Balls Quotes - Page 5

• I never want to quit playing ball, They'll have to cut this uniform off me to get me out of it

  Roy Campanella

  Cutting, Want, Uniforms

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• When I dunk, I put something on it. I want the ball to hit the floor before I do.

  Darryl Dawkins

  Basketball, Sports, Hitting

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• They throw the ball, I hit it. They hit the ball, I catch it.

  Willie Mays

  Sports, Baseball, African American

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• Soccer is a game for 22 people that run around, play the ball, and one referee who makes a slew of mistakes, and in the end Germany always wins.

  Gary Lineker

  Funny, Soccer, Running

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• I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it.

  Sandy Koufax

  Sports, Baseball, Athlete

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• I had to have some balls to be Irish Catholic in South London. Most of that time I spent fighting.

  Pierce Brosnan

  Fighting, Catholic, London

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• It's just a matter of hitting the ball where I want to hit it and hopefully making some putts.

  Bernhard Langer

  Sports, Hitting, Want

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• They have so fundamentally flawed techniques it's ridiculous. They shoot the ball flat. They all stand upright, there's just so many things they do incorrectly.

  Rick Barry

  Technique, Ridiculous, Flaws

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• I've taken up golf in the past five or six years, and most of the time there aren't too many people out there that can drive a ball further than I can.

  Bo Jackson

  Sports, Taken, Golf

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• Your job is to umpire for the ball and not the player.

  Bill Klem

  Jobs, Player, Umpires

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• You know, when I was a young boy I used to play baseball in my back yard or in the street with my brothers or the neighborhood kids. We used broken bats and plastic golf balls and played for hours and hours.

  Robin Yount

  Sports, Baseball, Brother

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• Jazz is all about improvisation and it's about the moment in time, doing it this way now, and you'll never do it this way twice. I've studied the masters. Why would I want to play ball after the guys who sit on a bench? I want to play like Michael Jordan.

  Brian McKnight

  Play, Guy, Jazz Improvisation

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• The reason people like to watch ball games is because they don't really know exactly what's going to happen from moment to moment. That's why you watch the entire thing

  Isaac Mizrahi

  Games, People, Watches

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• I don't know if he throws a spitball but he sure spits on the ball.

  Casey Stengel

  Baseball, Spit, Knows

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• A handball is when your hand touches the ball.

  Gary Lineker

  Hands, Handball

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• Sometimes you have to put your balls on the line.

  Warren Gatland

  Lines, Sometimes

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• A charity ball is like a dance except it's tax deductible.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Charity, Taxes

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.132, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The tennis ball doesn't know how old I am. The ball doesn't know if I'm a man or a woman or if I come from a communist country or not. Sport has always broken down these barriers.

  Martina Navratilova

  Sports, Country, Men

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• When you control the ball you control the score

  Pele

  Score

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• The ball was coming down like a butterfly with sore feet.

  Jamie Redknapp

  Football, Butterfly, Feet

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• I'm probably not going to get married unless I live with somebody for 10 or 20 years.  But these people, Romeo and Juliet, took a chance and they did it.  We don't have the balls that Romeo did.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Years, People, Engagement

  "Baz Luhrmann's Romeo and Juliet: On set with Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes" by Rebecca Ascher-Walsh, ew.com. September 06, 1996.

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• I appreciate this moment in time...ball players and actors be knowing my rhymes

  Common

  Appreciation, Player, Rapper

  Song: The 6th Sense, Album: Like Water For Chocolate, 2000

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• When you can throw 97 miles an hour and put the ball over the plate anytime you want, it's fun.

  Randy Johnson

  Fun, Want, Hours

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• I wake up every morning and I feel like I'm juggling glass balls. I live in Los Angeles, my business is run out of London, and most evenings I'm cuddled up in front of Skype, in my dressing gown, speaking with my studio in London. I travel a lot, my team travel a lot, but I wouldn't have it any other way.

  Victoria Beckham

  Running, Travel, Morning

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• My mind started wandering. I started playing carefully, instead of playing the way that had gotten me to that point. I had to force myself to keep driving the ball.

  Tracy Austin

  Ukulele, Mind, Way

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