Balls Quotes - Page 10

• Football became my life at five or six. The earliest memory I have is of playing in my first boots, a pair of black and white Alan Balls. It was 1970, four years after the World Cup, and I scored three goals at school.

  Vinnie Jones

  Football, Memories, School

  "Vinnie Jones: 'It took me 40 years to see a psychologist'"y Megan Conner, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2013.

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• Everyone plays the ball over the top and, at the moment, we only concede goals from crosses or balls over the top. I feel we will adapt to that.

  Arsene Wenger

  Play, Goal, Moments

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• In order to be an actor you really have to be one of those types of people who are risk-takers and have what is considered an actor's arrogance, which is not to say an arrogance in your personal life. But you have to be the type of person who wants the ball with seconds left in the game.

  Bryan Cranston

  Order, Games, People

  "Bryan Cranston: 'I had to take my character from Mr Chips to Scarface" by Andrew Anthony, www.theguardian.com. October 27, 2012.

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• When you play a match, it is statistically proven that players actually have the ball 3 minutes on average ... So, the most important thing is: what do you do during those 87 minutes when you do not have the ball. That is what determines wether you're a good player or not.

  Johan Cruijff

  Change, Football, Player

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• We must make sure their worst players get the ball the most. You'll get it back in no time.

  Johan Cruijff

  Change, Football, Player

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• If you have the ball, you must make the field as big as possible, and if you don't have the ball, you must make it as small as possible.

  Johan Cruijff

  Change, Football, Fields

  "The Other Football: A fond farewell to a 'Total' legend of the game, Johan Cruyff" by Justin Saj, www.foxnews.com. March 29, 2016.

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• Imagine the world so greatly magnified that particles of light look like twenty-four-pound cannon balls.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Science, Light, Twenties

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• You, me, & your papa are 3 of the tiny percentage of souls on this miserable earth who've figured out that playing ball is the highest purpose God ever invented the human male body for.

  David James Duncan

  Soul, Papa, Males

  David James Duncan (2010). “The Brothers K”, p.12, Dial Press

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• Profit by your own mistakes and profit by the mistakes of others. The referees were calling ball handling violations like they were getting commissions.

  John Kessel

  Sports, Mistake, Calling

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• No jockey ever won a race by carrying the horse across the finish line; no coach ever won a volleyball match by touching the ball during play.

  John Kessel

  Sports, Volleyball, Horse

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• You play ball against yourself; your opponent is your potential.

  Bobby Knight

  Sports, Play, Opponents

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• There's a ball. There's a hoop. You put the ball through the hoop. That's success.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Inspirational, Inspirational Success

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• You don't ask a juggler which ball is highest in priority. Success is to do it all.

  John Armstrong

  Priorities, Asks, Jugglers

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• Bill Walton, UH Volleyball coach, after his player kept looking at him on the bench every time the ball hit the floor...Next time you look at me I'll put you on the bench where you can see me better. My basic principle is that you don't make decisions because they are easy; you don't make them because they are cheap; you don't make them because they are popular. You make them because they are right.

  Theodore Hesburgh

  Leadership, Sports, Volleyball

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• A lot of hitters stay away from the plate, some are close up, some are forward, some are back. The thing about hitting is this: You have to know the strike zone. That's the most important thing. Hit strikes and put the bat on the ball.

  Stan Musial

  Important, Bats, Hitting

  "Talking hitting with Stan Musial and Tony Gwynn". Sporting News Magazine Interview, www.sportingnews.com. July 28, 1997.

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• When I get a chance to power jump off both legs, I can lean, twist, change directions and decide whether to dunk the ball or pass it to an open man. In other words, I may be committed to the air, but I still have some control over it.

  Julius Erving

  Men, Air, Twists

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• As the skipping rope hit the pavement, so did the ball. As the rope curved over the head of the jumping child, the child with the ball caught the ball. Down came the ropes. Down came the balls. Over and over again. Up. Down. All in rhythm. All identical. Like the houses. Like the paths. Like the flowers

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Children, Flower, Jumping

  Madeleine L'Engle (2013). “A Wrinkle in Time Trilogy”, p.60, Macmillan

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• My motto is, 'When in doubt, shoot the ball'.

  J. R. Smith

  Doubt, Motto, My Motto

  "J.R. Smith: 'When in doubt, shoot it'" by Dave McMenamin, www.espn.com. January 8, 2015.

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• Hitting a ball dead perfect - the only peace.

  Andre Agassi

  Perfect, Hitting

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• I failed math twice, never fully grasping probability theory. I mean, first off, who cares if you pick a black ball or a white ball out of the bag? And second, if you’re bent over about the color, don’t leave it to chance. Look in the damn bag and pick the color you want.

  Janet Evanovich

  Mean, Math, Probability Theory

  Janet Evanovich (2010). “Hard Eight: A Stephanie Plum Novel”, p.113, Macmillan

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• The moment I've got a ball at my feet, I'm happy.

  Thierry Henry

  Feet, Moments

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• I am a believer in passing the ball on the ground, I was lucky to be part of teams like that at Arsenal, with the French national team and with Monaco and at Barcelona. I know you can win in other ways, but I believe that is the way football should be played.

  Thierry Henry

  Football, Team, Believe

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• Organisms are not billiard balls, propelled by simple and measurable external forces to predictable new positions on life's pool table. Sufficiently complex systems have greater richness. Organisms have a history that constrains their future in myriad, subtle ways.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Simple, Pool Table, Way

  Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History”, p.16, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Great clubs have had one thing in common throughout history, regardless of era and tactics. They owned the pitch and they owned the ball. That means when you have the ball, you dictate play and when you are defending, you control the space

  Arrigo Sacchi

  Mean, Play, Space

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• Guys like Todd Bridges never overcame being a child star. You can't have any big failures. I've always felt regular. I played organized ball at the rec league. At 13, they told me I sold 3 million copies. I didn't know what that meant.

  Bow Wow

  Stars, Children, Bridges

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