Best 1065 quotes in «balls quotes» category

Every time I fumble or drop a ball I am embarrassed.

Everything my mother made had to cook for 80 hours, and when she made matzoh balls she didn't know fluffy. Everything sank.

Every time I step in between those lines, I'm in the zone. If you get between me and the ball, you might get smashed a couple times. Things happen, plays happen.

Every time I sign a ball, and there must have been thousands, I thank my luck that I wasn’t born Coveleski or Wambsganss or Peckinpaugh.

Find a way to get back in to the game, find a way to build a partnership, find a way to catch a ball, find a way to stop it.

Everywhere you go, mother nature's throwing some curve-ball at you.

Explore the internet long enough and you'll see completely balls out madness there.

Far from a Harvard student, just had the balls to do it

Financial markets are supposed to swing like a pendulum: They may fluctuate wildly in response to exogenous shocks, but eventually they are supposed to come to rest at an equilibrium point and that point is supposed to be the same irrespective of the interim fluctuations. Instead, as I told Congress, financial markets behaved more like a wrecking ball, swinging from country to country and knocking over the weaker ones. It is difficult to escape the conclusion that the international financial system itself constituted the main ingredient in the meltdown process.

Football is much harder if you don't have the ball.

For me, fielding is everything - it is a passion that comes from within. You can get a bad ball while you bat, and your bowling may not always be up there, but you are completely in control of how well you field.

For me, Paul Scholes has been the best midfield player in the Premier League. By a mile. He has the lot. He scores and creates goals, he can pass the ball, he can head it, and rounds all this off with a competitive streak.

Follow through: The part of the swing that takes place after the ball has been hit, but before the club has been thrown.

For me, the worst part of playing golf, by far, has always been hitting the ball.

For such a small man Maradona gets great elevation on his balls

For the dharma to become firsthand knowledge-to feel the ‘ouch’ of it-you have to live intimately with it, hold it up to scrutiny, and let it hold you up to scrutiny. In the end, the ball is always thrown back to you: ‘Be a lamp unto yourself,’ says the Buddha. In other words, you must ultimately find the way on your own, by putting your ideas of the truth to the test. Your questions light the way.

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 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.

Do you know what Bill Gates has to pull out of an old coat, to feel like I did with a $20 bill? First of all, the idea that Bill Gates has an old coat is preposterous. If he has an old coat, it's the coat Abe Lincoln was shot in and he wears it as a bathrobe - no underwear by the way. He lets his billionaire balls swing willy-nilly beneath the death cloak of the great emancipator. That's your 1%.

For me personally, I need to anticipate pressure and tuck the ball away.

For the Eye altering alters all; The Senses roll themselves in fear And the flat Earth becomes a Ball.

For years I did take my time, but that was because I hated waiting to hit shots - I adopted a pace where I didn't have to stand by my ball and wait.

Free people have a serious problem with place, being in a place, using up a place, deciding which new place to rotate to. Americans ricochet around the United States like billiard balls.

Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

Getting married was a ball. Being married was... a nightmare.

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.

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

Health care historically has been a very siloed field that's organized around medical specialties - urology, cardiac surgery, and so forth - and around the supply of these specialty services. The patient is the ping-pong ball that moves from service to service.

He (Bill Terry) once hit a ball between my legs so hard that my center-fielder caught it on the fly backing up against the wall.

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

Hamburg totally wrecked us. I remember getting home to England and my dad thought I was half-dead. I looked like a skeleton, I hadn't noticed the change, I'd been having such a ball!

He can't kick with his left foot, he can't head a ball, he can't tackle and he doesn't score many goals. Apart from that he's all right.

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

He (Darryl Strawberry) is not a dog; a dog is loyal and runs after balls.

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 is the best passer of a ball in the world, and Real's style fits him.  (on David Beckham)

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.