting it, playing it in different keys and times and all. But it's really more introspective than communicative. Like a crossword puzzle compared to a poem.

Concealing an illness is like keeping a beach ball under water.