Balls Quotes - Page 34

• The ball of rumor and criticism, once it starts rolling, is difficult to stop.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Gossip, Criticism, Rumor

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• I don't like to play favorites, and I do try to spread the ball around. But there's an old rule: You throw to the guys who get open in practice.

  Peyton Manning

  Practice, Play, Nfl

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• I like to run the slants. The slants are cool. I like routes that you can catch the ball running.

  Calvin Johnson

  Running, Nfl, Routes

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• I don't really get too frustrated. I know I'm going to get the ball.

  Calvin Johnson

  Nfl, Frustrated, Knows

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• It's kind of boring to me if teams never throw the ball.

  Peyton Manning

  Team, Nfl, Kind

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• [Petunias are] as hopelessly impractical as a chiffon ball dress.

  Eleanor Perenyi

  Dresses, Petunias

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• I think it's very, very tough to compare postseason and in-season, just for the simple fact that there's the heightened levels of energy on both sides of the ball.

  Ndamukong Suh

  Simple, Thinking, Facts

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• But there is a difference between playing well and hitting the ball well. Hitting the ball well is about thirty percent of it. The rest is being comfortable with the different situations on the course.

  Mickey Wright

  Golf, Differences, Different

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• There's nobody on my ball club that doesn't go from first to third on a base hit, or from second to home. Every time you steal a base, you're taking a gamble on getting thrown out, and taking the bat out of the hitter's hand.

  Casey Stengel

  Home, Yankees, Hands

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• You can trust a crystal ball about as far as you can throw it.

  Faith Popcorn

  Future, Popcorn, Crystals

  Faith Popcorn (1991). “The Popcorn Report: Faith Popcorn on the Future of Your Company, Your World, Your Life”, p.102, BookBaby

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• I'd punch that cocksucker in the balls before I'd cup him for comfort.

  Calamity Jane

  Comfort, Cups

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• Women work overtime, do double triple duty, juggle ten balls at once -- children, careers, husbands, schoolwork, housework, church work, and more work -- and when one of the balls drops, we think something is wrong with us.

  Susan L. Taylor

  Husband, Children, Thinking

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• Hollywood was always heartbreak town, though most of the world fancied it to be Shangri-La, King Solomon's mines, and Fort Knox rolled into one big ball of 24-karat gold.

  Hedda Hopper

  Kings, Gold, Towns

  Hedda Hopper (1963). “the Whole Truth and Nothing But”

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• When it's time to focus in and play ball during the season, 100% of my focus is on that. When it's the offseason and I've got time to be away and I can do other interests - they don't conflict. I'm good at compartmentalizing. I can put everything in its appropriate box at the time and open it up when I need to at a later time.

  Larry Fitzgerald

  Play, Focus, Needs

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• The spirit of sarcasm lives and thrives in the midst of universal wreck; its balls are enchanted and itself invulnerable, and it braves retaliations and reprisals because itself is a mere flash, a bodiless and magical nothing.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Sarcasm, Brave, Wrecks

  Entry for February 16, 1868, "The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel", Book by Henri-Frédéric Amiel, translated by Mary Augusta Ward, 1882.

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• Every time I step in between those lines, I'm in the zone. If you get between me and the ball, you might get smashed a couple times. Things happen, plays happen.

  Carli Lloyd

  Couple, Play, Lines

  "This Pre-World Cup Interview with Carli Lloyd Shows Just How Awesomely Intense She Is". Interview with George Quraishi, www.slate.com. July 8, 2015.

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• There are guys on Tour who hit the ball further than me. I always thought it was important to have power, but more important to have power in reserve.

  Tiger Woods

  Guy, Important, Reserves

  Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. October 13, 2006.

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• It is technology. They all changed to a harder golf ball, so they gave up spinning on the greens. They all changed to longer drivers, bigger heads with hotter faces and lighter shafts. The problem is, the harder you hit it, the more control you lose.

  Tiger Woods

  Golf, Technology, Spinning

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• Got dragon balls like my name was Vegeta

  Joey Badass

  Dragons, Names

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• Practice any faith you wish. Got a ball field up the island where you can practice. I'll give the Deity a fast one high and inside if he crowds the plate.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Islands, Practice, Giving

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.4473, Simon and Schuster

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• Sometimes the table was graced with immense apple-pies, or saucers full of preserved peaches and pears; but it was always sure to boast an enormous dish of balls of sweetened dough, fried in hog's fat, and called doughnuts, or olykoeks - a delicious kind of cake, at present scarce known in this city, except in genuine Dutch families.

  Washington Irving

  Food, Apples, Pie

  Washington Irving (1854). “The Works”

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• I have never been much of a groomer. I take baths a lot, but I don't wear deodorant. I don't have to. I have a miraculous body scent. I've had women smell me and say that should be bottled. I would advise guys to lay off the Drakkar, because the cavemen weren't wearing it. They might have been putting mint leaves on their balls, but your scent is grown naturally. I have really good dating advice.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Smell, Dating, Guy

  "Zach Galifianakis: Soon You Will Be Laughing at This Man". Interview with Peter Martin, www.esquire.com. June 2, 2009.

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• There's only, I think, in life, three things that I do pretty well: Performing, I still can field ground balls, and I make nice kids.

  Billy Crystal

  Nice, Kids, Thinking

  "Billy Crystal And John Goodman: How We Got Here". Interview with Adam B. Vary, www.buzzfeed.com. June 14, 2013.

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• If you're looking to freelance, just get as many gigs going as you can, and you can make it work... It's about getting as many side projects as possible, keeping as many balls in the air as you can, and what you're doing, basically, is diversifying your portfolio, with the same kinds of rewards. One falls through, and you still have another one to work on.

  Chris Hardwick

  Fall, Air, Gigs

  "How Nerdist Chris Hardwick Gets Things Done". Interview with Kevin Purdy, lifehacker.com. April 29, 2008.

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• There's times when you catch a ball and really didn't even see that ball. You're like, 'That couldn't have been all me.'

  Calvin Johnson

  Nfl, Has Beens

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