Ball Quotes

For the parents of a Little Leaguer, a baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown into innings.

The good thing is I don't put the ball in my right hand and I'm predominantly left-handed when I'm running the ball. I just have to take care of the football and even if I have two hands that are 100 percent, I still can't turn the ball over. It's just something I have to mentally prepare for, and I think I'm strong enough to do that.

I was always the last one chosen for football games in Central Park.

My first year of pro ball I played in the Northwest league and made the all-star team, and the next year I played I led the team in hitting and was third or fifth in the league.

I think if I were a college professor, no one would say I was uncomfortable about being shy because that might be expected. But I think because of people's stereotypes, they think of a football player as someone who is very outgoing and I'm not.

President Obama could keep a big map with push pins on it to keep track of how many countries hate us, and when we get down to only half, let's have a ball. I'll blow up the balloons myself.

When I throw a ground ball, I expect it to be an out, maybe two.

I was not successful as a ball player, as it was a game of skill.

It was a horrible, terrible, atrocious, offensive football game.

I started in for the ball but I just couldn't get it. I should have caught it because I was used to catching everything on the sandlots. But they hit the ball a lot harder in the major leagues and I just couldn't reach the ball this time.

There were a couple of years when I wanted to be a football player, but I really always wanted to be a singer.

Taking in a baseball game on TV is also a big treat.

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

The key thing with any football player is, what can he do when he gets on the field.

Without the ball, you can't win.

The type of athletes we draft still need types of versatility on the defense side of the ball, run the offense. You should still be concerned on the offense side of the ball.

All we can do is play ball. Every time we go out on the field, we do what we do in America - live in the freedom that our country affords us.

Ross Perot. I could have had a ball with him.

Most players I play with, I don't look at their swing when they're over the ball or anything like that.

Some of these guys wear beards to make them look intimidating, but they don't look so tough when they have to deliver the ball. Their abilities and their attitudes don't back up their beards.

Swing hard, in case they throw the ball where you're swinging.

If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.

Training's completely different now. It used to be a lot of running and work without the ball. Now it's all with the ball, which any player loves.

I was a volleyball player as a kid. I played volleyball all the time.

Hitting the ball was easy. Running around the bases was the tough part.

Golf... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well.

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

Football is a simple game based on the giving and taking of passes, of controlling the ball and of making yourself available to receive a pass. It is terribly simple.

It was not long before I was struck with the idea that base ball was just the game for a national sport for Americans.

It doesn't matter who scores the points, it's who can get the ball to the scorer.