Balls Quotes - Page 40

• No one can ever see the ball hit the bat because it's physically impossible to focus your eyes that way. However, when I hit the ball especially hard, I could smell the leather start to burn as it struck the wooden bat.

  Ted Williams

  Eye, Smell, Focus

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• The wallpaper with which the men of science have covered the world of reality is falling to tatters. The grand whorehouse which they have made of life requires no decoration; it is essential that only the drains function adequately. Beauty, that feline beauty that has us by the balls in America, is finished.

  Henry Miller

  Fall, Reality, Men

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• Aggression is part of the masculine design, we are hardwired for it.... Little girls do not invent games where large numbers of people die, where bloodshed is a prerequisite for having fun. Hockey, for example, was not a feminine creation. Nor was boxing. A boy wants to attack something - and so does a man, even if it's only a little white ball on a tee.

  John Eldredge

  Girl, Fun, Hockey

  John Eldredge (2011). “Wild at Heart Revised and Updated: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul”, p.10, Thomas Nelson

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• Magazines and advertising are flogging the idea that you have to keep changing things and get something new. I think that's balls - evil. But obviously that's your livelihood.

  Robin Day

  Thinking, Ideas, Evil

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• October: that's when they pay off for playing ball.

  Reggie Jackson

  Inspirational, Sports, Pay

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• As if we don't have enough volence on television. After her husband accidentally hit two spectators with golf balls during a celebrity golf tournament.

  Barbara Bush

  Husband, Golf, Two

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• And so we stayed out in the garden of the old house until we couldn't kick a ball, laughing in the gathering twilight, making the most of the good weather and all the days that were left, our little game watched only by next door's cat, and every star in the heavens.

  Tony Parsons

  Stars, Twilight, Cat

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• Playing rugby at school I once fell on a loose ball and, through ignorance and fear, held on despite a fierce pummelling. After that it took me months to convince my team-mates I was a coward.

  Peter Cook

  Team, School, Ignorance

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• The most fun I ever had in my life was hittin' a baseball. And the best sound I ever heard in my life was a ball hit with a bat. Powww!

  Ted Williams

  Baseball, Fun, Sound

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• Have you thought about His (God) handling of the gospel? God needs to get a message out to the human race, without which they will perish...foreve r. What's the plan? First, He starts with the most unlikely group ever: a couple of prostitutes, a few fishermen with no better than a second-grade education, a tax collector. Then, he passes the ball to us. Unbelievable.

  John Eldredge

  Couple, Race, Groups

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• Look at that! If you ever needed convincing that we live in the solar system, that we are on a ball of rock, orbiting around the Sun with other balls of rock, then look at that! That's the solar system coming down and grabbing you by the throat.

  Brian Cox

  Rocks, Looks, Down And

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• The Florida State League was considered the top A-league back then. You played in the spring training parks of major league teams, traveled throughout some great cities in Florida, and the pay was the best in A-ball.

  Jim Evans

  Spring, Team, Florida

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• It's all part of the same ball of wax, right? The oil companies, Israel, Halliburton.

  Michael Moore

  Oil, Israel, Politics

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• In order for this team to win the game, the quarterback has to throw the ball.

  John Madden

  Funny, Team, Winning

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• See, well ya see, the thing is, he should have caught that ball. But the ball is bigger than his hands.

  John Madden

  Funny, Nfl, Hands

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• The Europeans are all deeply tainted with prejudices, both ecclesiastical and temporal, which they can never get rid of. They are all infected with episcopal and presbyterian creeds, and confessions of faith. They all believe that great Principle which has produced this boundless universe, Newton's universe and Herschell's universe, came down to this little ball, to be spit upon by Jews. And until this awful blasphemy is got rid of, there never will be any liberal science in the world.

  John Adams

  Believe, Principles, Prejudice

  John Adams (2004). “The Portable John Adams”, p.525, Penguin

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• I was very happy and honored to create the Professor Garfield Foundation with Ball State to make reading fun.

  Jim Davis

  Fun, Reading, Foundation

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• Circulating through the children's ward and seeing terminally ill kids, heads shaved, smiling and having a ball despite the tubes and needles sticking into them, I thought: What do I have to worry about? If God takes me, at least I've lived for 35 years.

  Eric Davis

  Children, Kids, Years

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• People always ask me how I can hit the ball so far, and I say, 'I just swing.' It's the coaches who first told me I had good bat speed. I was just swinging, and I guess it was fast. I'm pretty fast at everything.

  Eric Davis

  Swings, People, Bats

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I was a good decathlete until I got with a coach that really knew how to train specifically for the event... I'd really describe it as like being a juggler; you have ten balls and you're trying to get them all in the air at the same time.

  Dan O'Brien

  Air, Trying, Events

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• The children are our future. And that is why, ultimately, we're screwed unless we do something about it. If you haven't noticed, the children who are our future are good-looking, but they aren't all that bright. As dense as they might be, they will eventually notice that adults have spent all the money, spread disease, and turned the planet into a smoky, filthy ball of death. We're raising an entire generation of dumb, pissed-off kids who know where the handguns are kept. This is not a good recipe for a happy future.

  Scott Adams

  Children, Future, Kids

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• I am the batsman and the bat, / I am the bowler and the ball, / The umpire, the pavilion cat, / The roller, pitch, and stumps, and all.

  Andrew Lang

  Cat, Umpires, Bats

  'Brahma'.

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• Language is the net that holds thought trapped within a particular culture. But if one could only strike the ball with sufficient force, with perfect timing, it would perhaps break through the netting, continue on its course, never fall to earth, but go into orbit around the world.

  David Lodge

  Fall, Break Through, Perfect

  David Lodge (2011). “The Campus Trilogy: Changing Places; Small World; Nice Work”, p.342, Penguin

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• The ball has broken 50-50 for Keegan

  David Coleman

  Football, Broken, Commentators

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• I think in most sports sometimes you need a little luck for the ball or calls to roll your way.

  Kim Smith

  Sports, Thinking, Luck

  Source: www.ptmollie.com

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