Balls Quotes - Page 31

• You don't wear pants that tight unless you got balls.

  Seth Green

  Pants

  "Seth Green, Geoff Johns, and More Talk ROBOT CHICKEN: VILLAINS IN PARADISE DC Comics Special". Interview with Tommy Cook, collider.com. April 5, 2014.

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• In order to play some sports there's quite a big cost implication, whereas football is relatively cheap. All you need is a ball and a couple of jumpers to practise.

  Hope Powell

  Sports, Football, Couple

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• I usually am accused of having a crystal ball into which I can gaze and look into the future.

  Gerald Seymour

  Crystals, Looks, Accused

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• A woman in Great Britain has died after being hit in the back of the head by a golf ball, on the first hole. Her husband was so distraught, he only played the front nine.

  Jay Leno

  Husband, Golf, Nine

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• The leg of a baby is stronger than the balls of Muhamed Ali

  Imi Lichtenfeld

  Baby, Stronger, Legs

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• A lie is like a snow-ball; the longer it is rolled, the larger it is.

  Martin Luther

  Lying, Snow

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• Yinzer: DAMN!! I wish I had your balls! Tucker:"I wish you had a breath mint, but I guess we don't always get what we wish for.

  Tucker Max

  Wish, Mint, Damn

  Tucker Max (2011). “Assholes Finish First”, p.230, Simon and Schuster

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• Buffon is a gentleman thinking only of the ball [after Gianluigi Buffon's strong tackle on Andy Carroll during a friendly with Newcastle

  Claudio Ranieri

  Strong, Thinking, Gentleman

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• When I was young, I could bounce back from things like a brand-new rubber ball.

  Kobo Abe

  Rubber, Youth, Young

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• We just couldn't hit shots. We had good looks but they weren't falling and we kept turning the ball over.

  Luol Deng

  Fall, Looks, Looking Good

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• In soccer, the blindest player is the one who sees nothing but the ball.

  Nelson Rodrigues

  Soccer, Player

  "À sombra das chuteiras imortais: crônicas de futebol" by Nelson Rodrigues, Ruy Castro - Publicado por Companhia das Letras, (p. 102), 1993.

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• Sexism in politics is nothing new when you're standing for election. But don't stand for election and it's almost as bad. Shockingly, David Cameron thought it acceptable to claim this week that my decision not to run for the Labour leadership was because my husband, Ed Balls, "stopped [me] from standing."

  Yvette Cooper

  Running, Husband, Decision

  "Yvette Cooper: Why I'm Not Standing for Labour Leader – This Time". www.theguardian.com. May 28, 2010.

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• The crystal ball has a question mark in its center. There are some fundamental choices to be made. We will either choose to continue to wage a hopeless war to preserve the existing architecture for copyright by upping the stakes and using better weapons to make sure that people respect it. If we do this, public support for copyright will continue to weaken, pushing creativity underground and producing a generation that is alienated from the copyright concept.

  Lawrence Lessig

  War, Creativity, People

  WIPO Magazine Interview, www.wipo.int. February, 2011.

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• I feel like I got a good jump on the ball. I turned my head and picked a spot out to run to. I was able to look back at the ball real quick again and it fell right into my glove.

  Trot Nixon

  Running, Real, Looks

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• I probably hit the ball as far today as I did 40 years ago. That just shouldn't be.

  Gene Littler

  Years, Years Ago, Today

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• Why the hell not run a race across the United States? A balls-out, shoot-the-moon, f***-the-establishment rumble from New York to Los Angeles to prove what we had been harping about for years, for example, that good drivers in good automobiles could employ the American Interstate system the same way the Germans were using their Autobahns? Yes, make high-speed travel by car a reality! Truth and justice affirmed by an overtly illegal act.

  Brock Yates

  Running, New York, Moon

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• Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life. Each lapse is like the letting fall of a ball of string which one is carefully winding up; a single slip undoes more than a great many turns will wind again.

  William James

  Fall, Wind, Suffering

  William James, Robert D Richardson (2010). “The Heart of William James”, p.111, Harvard University Press

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• The pitcher wound up and he flang the ball at the batter. The batter swang and missed. The pitcher flang the ball again and this time the batter connected. He hit a high fly right to the center fielder. The center fielder was all set to catch the ball, but at the last minute his eyes were blound by the sun and he dropped it.

  Dizzy Dean

  Humorous, Eye, Lasts

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• Next time you see a yardful of sprouting dandelions, note that they look remarkably like things we call "flowers." And later, when the flowers turn into fluff balls, look closely at one of those fluff balls and ask yourself whether it's really so unattractive.

  Robert Wright

  Nature, Flower, Looks

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• I was never nervous when I had the ball, but when I let go I was scared to death.

  Lefty Gomez

  Letting Go, Yankees, Scared

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• The last player you want the ball to go to is the best player on the planet.

  Steven Gerrard

  Player, Want, Lasts

  "Henry pounces to put Champions League in reach" by Kevin McCarra, www.theguardian.com. March 12, 2006.

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• A lot of pitchers today are afraid of the ball. Warren Spahn pinch-hit for me when I was a rookie. He hit a sacrifice fly. I couldn't argue. I was 20 years old and just happy to be in the big leagues. And Spahnnie was a good hitter.

  Joe Torre

  Sacrifice, Yankees, Years

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• I've done for the most part pretty much what I intended - I ended up doing comedy, writing and painting. I've had a ball. And as I get older, I just become an older kid.

  Jonathan Winters

  Writing, Kids, Done

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Edgar found a way to get the ball where nobody was standing.

  Kevin Millar

  Way, Found, Standing

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• I didn't have a grip on that ball. I shouldn't have thrown it.

  Kevin Millar

  Thrown

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