Best 1065 quotes in «balls quotes» category

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

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

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

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 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 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 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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

To be a big league ball player, you have to love the game.

Titleist has offered me a big contract not to play its balls.

To act with a tennis ball and imagine it's a tentacle, or if you're in some kind of wilderness film and you go, 'Okay, we can't have a grizzly bear here, but imagine when you step over the rock there there's a grizzly bear.' I don't know. They're tough moments.

Watching the ball is always a good starting point.

To catch a ball, I'd commit suicide.

To catch the ball, face up, look at all of my options and then pass. I was playing hot potato. I didn't want to be the guy to stall the triangle.

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.

To know of someone here and there whom we accord with, who is living on with us, even in silence - - this makes our earthly ball a peopled garden.

Travelers are fantasists, conjurers, seers - and what they finally discover is that every round object everywhere is a crystal ball: stone, teapot, the marvelous globe of the human eye.

Velocity is one thing, but the thing that worries me is my ball-strike ratio is about 1-to-1.

Watching a ball game is one of the sweetest pleasures in the world.

Too many kids today are playing major league ball and don't belong there.

To see the ball, to run after it, makes me the happiest man in the world

Unless you plan to out-rebound and out-shoot everyone you play, then you better learn to handle the ball.

Usually when we lose a game is because we turn the ball over or not play well enough and usually it is the turnover thing. We have to take care of the ball. It is starts with me and not turning it over.

Water holes are sacrificial waters where you make a steady gift of your pride and high-priced balls.

We are all addicts in various stages of degradation where I live on the Upper West Side, some to heroin, some to small dogs, and some to the New York Times. The heroin is cut, the dogs are paranoid, and the Times cheats by skimping on the West Coast ball scores. No matter, each of us goes upon the street solely in pursuit of his own particular curse.

We are a team. We share the ball, we share the game, we share the worries.