Ball Quotes

You got guys now declaring they're ready to play pro ball in their second or third year of high school. It's crazy! They're missing so much.

I'm not a person or a selfish player, but we have to move the ball more, and we have to look further the team game, because we have enough talent to use different players.

A woman may not hit a ball stronger than a man, but it is different. I prize that difference.

Eddie Haas talked a lot about not hitting the ball in the air.

You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.

You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the damn plate and five the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all.

I wanted to be a professional baseball player.

You know Nashville, there's people that are ten times more talented than me, ten times better singer than me, song writer than me, but for some reason you get the ball and now - and now you run with it. And you do the best you can.

It's really nice to pass the ball when you're in an ensemble cast.

Light and funny has a more compelling quality when you're younger. But I haven't abandoned the genre: I love falling down; I love Lucille Ball. It's just that a lot of those stories revolve around problems that I can't convincingly portray at this age.

I had dreams of catching the ball for the final out in the World Series and being mobbed by my teammates. Well, I guess all my dreams didn't come true.

If you meet the Buddha in the lane, feed him the ball.

I live in L.A., so I go to basketball games. But I love baseball.

A little more movement of the defensive side of the ball, some rules that will be unnoticed, but a big rule will be allowing the jack linebacker to move out of the box sideline to sideline.

Magic Johnson, former basketball player, may run for mayor of L.A. in the next election. Remember the good 'ol days when only qualified people ran for office like actors and professional wrestlers.

I was planning to be a baseball player until I ran into something called a curveball. And that set me back.

Maybe I was born to play ball. Maybe I truly was.

I love talk and I love fishing. I'm having a ball.

I felt really sorry for Oliver Kahn. Up to that point he had made lots of saves for the German team. Of course he could have caught the ball but it just happened. It was bad luck. In that situation, you need to be very strong psychologically to carry on.

You are meant to play the ball as it lies, a fact that may help to touch on your own objective approach to life.

They have so fundamentally flawed techniques it's ridiculous. They shoot the ball flat. They all stand upright, there's just so many things they do incorrectly.

I want to play music when I want, write a song if I want or watch a baseball game if I want.

I think it is an inborn talent - just luck. Some people can learn languages; some can throw a ball. Most people have something. My talent is drawing and painting.

I'm not like a 90-mph fastball kind of guy, but I can hit 70 on radar gun. I hit 70 one time on a radar guy at one of those pitch-and-throw kind of things. I have a pretty good arm for somebody who's not a baseball player.

I was born to score goals, I feel. How I score them - how I get the ball into the back of the net - might have changed. The actual ability of what I was born to do will never leave me.

I've always wanted to be the best in the world as a baseball player, so when I started to think about opening a business, it was with that mindset.

I had tons of friends, played ball with my friends on the street, and did the normal things.

Every time I fumble or drop a ball I am embarrassed.

Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase.

While all the other kids were out playing ball and stuff, I used to stay in my room and imagine that there was a camera in the wall. And I used to really believe that I was putting on a television show and that it was going out to somewhere in the world.