Ball Quotes
Text Quotes
I pluck with my fingernails. If I break a nail, I can’t cancel a concert. So I can make a nail out of a ping-pong ball. (Ball Quotes)
I’m instinctive. I’m still learning how to run the ball. What I’ve done may look good to everyone else, but I know I’m capable of more than I’ve shown. (Ball Quotes)
I’m not in Captain America because it takes place in the 40s. Both he and Bruce Banner are relationships that evolve during this - two more rock stars that I got to get on stage, ready to play ball. (Ball Quotes)
With a character like a Captain Jack, who can essentially set up these verbal land mines around him, and just keep passing the absurdity ball around and the irreverence ball around, and keep people guessing and keep people confused, there’s great safety in that. Me, myself, personally, I learn from it. It’s a real pleasure, and I do need him. (Ball Quotes)
Tennis takes care of everything. It requires agility and quickness to get to the ball, core strength to get power into your shorts and stamina to last for an entire match. In addition to toning your arms and shoulders, it’s a total body workout for your legs and abs, and works your heart and core unlike any other sport. (Ball Quotes)
We’re good at taking care of little kids, and spend a lot of energy teaching them things like how to read. But when kids get as tall as their parents and can look them in the eyes, we tend to drop the ball - at a time they most need a loving consistent community of adults, be it parents, aunts, uncles, or others. (Ball Quotes)
So many people: Lucille Ball is the earliest incarnation of a woman I thought was funny, Joan Rivers, Roseanne, Carol Burnett, Gilda Radnor, down to current times, where you have Amy Poehler, Tina Fey, and Kristen Wiig. (Ball Quotes)
One of the more bizarre games I played as a kid was something called ‘kill the man.’ It was a cross between football and rugby, which found the person carrying the ball a target of some hungry tacklers. I still don’t know why we enjoyed the game because it was impossible to win. (Ball Quotes)
Minute to Win It’ is a variation on a game show from the 1950s called ‘Beat the Clock,’ in which contestants won washing machines and fox stoles by doing such pointless stunts as catching a tennis ball in a paper cup or knocking a hat off one’s wife’s head with a whipped-cream spritzer. (Ball Quotes)
There is only one categorical imperative in golf, and that is to hit the ball. There are no minor absolutes. (Ball Quotes)
I thought I understood the story very well, because I’ve lived with it for so long. But movies change and take on a life of their own once they start to be made, and you have to keep your eye on the real ball, not the ball that’s in your head. (Ball Quotes)
I owe my life to my father. I remember that my first Christmas present was a ball. In the district where we lived, there weren’t many kids who had one. (Ball Quotes)
When I was a kid in Michigan, I used to play ball with a town team on Sunday. Of course, I’d go to church first. Played the church organ, as a matter of fact. (Ball Quotes)
My son is a Liverpool fan, and he was already kicking a ball before he was one. He was born in the football city; he had no choice. (Ball Quotes)
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. (Ball Quotes)
He who looks in the crystal ball ends up eating glass... They’re way, way close. (Ball Quotes)
When someone kisses someone or flushes the toilet it is my other who sits in a ball and cries. My other beats a tin drum in my heart. My other hangs up laundry as I try to sleep. My other cries and cries and cries when I put on a cocktail dress. (Ball Quotes)
We put suffocation warnings on all the - on every piece of plastic film manufactured in the United States or for sale with an item in the United States. We put warnings on coffee cups to tell us that the contents may be hot. And we seem to think that any item sharper than a golf ball is too sharp for children under the age of 10. (Ball Quotes)
Players from the Dominican Republic have a history of not playing well in cold weather.... The ball hurts their hands when they make contact. (Ball Quotes)
One of the biggest reasons I like coaching college ball is the kids. I feel I can impact players’ lives. I like the fact that they’re student-athletes. I like to see those kids graduate. (Ball Quotes)
I have two college degrees, four honorary doctorate degrees, and am in three Halls of fame, and the only thing I know how to do is teach tall people how to put a ball in the hole. (Ball Quotes)
A lifetime contract for a coach means if you’re ahead in the third quarter and moving the ball, they can’t fire you. (Ball Quotes)
If the president of the college had asked me what I thought about Dewey McLean, I’d say he’s a weak sister. I thought he’d been knocked out of the ball game and had just disappeared, because nobody invites him to conferences anymore. (Ball Quotes)
We used to look at each other and say, ‘We play the same game with the same rules, the same bat, the same ball, the same field. What the hell does color have to do with it? You don’t play with color. You play with talent.’ (Ball Quotes)
It felt smooth coming off my hands. I felt the laces around the ball. It was just all good. (Ball Quotes)
I’ve come to realize that I perform best when I’m letting my subconscious mind hit the ball and my conscious mind is otherwise occupied. (Ball Quotes)
I like women who can throw a ball and laugh loud and have some spine, and I like men who don’t mind cooking dinner. (Ball Quotes)
The Moon is a ball of left-over debris from a cosmic collision that took place more than four billion years ago. A Mars-sized asteroid - one of the countless planetesimals that were frantically churning our solar system into existence - hit the infant Earth, bequeathing it a very large natural satellite. (Ball Quotes)
I was very happy and honored to create the Professor Garfield Foundation with Ball State to make reading fun. (Ball Quotes)
I feel like nobody can stop me off the dribble. At crunch time, we’re looking for somebody to score and I definitely want to be the guy who has the ball in his hands. (Ball Quotes)