Ball Games Quotes - Page 2

• I cannot consider fighting in competitive Manly Fun any more than I can consider pitting my running, swimming or climbing body against other bodies. Nothing, then, or now, arouses me or will ever arouse me from a perfect disinterest in ball games.

  Hal Porter

  Sports, Running, Fun

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• In real life I'm not the character I play in my films. I'm reasonably competent, I work very hard, I'm disciplined, I lead a very middle class life. I work in the mornings, I have lunch, I practise my clarinet, I go to the movies, I eat out in restaurants or watch ball games on television or at the ball games.

  Woody Allen

  Morning, Real, Character

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 27, 2001.

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• So, it becomes an exercise in futility if you write something that does not express the film as the director wishes. It's still their ball game. It's their show. I think any successful composer learns how to dance around the director's impulses.

  Danny Elfman

  Writing, Exercise, Successful

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• I don't give a damn about any actors. What good will John Barrymore do you with the bases loaded and two down in a tight ball game. Either I get the money (more than Barrymore), or I don't play!

  Babe Ruth

  Baseball, Games, Play

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• Reading scripts is actually quite a relaxing part of the job. Strangely relaxing. This is a whole different ball game.

  Jack O'Connell

  Jobs, Reading, Games

  Source: collider.com

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

  Jim Lehrer

  Games, Needs, Balls

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• I’ve lived the literal meaning of the ‘land of the free’ and ‘home of the brave.’ It’s not corny for me. I feel it in my heart. I feel it in my chest. Even at a ball game, when someone talks during the anthem or doesn’t take off his hat, it pisses me off. I’m not one to be quiet about it, either.

  Chris Kyle

  Home, Heart, Land

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• People think I played 10 years. I played 68 ball games.

  Gale Sayers

  Thinking, Years, Games

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• Eating's going to be a whole new ball game. I may even have to buy a new pair of trousers.

  Lester Piggott

  Retirement, Games, Balls

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• I really don't care much about baseball, or looking at ball games, major or minor. All my interest in baseball is in its statistics.

  Ernest Lanigan

  Baseball, Games, Balls

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• A barber is by nature and inclination a sport. He can tell you at what exact hour the ball game is to begin, can foretell its issue without losing a stroke of the razor, and can explain the points of inferiority of all the players, as compared with the better men that he has personally seen elsewhere, with the nicety of a professional.

  Stephen Leacock

  Sports, Player, Men

  Stephen Leacock (2014). “Literary Lapses”, p.55, The Floating Press

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• Children must receive music instruction as naturally as food, with as much pleasure as they derive from a ball game, and this must happen from the beginning of their lives.

  Leonard Bernstein

  Children, Games, Balls

  Leonard Bernstein (1982). “Findings”, Anchor

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• What do you imagine the American people would think of me if I wasted my time going to the ball game?

  Grover Cleveland

  Thinking, Games, People

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• The same church members who yell like Comanche Indians at a ball game on Saturday sit like wooden Indians in church on Sunday.

  Vance Havner

  Sunday, Games, Church

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• When you go to South Africa, you get a different vibe and a different sound. The music is awesome the people are loving it. When you go to Botswana, it's a different ball game. The people out there love Afro Beat Hip Hop so much. When you go to Sierra Leone it's different, when you go to Nigeria it's different... It's all pretty exciting!

  Ice Prince

  Games, People, Hip Hop

  Source: mobo.com

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• Will TV kill the theater? If the programs I have seen, save for "Kukla, Fran and Ollie," the ball games and the fights, are any criterion, the theater need not wake up in a cold sweat.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Fighting, Games, Sweat

  Tallulah Bankhead (1952). “Tallulah: My Autobiography”, p.11, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I can sit all day in a comfortable chair and watch ball games, but I don't need a blanket.

  Don Rickles

  Games, Watches, Needs

  "What I've Learned: Don Rickles". Interview with Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• I think the Americans don't understand that this is a complicated new ball game. People everywhere have seen that a few determined people who were not scared to die can create a huge upheaval within a major superpower.

  Imran Khan

  Thinking, Games, People

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• The web site and the Internet are a whole new ball game.

  Johnny Ramistella

  Games, Balls, Internet

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• Guns do not make you a killer. I think killing makes you a killer. You can kill someone with a baseball bat or a car, but no one is trying to ban you from driving to the ball game.

  Andy Rooney

  Baseball, Gun, Thinking

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• Does one eat peanuts at a ball game?' 'It ain't hardly legal if you don't.

  Edna Ferber

  Baseball, Games, Doe

  Edna Ferber (2015). “Buttered Side Down”, p.37, Booklassic

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• That's the name of the game ... pleasing the customer. If we ever lose sight of that fact, we've lost the ball game.

  Ray Kroc

  Sight, Games, Names

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• Movies are a whole different ball-game, now. It's much more of a business - very scientific.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Games, Different, Balls

  Source: www.gamesradar.com

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• Hitting a golf ball correctly is the most sophisticated and complicated maneuver in all of sports, with the possible exception of eating a hot dog at a ball game without getting mustard on your shirt.

  Ray Fitzgerald

  Sports, Dog, Golf

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• I'm mad at him, too, for being out late. But I'm not mad enough to take a chance on losing a ball game and possibly the pennant.

  Casey Stengel

  Baseball, Games, Mad

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