Balls Quotes - Page 12

• I think in international football you have to be able to handle the ball.

  Glenn Hoddle

  Football, Thinking, Able

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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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• A rebounder, or a shot-blocker for that matter, is always at a disadvantage if he tells himself the only way he can succeed is by out jumping the guy next to him. Sometimes he will have to, but most of the time he will not. Most of my rebounds came from positioning, where I was able to get the ball while in heavy traffic.

  Bill Russell

  Jumping, Guy, Matter

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• I am very fortunate I can send my kids to private school, but everybody does not have the money. If you cannot get your kid in a good school today, your kids are going to be behind the eight ball.

  Spike Lee

  Kids, School, Eight

  "Spike Lee Talks Obama, the End of Mookie's Brooklyn, and the Hollywood Color Line". Interview with Will Leitch, www.vulture.com. July 8, 2012.

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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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• When Mia Hamm touches the ball, you just hold your breath.

  Anson Dorrance

  Mia, Breaths

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• I really hate it when I can’t score runs from a ball.

  AB de Villiers

  Running, Hate, Score

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• I read the last Harry Potter, and I cried for at least the last 70 pages. Awful! I was curled into a ball and I just kept sobbing. It was embarrassing. I was loud, and I just kept wiping tears away so I could see the page.

  Jesmyn Ward

  Tears, Potters, Pages

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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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• Winning the Championship is like taking a 26-year ball and chain from around our legs. Now we can go forward, and hopefully dominate English football for the next 10 years, like Liverpool did.

  Bryan Robson

  Soccer, Football, Winning

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• I can't stay in the box and wait for the ball. I can't - I would die.

  Thierry Henry

  Soccer, Football, Player

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• This is my moment, this is my chance to make a difference, and you know, I just went for the ball, I attacked it, and I went and got it, ... I was gonna catch that ball, regardless of what happens.

  Santana Moss

  Differences, Making A Difference, Chance

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• If there's grass in the field, play ball!

  William J. Clinton

  Play, Fields, Grass

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• The fact of the matter is this: Austin can take his ball, and go home. But as far as The Rock is concerned, as far as I'm concerned, this is home.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Home, Rocks, Wwe

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• ... there's been a lot of balls that have been pounding in that end zone.

  John Cena

  Wwe, Ends, Has Beens

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• Cyclists, I work with a number of cyclists. They are great athletes; they are great aerobic athletes. If you ask them to hit a baseball or golf ball, they can't do that.

  Eric Heiden

  Baseball, Athlete, Golf

  "Eric Heiden 25: An exclusive interview". Interview with Charlie Snyder, snyderemarks.com. February 17, 2005.

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• Free people have a serious problem with place, being in a place, using up a place, deciding which new place to rotate to. Americans ricochet around the United States like billiard balls.

  Walker Percy

  People, United States, Serious

  Walker Percy (2011). “Signposts in a Strange Land”, p.7, Open Road Media

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• I could play ball all day. That's all I want to do.

  Stephon Marbury

  Play, Want

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• There is a slow-growing beauty which only comes to perfection in old age.... I have seen sweeter smiles on a lip of seventy than I ever saw on a lip of seventeen. There is the beauty of youth, and there is also the beauty of holiness—a beauty much more seldom met; and more frequently found in the arm-chair by the fire, with grandchildren around its knee, than in the ball-room or the promenade.

  Alexander Smith

  Grandchildren, Fire, Perfection

  Alexander Smith (1914). “Dreamthorp”

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• The word is a bouncing ball The ruler throws from his balcony. The word has been a shot of morphine. Rulers calm their people with speeches.

  Nizar Qabbani

  People, Speech, Calm

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• 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.

  Berenice Abbott

  Cities, Challenges, Portraits

  Berenice Abbott, Julia Van Haaften (1989). “Berenice Abbott, photographer: a modern vision : a selection of photographs and essays”

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• One small ball in the air. I wouldn't believe that at this moment you have to fear the intelligence aspects of this.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Believe, Moon, Air

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1958). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1957”, p.724, Best Books on

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• For the baby boomer generation, a home is now seen not as the cornerstone of advancement but a ball and chain, restricting their ability and their mobility to move and seek out a job at another location.

  Mortimer Zuckerman

  Baby, Jobs, Moving

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