Ball Quotes

It's supposed to be fun, the man says 'Play Ball' not 'Work Ball' you know.

What you are as a person is far more important than what you are as a basketball player.

That Seaman is a handsome young man but he spends too much time looking in his mirror rather than at the ball. You can't keep goal with hair like that.

The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing ball. In a word, I have tried to be objective.

I know I've got to just keep throwing the ball. That's what I do best.

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

I wish they'd shut the gates, and let us play ball with no press and no fans.

If you go to the ball game, you don't need to read the game story.

But through experience I learned to control my body and locate the ball.

A ball player has to be kept hungry to become a big leaguer. That's why no boy from a rich family has ever made the big leagues.

We're not running the ball again until we get ahead. Shula was calling the plays, but I told them, 'I don't care what he calls. We're throwing every pass from now until we get the lead.' To Shula's credit, he always gave me that option.

I ain't afraid to tell the world that it didn't take school stuff to help a fella play ball.

Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball.

It will always be the ball and me.

But I don't really care for directors flaring up and trying to humble some actor, which they would do to try and make an example out of them so everybody else would stay on the ball - and David wasn't anything like that.

You don't just throw the ball - you propel it.

Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson.

It often seemed like we had become a nation where the only heroes were rock singers and ball players and that there were no large men of probity who could be called upon for the task.

Kobe Bryant is my favorite basketball player. He takes risks. He goes for the shot. He isn't cautious with whatever he does.

I worry when athletes are simply used by their universities to produce revenue, to make money for them, nothing to show at the back end. I grew up with a lot of players who had very, very tough lives after the ball started bouncing for them. And that's why I'm going to continue to fight.

There are days when I go out on the court and I feel like I can't miss a ball.

A cricket ball broke my nose when I was a kid so I couldn't breath through it. Before I had it operated on I used to stand on stage with my mouth slightly open.

Whenever we don't turn the ball over, we're pretty productive. When you're turning the ball over, you're cutting down on offensive opportunities.

The ball whizzes past like a bumblebee and the Indians are in the sea.

I wish I could go to the school where my close friends go, but I obviously can't. The good thing is, they're really good about inviting me to all the football games and all that stuff. So I end up having an adopted team spirit for a school I don't go to.

Money is not a motivating factor. Money doesn't thrill me or make me play better because there are benefits to being wealthy. I'm just happy with a ball at my feet. My motivation comes from playing the game I love. If I wasn't paid to be a professional footballer I would willingly play for nothing.

As a professional football player, I have known perfectly well from the day I started playing that every day I have to fight for my place.

The cast clubs were a big part of it, too. I found I wasn't getting that instant feedback I was used to with a forged blade. The sweet spot is a shade bigger, and when I didn't hit the ball dead center, I didn't know it, because it still felt great.

I can't hit a ball more than 200 yards. I have no butt. You need a butt if you're going to hit a golf ball.

I feel it's the conscious mind that messes things up. The conscious mind is constantly telling you, this might happen or that might happen, even before it has happened. Your conscious mind tells you the next ball might be a out-swinger, but when it's coming at you you realize it's an in-swinger... so literally, you've played two balls.