Balls Quotes - Page 11

• The gods play games with men as balls.

  Plautus

  Men, Games, Play

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 321-25, Captivi Prologue, XXII, 1922.

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• Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Character, Gun, Games

  Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

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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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• I got into pro ball at 18 and played until I was almost 39, non-stop.

  Ryne Sandberg

  Non Stop

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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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• Ledley King would get the ball off you without you even noticing he's the only defender in England who doesn't hold onto you, and he sometimes still gets the ball off my feet easily.

  Thierry Henry

  Kings, Feet, England

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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• 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, May

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

  Gale Sayers

  Thinking, Years, Games

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• In London it had seemed impossible to travel without the proper evening clothes. One could see an invitation arriving for an Embassy ball or something. But on the other side of Europe with the first faint tinges of faraway places becoming apparent and exciting, to say nothing of vanishing roads and extra weight, Embassy balls held less significance.

  Robert Edison Fulton, Jr.

  Europe, Clothes, Arriving

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• I hear your chants. I hear your cat calls. And yes it's true. I'm obsessed with other men's balls. WORD!

  Kurt Angle

  Cat, Men, Wwe

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• If you run the ball, you control the clock. If you control the clock, you usually control the game.

  Tiki Barber

  Running, Games, Clock

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• When I think of my career, I can't help but think of the kid with his ball, falling in love.

  Steve Nash

  Falling In Love, Kids, Thinking

  "Steve Nash Retires" by Joel Balsam, www.askmen.com. March 21, 2015.

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• Some teams can't or don't pass the ball. What are you playing for? What's the point? That's not football. Combine, pass, play. That's football - for me, at least.

  Xavi

  Football, Team, Play

  "I'm a romantic, says Xavi, heartbeat of Barcelona and Spain". Interview with Sid Lowe, www.theguardian.com. February 11, 2011.

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

  Maria Sharapova

  Missing, Court, Feels

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• If I lose the ball, I lose it trying to do the right thing. That's the way it is.

  Frank Lampard

  Trying, Way, Ifs

  "Frank Lampard draws on past wins over Barça to plot Spain conquest" by Richard Williams, www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2011.

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• Barcelona players are passing the ball at least 25 times to reach the goal, while Real Madrid's Xabi Alonso is doing this all in a single pass.

  Roberto Mancini

  Real, Player, Goal

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• I’ve always wanted to tackle the casual part of dressing. Knits to me are always just easy. I’ve fantasized about packing a suitcase of only knits: You just throw them in, roll them in a ball, pull them out and they still look fabulous.

  Nanette Lepore

  Looks, Suitcases, Fabulous

  "Designer Nanette Lepore Talks Travel, Flea Markets & Her Favorite eBay Find". Interview with Heather Summerville, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 4, 2010.

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• Those smutty books sell because women wish their husbands had half the balls the men in those books do.

  Tara Brown

  Husband, Book, Men

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• I felt sorry for the match ball - it came off the pitch crying.

  Johan Cruijff

  Soccer, Football, Sorry

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• Let the women play in more feminine clothes like they do in volleyball. They could, for example, have tighter shorts. Female players are pretty, if you excuse me for saying so, and they already have some different rules to men - such as playing with a lighter ball. That decision was taken to create a more female aesthetic, so why not do it in fashion?

  Sepp Blatter

  Soccer, Football, Volleyball

  "Make-up and short shorts improving women's football, says Brazilian official". www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2015.

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• Being thick isn't an affliction if you're a footballer, because your brains need to be in your feet. And Beckham works hard, he's brave and he crosses a ball superbly. He treats a football like he does a wife, lovingly, with caresses.

  Brian Clough

  Soccer, Football, Hard Work

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• It is one of my biggest regrets that Niall Quinn was not here during my time... I felt he was an intelligent player. It would have been a good combination with Thierry Henry. What I like with Quinn is if you look at the player who played next to him, he always scored 40 goals because he had a hand for his head and he just put the ball where you were. He was a team player. A top-class player makes other players look good and he had that player.

  Arsene Wenger

  Soccer, Football, Regret

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