Ball Quotes

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.

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.

This ain't a football game, we do this every day.

But I'd say that probably 70 percent of the bunkering is more to give you an idea of the direction that you want to go or to save your ball from going into worse places.

The bottom line is winning. I want to do what we need to do to win football games.

If Washington continues to fumble issues like taking care of the debt, getting the troops home, and rebuilding our economy, my wife and I may sit down and say, 'These are critical things and maybe we need to get back in the ball.'

I was watching Monster's Ball, which is a fabulous movie. It's just a little gem: beautifully shot, and shot in a way I never would have done. It made me feel very old, really, because it wasn't eccentric for its own sake, it was just very original.

And I want to do it the right way, like everybody else, not just a famous figurehead that gets a job because he is a famous basketball player. I want to really learn the business.

Baseball is the president tossing out the first ball of the season. And a scrubby schoolboy playing catch with his dad on a Mississippi farm.

The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.

The only real happiness a ballplayer has is when he is playing a ball game and accomplishes something he didn't think he could do.

The biggest threat to McDonald's lies within - and that is us as a company becoming complacent. There are a lot of companies that get fat, dumb and happy and take their eye off the ball and forget about serving customers.