Balls Quotes - Page 38

• 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

  8 Copy quote

• Some of the longest home runs I've hit, I didn't actually realize they were going that far. Everyone says, 'What does it feel like to hit the ball that far?' Actually, there's no feeling at all. I know when the ball meets the bat whether or not it's left the park. It's a nice easy thing.

  Mark McGwire

  Running, Nice, Home

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  4 Copy quote

• The smaller the town the more important the ball club was. But if you beat a bigger town they'd practically hand you the key to the city. Any if you lost a game by making an error in the ninth or something like that, well, the best thing to do was just pack your grip and hit the road, because they'd never let you forget it.

  Smoky Joe Wood

  Games, Cities, Errors

  5 Copy quote

• I was not able to understand how it could be right to pay an actor, or a singer, or an instrumentalist for entertaining the public and wrong to pay a ball player for doing exactly the same thing.

  Albert Goodwill Spalding

  Player, Actors, Singers

  4 Copy quote

• No human mind may measure the blessings conferred by the game of base ball on the soldiers of the Civil War. It had its earliest evolution when soldiers, North and South, were striving to forget their foes by cultivating, through this grand game, fraternal friendships with comrades in arms.

  Albert Goodwill Spalding

  War, Blessing, Games

  8 Copy quote

• Prussia was hatched from a cannon-ball.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Prussia, Cannons

  5 Copy quote

• Roll on, thou ball, roll on!
  Through pathless realms of Space,
  Roll on!

  W. S. Gilbert

  Space, Earth, Realms

  William Schwenck Gilbert, “To The Terrestrial Globe”

  23 Copy quote

  Show source

• Name and fame! to fly sublime Through the courts, the camps, the schools Is to be the ball of Time, Bandied in the hands of fools.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  School, Hands, Names

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.527, Delphi Classics

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I have heard of managers who encourage players not to slide hard for fear they will get hurt and be lost from the lineup for a time. That is why you occasionally see a player go into second base on a double-play ball and not even bother to slide. I wonder, could Ty Cobb
  sit though plays like that and hold his lunch?

  Frank Robinson

  Hurt, Player, Lunch

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

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The vicissitudes of life resemble one of those gilded balls seen in a fountain. Thrown up by the force of the water, it flies up and down - now at the top, catching the rays of the sun, now cast into the depths, then again shooting up, sometimes so high that it escapes altogether, and falls to the ground.

  Lady Randolph Churchill

  Life, Fall, Water

  6 Copy quote

• 80 percent of the balls that don't reach the hole, don't go in.

  Yogi Berra

  Isms, Holes, Miscellaneous

  9 Copy quote

• Where wildness and disorder are visible in the dance, there Satan, death and all kinds of mischief are likewise upon the floor. For this reason I could wish that the dance of death were painted on the walls of all ball-rooms in order to warn the dancers, not by the levity of their deportment, to provoke the God of righteousness to visit them with a sudden judgment.

  Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

  Wall, Order, Dancing

  4 Copy quote

• Don't tell me what delusion he entertains regarding God, or what mountebank he follows in politics, or what he springs from, or what he submits to from his wife. Simply tell me how he makes his living. It is the safest and surest of all known tests. A man who gets his board and lodging on this ball in an ignominious way is inevitably an ignominious man.

  H. L. Mencken

  Spring, Work, Character

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.20, Vintage

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I know I'm good when I'm hitting the ball the other way - that's Albert Pujols.

  Albert Pujols

  Hitting, Way, Knows

  14 Copy quote

• 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

  5 Copy quote

• It has changed, quite a lot. It is very different now, there are quicker men, they are taller, stronger, have great stamina. The balls have also become faster. Tennis has now become a power sport. There is more depth in the game, as well, there are many more players than there used to be. The entire character of the game has changed.

  Bjorn Borg

  Sports, Character, Player

  13 Copy quote

• The sport to which I owe so much has undergone profound changes, but it's still baseball. Kids still imitate their heroes on playgrounds. Fans still ruin expensive suits going after foul balls that cost five dollars. Hitting streaks still make the network news and hot dogs still taste better at the ballpark than at home.

  Duke Snider

  Sports, Baseball, Dog

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

  27 Copy quote

  Show source

• A good man may fall, but he falls like a ball [and rebounds]; the ignoble man falls like a lump of clay.

  Bhartrhari

  Fall, Men, Good Man

  21 Copy quote

• I could juggle anything in my day. Balls, cigar boxes, knives...But there was one thing I could never juggle. My income tax.

  W. C. Fields

  Knives, Income, Cigar

  5 Copy quote

• I don't like to hear woman argue...it makes my balls itch.

  Kevin Hart

  Arguing

  6 Copy quote

• He batted against spitballs, shineballs, emeryballs and all the other trick deliveries. He never figured anything out or studied anything with the same scientific approach I gave it. He just swung. If he'd ever had any knowledge of batting, his average would have been phenomenal. ... he seemed content to just punch the ball, and I can still see those line drives whistling to the far precincts. Joe Jackson hit the ball harder than any man ever to play baseball.

  Ty Cobb

  Baseball, Men, Average

  "Shoeless Joe and Ragtime Baseball". Book by Harvey Frommer, p. 72, 2008.

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• I couldn't catch a ball if it had Elmer's Glue all over it. And my father had to be this ex-football star. He didn't know what to tell his friends, so he told them all I had Polio. On Father's Day, I used to limp for him.

  Matthew West

  Football, Stars, Father

  11 Copy quote

• Got any pitches? I got five pitches-rise-ball, curveball, screwball, drop-ball and changeup.

  Jennie Finch

  Curveballs, Five

  7 Copy quote

• And two balls minus one, six titles at the tour de France.

  Bo Burnham

  Funny, Humor, Two

  Song: New Math, Album: Bo Burnham

  18 Copy quote

  Show source