Ball Quotes

I rolled myself up into a tight ball of resistance and it was thus that I went through my school years.

In 1986, we gave it our best shot but we didn't get the run of the ball.

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.

I did everything I could to win every time I was handed the ball.

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.

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.

Traveling is definitely something that your average 17-year-old doesn't get to do. One week we're in Japan, one week we're in Australia, one week we're back home going to football games.

You can't win if nobody catches the ball in the outfield. You're only as good as the team you have behind you.

Some of the money going to the rookies can now be spent on people who have proved their worth. After all, the average playing life of a pro football player is about eight years and it is only fitting that the veterans get something for their efforts.

The two-piece ball I switched to spun too much. One shot would go the distance I thought it should, then the next one would fall short, and then the next one would go long.