Balls Quotes - Page 15

• 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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• If you're a good experienced player, you wknow what it takes to do. If you're in trouble, you know how to change. One hundred percent of my game is instinct. I never stop and think I'm going to hit a ball crosscourt or down the line. I just do it.

  Bjorn Borg

  Leadership, Sports, Player

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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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• To catch the ball, face up, look at all of my options and then pass. I was playing hot potato. I didn't want to be the guy to stall the triangle.

  Karl Malone

  Guy, Hot, Looks

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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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• I write everything with fountain pens. I don't know why. I've done it since I was bar mitzvahed. I was given a fountain pen, a Parker fountain pen, and I loved it, and I've never liked writing anything with pencils or ball-points.

  Tony Kushner

  Writing, Bars, Done

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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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• Necessity is often the mother of balls

  Nora Roberts

  Mother

  Nora Roberts (2009). “Black Hills”, p.216, Penguin

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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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• 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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• 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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• I can remember when, as a beginner, I was delighted with any ball as long as it would bounce.

  Helen Wills

  Long, Beginners, Remember

  HELEN WILLS “TENNIS”

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• My idol was always Tomas Rosicky. He used to be phenomenal. He had such a good eye for an opening and knew where his team-mates were and he was so quick. I copied everything about him – right down to his sweatbands. [] he would be one of the world’s best players. Jack Wilshere is a perfect player. Boy, he’s good. He’s so quick and skillful with the ball at his feet.

  Marco Reus

  Team, Eye, Boys

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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