Ball Quotes

He who looks in the crystal ball ends up eating glass... They're way, way close.

I have absolutely no idea what my generation did to enrich our democracy. We dropped the ball. We entered a period of complacency and closed our eyes to the public corruption of our democracy.

The cast called her Lucy, but everyone else called her Mrs. Ball. She was honest with people. If she liked you, you knew it. If she didn't, you knew it, also.

I used to pretend that I was Tom attacking Jerry, who was drawn on the ball.

It's a whole other ball game and I am glad that I fit into that space where, whatever it is that you want to do and you are doing as long as you are happy with it, then you know What the Heck!

A ball had passed between my body and the right arm which supported him, cutting through the sleeve and passing through his chest from shoulder to shoulder. There was no more to be done for him and I left him to his rest. I have never mended that hole in my sleeve.

I was a professional baseball player from the time I was drafted out of high school in 1981 until the time I retired in 2003.

But with lots of good ideas, implementation is the key, and so we need to keep our eye on the ball as we go forward and make sure that people honor their pledges in terms of financial commitments, and that we actually use this money so that it makes a real difference.

I look at athletes in all sports and try to picture what kind of football player they'd be, what position they'd play and so on.

There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all.

When they come here, what we are looking for them to do is step up to the plate, take responsibility and get the big innings, the centuries - or take a lead with the ball.

It's only a hitch when you're in a slump. When you're hitting the ball its called rhythm.

A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks.

Welcome to the Salvation Army. I've never been associated with an offense so nice about giving the ball away.

And I coached against Mike when he was an assistant with the Bears and they won that football game.

How to hit home runs: I swing as hard as I can, and I try to swing right through the ball.

Baseball player. Yeah, that was my dream before acting, or alongside acting.

I carry a golf ball to put under my feet when they get tight, and a Thera-Band for general stretching.

I'm not a ball in a pinball machine. I know what I want.

Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.

In the split second from the time the ball leaves the pitcher's hand until it reaches the plate you have to think about your stride, your hip action, your wrist action, determine how much, if any the ball is going to break and then decide whether to swing at it.

There's always one shot that I can rely on when I'm not hitting the ball that well, is my serve.

Actually, as that first association continued, we got a little more legitimate. In those days, they asked Boy Scout troops to act as ushers during the football games. So we signed up and I went to many games in full Boy Scout uniform as an usher.

He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass.

I love playing football, being out on the pitch with a ball, and I will be a little sad when that ends.

I am convinced that God wanted me to be a baseball player.

I love being out there on the mound with the ball in my hand. I can control the game. I'm out there. No clock - nothing happens until I throw that thing. Nothing happens. I love that feeling.

I'm a guy that people look at me not only as a guy that hit the ball.

I broke my nose in gym when a ball hit me. I took a girl to her debutante ball the next week wearing a tux and a big, honking bandage. Not the romantic night she had in mind.

I think there are some players born to play ball.