Balls Quotes - Page 39

• The wrecking ball is characteristic of our way with materials. We 'cannot afford' to log a forest selectively, to mine without destroying topography, or to farm without catastrophic soil erosion. A production-oriented economy can indeed live in this way, but only so long as production lasts.

  Wendell Berry

  Erosion, Long, Environmental

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• One time I dropped a fly ball in Milwaukee and, after the game, the writers asked me what happened. I told them, 'Well, I was looking up and a UFO flew right across. It was weird. I never saw anything like that in my life.' Man, I was only joking and they wrote it up and put it in the paper.

  Jesse Barfield

  Men, Games, Saws

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• Who else but an Englishman could invent an oval ball.

  Peter Pook

  Oval, Rugby, Englishmen

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• Some people throw a bit of their personality after their bad arguments, as if that might straighten their paths and turn them into right and good arguments-just as a man in a bowling alley, after he has let go of the ball, still tries to direct it with gestures.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Letting Go, Men, People

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.164, Modern Library

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• Everything we play when we are growing up, is team related. In this game (of golf) you can find all the answers yourself. You don't need to throw the ball in the air and play catch with yourself. You get a bucket of balls and go out there with your clubs, and you hit and learn and you get better. And there's no top.

  George Lopez

  Growing Up, Team, Golf

  "An Interview with George Lopez, Host of The Bob Hope Dessert Golf Classic for 2007". Interview with Paul Schienberg, psychedonline.com. April 24, 2007.

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• Becoming an actor wasn’t a choice – it was something I was forced into. At 3, you can’t make those choices... I supported my family, and if I got fired or missed an audition, I’d be punished as if I’d messed up in school. I was starved, because they wanted to keep my weight at a certain place; my hair was bleached – that was my life. I wasn’t allowed to play with kids on my block or ride a bike or play ball, in case I got a scratch – I wasn’t even allowed to be bar mitzvahed because I couldn’t attend enough lessons.

  Corey Feldman

  Block, School, Kids

  "The Hot Seat: Corey Feldman". Interview with Barbara Hoffman, nypost.com. June 26, 2005.

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• People who are close to me know, they so know that there were days when I was so tired that I would fall asleep anywhere. The onset photographer has pictures of me falling asleep everywhere. Like on chairs, on the floor, in the middle of a set, all curled up. There were times when crew members didn't know where to find me, but they knew I'd be curled up in a ball somewhere.

  Emma Watson

  Fall, Tired, People

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• Hitting the ball has never been my issue, so I can literally not pick up a racquet for two months and hit the ball, really, really nicely. I mean movement's always an issue.

  Andre Agassi

  Mean, Two, Issues

  "Why Does America Suck at Tennis?". Interview with Daniel Riley, www.gq.com. August 29, 2011.

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• Humor is hard, hard, hard. And if you fail with humor, you don't fail halfway. You drop the ball humor-wise and everyone notices.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Wise, Failing, Halfway

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• The game has changed since the '70s as more coaches have looked at ways to make it tougher on defenses. But I'm glad my career turned out the way it did - I would have never gotten a chance to learn the defensive side of the ball.

  Tony Dungy

  Games, Careers, Defense

  Interview with Aaron Schatz, www.footballoutsiders.com. May 11, 2010.

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• When you get into competition and get under pressure, and get over that ball and are looking at it, and know you have to hit it, it is having that system to depend on to get that ball to where you want it to be.

  Arnold Palmer

  Competition, Want, Pressure

  Source: kellysgolfhistory.blogspot.com

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• I patterned myself after Reggie Jackson. I wanted to have that same swing and hit some homeruns. When I was down in A-ball, I was trying to be Reggie Jackson and I was striking out all the time. And I was like, 'This isn't the way Reggie is doing it, so I got to change.'

  Rickey Henderson

  Swings, Trying, Way

  Interview with Donald Marquez, www.athleticsnation.com. May 7, 2012.

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• I think Pringles initial intention was to make tennis balls. But on the day that the rubber was supposed to show up, a big truckload of potatoes arrived. But Pringles is a laid back company. They said, "Screw it. Cut 'em up!"

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Cutting

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• There's a deep fly ball... Winfield goes back, back... his head hits the wall ... it's rolling towards second base.

  Jerry Coleman

  Funny, Baseball, Wall

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• Gene Richards swings, the ball bounces foul and hits him in the head. No harm done.

  Jerry Coleman

  Funny, Baseball, Humor

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• The first pitch to Tucker Ashford is grounded into left field. No, wait a minute. It's ball one. Low and outside.

  Jerry Coleman

  Funny, Baseball, Humor

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• I actually enjoy working with green screen, because I can imagine all that stuff happening, and I really cut my teeth on a movie I made called "Adaptation" where I had to imagine four-page dialogue scenes with my twin brother, who was nothing more than a tennis ball and a gas stand.

  Nicolas Cage

  Brother, Cutting, Tennis

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• I'm a musician - I'm always making music. Kobe Bryant is always playing ball. Well, Snoop Dogg is always recording.

  Snoop Dogg

  Musician, Wells

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• When you take a picture you haven't a clue that it is going to be what it is. Maybe you have a clue but you don't really know. There are too many possibilities. Part of the game is how many balls you can juggle. It is to me. When you are 12 you can juggle two. Maybe when you are 50 you can juggle five. That is an interesting concept to me: how much I can put in and still make it pull together?

  Lee Friedlander

  Photography, Games, Two

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• Cats are too independent. They piss me off. They play when they want, and then they turn their back on you. Dogs, you throw the ball, and they bring it back, tongue hanging out, tail wagging. Cats are like "Not right now, too busy." Definitely a dog man. Except when it comes to cleaning up after them! Cats win that!

  Denzel Washington

  Dog, Cat, Independent

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• Movies are a whole different ball-game, now. It's much more of a business - very scientific.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Games, Different, Whole

  Source: www.gamesradar.com

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• I am the dust in the sunlight,
  I am the ball of the sun . . .
  I am the mist of morning,
  the breath of evening . . . .
  I am the spark in the stone,
  the gleam of gold in the metal . . . .
  The rose and the nightingale
  drunk with its fragrance.
  I am the chain of being,
  the circle of the spheres,
  The scale of creation,
  the rise and the fall.
  I am what is and is not . . .
  I am the soul in all.

  Rumi

  Morning, Fall, Dust

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• Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball.

  Katarina Witt

  Men, Looks, Rubber

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• My first memories are from when I was very little, maybe three or four years old playing in my neighbourhood at home. I can picture myself with the ball at my feet from a very young age.

  Lionel Messi

  Memories, Home, Years

  Source: www.worldsoccer.com

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• We long for our father. We wear his clothes, and actually try to fill his shoes. . . . We hang on to him, begging him to teach ushow to do whatever is masculine, to throw balls or be in the woods or go see where he works. . . . We want our fathers to protect us from coming too completely under the control of our mothers. . . . We want to be seen with Dad, hanging out with men and doing men things.

  Frank Pittman

  Mother, Dad, Father

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