Balls Quotes - Page 36

• 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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• 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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• 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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• My best has to be for Barcelona against Villarreal in 2006 - that is the one I am asked most about, and it is the one I am most proud of. Xavi chipped the ball to me, I chested it down, twisted and hit an overhead kick. It was the final goal in a 4-0 win.

  Ronaldinho

  Winning, Goal, Finals

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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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• I have no physical genius about me. I cant dribble a ball and run at the same time, I cant do lay-ups - Im not an athlete. But my experience as a kid was, I was made fun of so much that what I did then, is, I wouldnt participate. And I think I cheated myself out of a lot of fun.

  Rich Mullins

  Running, Fun, Athlete

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• When I see three balls, I just swing at the middle one.

  Hack Wilson

  Swings, Three, Middle

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• You fight and fight. Get every ball back, run every ball down and never, ever doubt.

  Sloane Stephens

  Running, Fighting, Doubt

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• Sometimes, it's good to have a tremendous star, because everyone understands he has to get the ball.

  Phil Simms

  Sports, Stars, Sometimes

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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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• The fellow who can pay only twenty-five cents to see a ball game always will be just as welcome at Comiskey Park as the box seat holder.

  Charles Comiskey

  Games, Twenties, Pay

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• I have big nuts. huge nuts. Elephantitis of the balls - that's what I have.

  Eminem

  Nuts, Bigs, Huge

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• The history of a battle, is not unlike the history of a ball. Some individuals may recollect all the little events of which the great result is the battle won or lost, but no individual can recollect the order in which, or the exact moment at which, they occurred, which makes all the difference as to their value or importance.

  Duke of Wellington

  Order, Differences, Battle

  1815 Of the Battle of Waterloo. Letter, 8 Aug.

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• Like most kids, my dad played. He would drag us out to the course and make us shag balls for him and caddy and all that kind of stuff.

  Tom Lehman

  Dad, Kids, Stuff

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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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• If you watch Rafael Nadal play tennis, you can only respond with amazement and great admiration. He is an incredible athlete with so much discipline, so much concentration and someone who likes to put a lot of passion into every point. Words fail to come out of me to describe his game appropriately. I've rarely seen anyone who approaches a ball with so much attention. With such passion and joy that it makes great fun to watch him. With him, you can associate everything that makes tennis so beautiful.

  Steffi Graf

  Beautiful, Fun, Passion

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• It is a fact of life that people give dinner parties, and when they invite you, you have to turn around and invite them back. Often they retaliate by inviting you again, and you must then extend another invitation. Back and forth you go, like Ping-Pong balls, and what you end up with is called social life.

  Laurie Colwin

  Party, Giving, People

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• Liverpool can play for only five minutes and win the game, that is the way they are. They pump the ball into the box and with good set-piece delivery they keep you under pressure.

  Alex Ferguson

  Soccer, Football, Winning

  "Crouch rises to the occasion but Smith laid low with a broken leg" by Paul Wilson, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2006.

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• Giving Cristiano that much time and space on the ball is like giving Dracula the keys to the blood bank

  Ray Hudson

  Keys, Blood, Space

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• Juggling is an illusion. ... In reality, the balls are being independently caught and thrown in rapid succession. ... It is actually task switching.

  Gary W. Keller

  Reality, Tasks, Illusion

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• In American Romances, her new book of essays, Rebecca Brown has a voice that is full of pop references, family stories, and the fruits of a lifetime of -- in her perfect phrase - extreme reading. The voice is a hoot, and it is dead serious. This is writing with exquisite control, fully up to the task Brown takes on of playing a fierce game of beach ball with deep problems of American (and personal) history and identity.

  Susan Stinson

  Beach, Book, Reading

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