Ball Quotes

I learned early on to never walk while I was on the ball field. I ran everywhere I went.

Um, you know, they have every right to feel the way they do and things are great with me, as you see, I'm very, good shape now and on the ball. Things are happening.

Tell me the truth - do you think I've lost my Southern accent? I feel it comes back to me only when I'm shouting at fights or at baseball games.

I still have a problem with nuns. I follow them around like a kitten with a ball of yarn. After a while, all my characters become very close friends.

If I would be happy, I would be a very bad ball player. With me, when I get mad, it puts energy in my body.

Cyclists, I work with a number of cyclists. They are great athletes; they are great aerobic athletes. If you ask them to hit a baseball or golf ball, they can't do that.

See the ball; hit the ball.

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.

When I was in baseball and you went into the clubhouse, you didn't see ball players with curling irons.

If my uniform doesn't get dirty, I haven't done anything in the baseball game.

As far as a guy like Ray Lewis is concerned, you know he's going to be around the ball all the time.

Without the ball, you can't win.

I had no experience with broadcasting basketball games, so I took a tape recorder and went to a playground where there was a summer league, and I stood up in the top of the stands and I called the game.

My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories.

When I lose the sense of motivation and the sense to prove something as a basketball player, it's time for me to move away from the game.

I looked for the same pitch my whole career, a breaking ball. All of the time. I never worried about the fastball. They couldn't throw it past me, none of them.

It's not like learning how to hit a curve ball in baseball.

Creating a character and living truthfully through her is a whole different ball game. It's all part of the same person but it's a much newer medium for me.

Some of the onus falls on us to make ourselves available for the ball, because we need to play inside-out. That's when we're at our best.

I never played with a runner in my entire life, even in schools, because only I know where the ball is going and how hard, when I hit the ball, something my runner will never know about.

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

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.

When handling the ball, I always would look for daylight, wherever there was daylight.

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.