Balls Quotes - Page 31

• I was supposed to take the ball out. I told coach, 'There's no way I'm taking the ball out, unless I can shoot it over the backboard and it goes in. I told him, 'Have somebody else take the ball out, give me the ball, and everybody get out of the way.'

  LeBron James

  Basketball, Nba, Giving

  "LeBron James hits insane buzzer-beater to tie series with Chicago Bulls" by Scott Davis, www.businessinsider.com. May 10, 2015.

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• For all his horses, knighthoods and championships, he hasn't got two of what I've got. And I don't mean balls!

  Brian Clough

  Soccer, Horse, Mean

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• The girls that I grew up with, and my friends and I, we just never had interests in common. I loved comedy. I loved Saturday Night Live, Gilda Radner, Lucille Ball, and Goldie Hawn movies. I just wanted to laugh. I liked women in comedy, and I liked male comics as I got a little older. My interests just never matched up with other girls'.

  Amy Schumer

  Girl, Night, Laughing

  Interview with Drew Fortune, www.avclub.com. April 26, 2012.

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• I've found is that by doing stand-up, I've actually learned how to combat depression. I don't have clinical, but I've definitely had my bouts with it. I just figured out that it's a choice. You're in control of your brain. When your brain is sending you bad information or bad thoughts, you can decide to go to the gym, or write a new joke - or if you're on the road, go to a ball game... something that's going to get the blood going. Or you can let those thoughts take you right down the rabbit hole.

  Bill Burr

  Writing, Blood, Games

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• When you become a parent you're endlessly obsessed with chatting to other moms and learning how they make it work - keep all the balls in the air if you like - because we all want to know how to be the best mom that we possibly can be.

  Tess Daly

  Mom, Air, Parent

  Source: www.digitalspy.com

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• The main thing you worry about is just coming up with songs at all. I don't sit down and write stuff like certain writers do. They think about what they are going to write first and then they write it. I just get what comes in at me. It's like I'm a musician and if I can keep my mitt on, I can catch the balls that come at me.

  Steven Tyler

  Song, Writing, Thinking

  "POP MUSIC : He Ain't Singin' the Blues : Outspokenly sober, Steven Tyler is loaded now with a lucrative new contract--and ready to answer the $30-million question: Can Aerosmith still rock?". Interview with Robert Hilburn, articles.latimes.com. April 18, 1993.

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• I think a mantra I always told myself is, "No matter how many times somebody pitches the ball at you, if you swing every time, eventually one of them is going to connect." Being yourself and persistence are two things that became my daily mantras, I suppose.

  Jamie Bell

  Being Yourself, Thinking, Persistence

  Interview with Robert Pattinson, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 20, 2015.

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• Basketball for me has always been a matter of rhythm - what you do bouncing the ball, how you bounce the ball, how you run, how you receive the ball to be in rhythm.

  Earl Monroe

  Basketball, Running, Matter

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• Water holes are sacrificial waters where you make a steady gift of your pride and high-priced balls.

  Tommy Bolt

  Pride, Water, Holes

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• That's the name of the game ... pleasing the customer. If we ever lose sight of that fact, we've lost the ball game.

  Ray Kroc

  Sight, Games, Names

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• My greatest point is my persistence... However down I am, I fight until the last ball.

  Lance Armstrong

  Fighting, Persistence, Lasts

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• Socrates said that, from above, the Earth looks like one of those twelve-patched leathern balls.

  Plato

  Twelve, Looks, Earth

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• It makes me sick when I see a guy just stare at a loose ball and watch it go out of bounds.

  Larry Bird

  Sick, Guy, Watches

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• I would still give my left ball to write anything as good as OK Computer.

  Chris Martin

  Writing, Giving, Computer

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

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• I'm human -- all I do is try to do my job. When I don't do it, the way it happened today, it's out of my control. He put the ball in play and it happened to find a hole. I wish I could take it back, but I can't. You move on.

  Mariano Rivera

  Jobs, Moving, Play

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• The bowlers I respected or feared or rated were not the ones who gave me lip or stared at me or abused me. More the ones who, at any stage of the game, when had they had the ball in hand, they were going to be at me, and they were going to have the skill and the fitness and the ability to be aggressive.

  Rahul Dravid

  Hands, Games, Skills

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• There is no substitute to taking a lot of a catches as a youngster if you want to do slip catching - you've got to catch, catch, catch. And more than doing the normal stuff, you have to vary your catching - you've got to take some catches with the tennis ball, you got to take some closer, some further away.

  Rahul Dravid

  Tennis, Want, Stuff

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• I worked the Giants win over the Texans earlier this season. The Giants ran the heck out of the ball. Eli Manning rolled out away from Watt just about every time and changed the release point on his passes. The Cowboys have a road map.

  Dan Fouts

  Winning, Cowboy, Giants

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• As far as sleeping goes, you're up and ready to go at six in the morning. Spring training was always a combination of relaxing and working, and I missed that quite a bit. I missed being around the ball field. A baseball. A bat. The smell of the uniform, you might say. Talking baseball. Seeing opponents as well as the Cubs.

  Lou Boudreau

  Baseball, Morning, Spring

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• When you see young players coming into the squad and pushing you, no matter what age you are, you have to react. You have to worry about yourself and perform as well as you can. If you end up looking around at others, wondering whos performing better, you take your eye off the ball.

  Frank Lampard

  Eye, Player, Squad

  "Frank Lampard fears for World Cup place as England prepare for Chile" by Dominic Fifield, www.theguardian.com. November 14, 2013.

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• Each night the sun sank right in our eyes along the sea, making an undulating glittering pathway, a golden track charted on the surface of the ocean which our ship followed unswervingly until the sun dipped below the edge of the horizon, and the pathway ran ahead of us faster than we could steam and slipped over the edge of the skyline - as if the sun had been a golden ball and had wound up its thread of gold too quickly for us to follow.

  Lawrence Beesley

  Ocean, Eye, Night

  Lawrence Beesley (2012). “The Loss of the S.S. Titanic”, p.24, Tales End Press

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• A glittering disco ball spins from the ceiling, but the music is something I've never heard, discordant and haunting and insistent, the kind of music that demands you dance.

  Candace Bushnell

  Ceilings, Demand, Haunting

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• That little white ball is always staring back at you, daring you to make a mistake.

  Sam Snead

  Mistake, White, Littles

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• When I went to work in a studio, I took my pride and made a nice little ball of it and threw it right out the window.

  Dorothy Arzner

  Nice, Pride, Littles

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

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• One idea I explore in my stand-up show is whether, if you try looking at the universe rationally and avoid coping mechanisms like mysticism or religion, you can still be happy knowing you are going to die after a brief time on this spinning ball.

  Robin Ince

  Ideas, Coping Mechanisms, Knowing

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