Ball Quotes

To be a big league ball player, you have to love the game.

As American as an apple is and as American as baseball is, they don't go together. You can't be chewing an apple at a baseball game. You've got to let go of the diet that day.

Placing the ball in the right position for the next shot is eighty percent of winning golf.

And of course in America you've got American football and baseball and all those other ball games, soccer has become a little niche that the women have kind of filled.

Well, we promised our fans that we'd put out records faster, and that's what we're doing. We figured out a way to condense our cycle, so to speak, by... continuing to write, trying to keep the creative ball rolling as often as possible.

If you identify yourself as a great football player, anytime anyone challenges that, you're going to have some kind of problem.

You're the only one in control over your golf ball. It's not like tennis: you're hitting a shot and somebody's hitting it back at you.

No one hit home runs the way Babe did. They were something special. They were like homing pigeons. The ball would leave the bat, pause briefly, suddenly gain its bearings, then take off for the stands.

It's not just enough to swing at the ball. You've got to loosen your girdle and really let the ball have it.

Life's like a ball game. You gotta take a swing at whatever comes along before you wake up and find out it's the ninth inning.

You know, I was crap. But I had the commitment, and I had the understanding, that the basis of football is skill on the ball, and if you spend the time with it, you're gonna reap the rewards.