Balls Quotes - Page 37

• 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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• I truly believe my job starts the minute I leave the baseball field. Going out and catching ground balls and hitting, that's a job, and that's what I've wanted to do ever since I was a kid. But when you think about leaving that field, that's when the job and the demands really start. In New York, Seattle, every city. The community, the media, business stuff. You have to stay on a narrow path.

  Alex Rodriguez

  Sports, Baseball, New York

  "A-Rod and Jeter: Rewind". Interview with Alan Schwarz, www.baseballamerica.com. February 19, 2004.

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• He's good at that, David Beckham - he's good at kicking the ball

  Jimmy Armfield

  Kicking, Beckham

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• If you look hard enough, you can find race issues and racism in everything. I know people who say, 'See, I don't play pool 'cuz that's where the white ball chase the black ball off the table. So I prefer bowling, where the big black ball knock down the white pins with the red necks.'

  Chi McBride

  Issues, Race, Play

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• There are moments where we forgot what got us to where we are now. ... We stopped moving the ball. We know how it works. We are playing a great team with great players, and we've got to be close to perfect to win.

  Manu Ginobili

  Team, Moving, Winning

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• The water of the fountain ran, the swift river ran, the day ran into evening, so much life in the city ran into death according to rule, time and tide waited for no man, the rats were sleeping close together in their dark holes again, the Fancy Ball was lighted up at supper, all things ran their course.

  Charles Dickens

  Sleep, Dark, Men

  charles dickens (1868). “a tale of two cities”, p.104

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• People still do not understand that a live fish is more valuable than a dead one, and that destructive fishing techniques are taking a wrecking ball to biodiversity.

  Sylvia Earle

  Fishing, People, Technique

  "Can We Stop Killing Our Oceans Now, Please?" by Sylvia Earle, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 14, 2013.

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• With no one collecting his knockdowns, what was Crouch supposed to do, juggle the ball with his head until the midfield support arrived?

  Tony Cascarino

  Soccer, Football, Support

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• When someone kisses someone or flushes the toilet
  it is my other who sits in a ball and cries.
  My other beats a tin drum in my heart.
  My other hangs up laundry as I try to sleep.
  My other cries and cries and cries
  when I put on a cocktail dress.

  Anne Sexton

  Sleep, Heart, Kissing

  Anne Sexton, “The Other”

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• I was never a strikeout pitcher. Why should I throw eight or nine balls to get a man out when I got away with three or four?

  Stan Coveleski

  Men, Eight, Nine

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• Four turnovers. Two assists. I told him he'd have the game ball if he had taken care of the ball a little bit better.

  Bo Ryan

  Taken, Games, Two

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• But the hobbledehoy, though he blushes when women address him, and is uneasy even when he is near them, though he is not master ofhis limbs in a ball-room, and is hardly master of his tongue at any time, is the most eloquent of beings, and especially eloquent among beautiful women.

  Anthony Trollope

  Marriage, Beautiful, Addresses

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• In Monster's Ball I went nude, which was scary, but I took the chance and that's how I like to approach my career.

  Halle Berry

  Careers, Scary, Monsters

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• My eye-balls are glass,
  my limbs marble,
  my face fixed
  in its marble mask.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Eye, Glasses, Magic

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.244, New Directions Publishing

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• All I can do is do my best work, try to create the best kind of moment to moment reality that I can do. That's what I do. I'm an actor. And all the rest of it is like baseball. You hit the ball. Sometimes it goes in the hole. Sometimes it goes to the player.

  Tobin Bell

  Baseball, Reality, Player

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• The British press hate a winner who's British. They don't like any British man to have balls as big as a cow's like I have.

  Nigel Benn

  Hate, Men, Cows

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• Pinball games were constrained by physical limitations, ultimately by the physical laws that govern the motion of a small metal ball. The video world knows no such bounds. Objects fly, spin, accelerate, change shape and color, disappear and reappear. Their behavior, like the behavior of anything created by a computer program, is limited only by the programmer's imagination. The objects in a video game are representations of objects. And a representation of a ball, unlike a real one, never need obey the laws of gravity unless its programmer wants it to.

  Sherry Turkle

  Real, Color, Law

  Sherry Turkle (2005). “The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit”, p.69, MIT Press

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• I want to be able to just act and never do any interview, but I don't have the balls to stand up to the studio and say, "I'm never doing another interview in my life!"

  Christian Bale

  Want, Able, Interviews

  "Christian Bale May Kill Someone Yet". Interview with John H. Richardson, www.esquire.com. November 15, 2010.

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• You definitely have to do other things when you know your shot isn't falling. You can't just depend on knocking down the three-ball.

  Chris Copeland

  Fall, Three, Knocking

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• People are already worrying about the ball moving around and all that jazz.

  Mahela Jayawardene

  Moving, People, Worry

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• He (Sandy Koufax) throws a 'radio ball,' a pitch you hear, but you don't see.

  Gene Mauch

  Radio, Sandy

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• Whether it be personal or musical, I just think Im a walking art piece, just a ball of creativity.

  Chris Brown

  Art, Creativity, Thinking

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• I think of myself as 'catching' the ball with my bat and letting the pitcher supply the power.

  Barry Bonds

  Thinking, Bats, Catching

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• How can I play baseball if I'm stupid? If I was stupid I wouldn't have pitched in the World Series. I'd be playing ball in Mexico or Yugoslavia or on Pluto.

  Joaquin Andujar

  Baseball, Stupid, Yugoslavia

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• He's (Rafael Palmeiro) always the left-handed swing you want to copy.
  He's got a real smooth swing and he's never off balance. He's always on top of
  the ball. I just like watching him hit.

  Jorge Posada

  Real, Swings, Balance

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