Balls Quotations | Page 4

Someone once told me that God figured that I was a pretty good juggler. I could keep a lot of balls in the air at one time. So He said, "Let's see if he can juggle another one."

Sometimes you gotta work a little, so you can ball a lot.

I have a belief that life isn't about balance, because balance is perfection Rather, it's about catching the ball before it hits the floor.

In this life all that I have is my word and my balls and I do not break them for nobody.

I'm a bit of a shill for the Clinton Administration, which has its perks. I'm invited to all the inaugural balls.

Through the ball we are all the same. We just have different ways of getting it there.

The fellow who can pay only twenty-five cents to see a ball game always will be just as welcome at Comiskey Park as the box seat holder.

If a guy drew a charge on me, I tried to kick him in the balls.

The meek may inherit the earth, but they wont get the ball from me.

Don't be afraid to hit the ball.

I've had seven balls of light come off a UFO...explain to me telepathically we are all one and there's no such thing as death.

When he hit it, I had a good break on it. It seemed like one of those balls that kept going downward as I got closer, and then I was caught. I thought I'd have a chance to dive and catch it, but then as I did that, it pushed away from me.

That kind of ball is meat and two drink for the Palace defence.

Fence straddlers have no balls. In compensation, however, they enjoy a comfortable seat and can retreat swiftly, when danger threatens, to either side of the fence. There is something to be said for every position.

You only hit a straight ball by accident. The ball is going to move right or left every time you hit it, so you had better make it go one way or the other.

The pitcher wound up and he flang the ball at the batter. The batter swang and missed. The pitcher flang the ball again and this time the batter connected. He hit a high fly right to the center fielder. The center fielder was all set to catch the ball, but at the last minute his eyes were blound by the sun and he dropped it.

As the possibility of a relationship had faded, Emma had endeavored to harden herself to Dexter's indifference and these days a remark like this caused no more pain than, say, a tennis ball thrown sharply at the back of her head.

We need to be getting loose balls and long rebounds and our guards haven't taken it upon themselves to be that aggressive. The ruggedness you need for guards...as a whole, we don't have it yet.

When you bring a guy in like Santana, you have to make sure he's taken care of and he's going to get the number of catches and balls that a guy that they brought in deserves, ... For him it was good and for me to come back to the situation I'm in, I'm not a featured guy, but I'm a piece of the puzzle in this offence and there's opportunity for me to make plays and help this team win.

There are times he'd rather not play (a round). He'll go out and hit 300 balls and putt for two hours.

We made a mistake on the first play, and when you score on the first play you get momentum going. There's no doubt about that. They did a nice job, there's no question about that. We got some things to work on. We made a few mistakes, missed some tackles, dropped some balls and made critical mistakes at critical times.

We made a lot of unforced errors on balls that we normally would play right. We've had a difficult time passing the ball this year so we're going to work on that in practice.

We're excited. If you're a receiver, you're getting more balls, so you feel pretty good about it.

Luckily for us we just got more balls in the air than they did. These guys can do enough damage on their own but I guess if I can help out the cause, I'll keep doing it. If the wind is blowing out, we have a team that can put up some runs. That gives confidence to the starting pitching.

Luckily for us, we just got more balls in the air than they did.

Lew is fine wherever you put him. He's going to play like Lew, he's going to hustle, run balls out and hopefully some of his balls will fall in. Last year he wasn't as lucky as he had been the year before. A lot of times hits will go down to being lucky, and this past year he wasn't quite as lucky.

Lowe was tough on us today. He is coming off some well-pitched games, and we didn't hit that many balls hard early. A sinkerballer gets groundballs, and that's what he has been able to do against us.

Louisville was bigger and more physical than us. Jon brings that for us now. Even if he doesn't get the rebounds, he's diving for balls and keeping other guys from getting them. He makes Mike and the rest of us play harder.

Last year was totally opposite. My numbers - it's just one of those years. I don't know if the wind was blowing in or it was a little cold or the balls were flying out. If I did it every year, there would be something to it. But last year was totally opposite, so I have no clue what the difference is.

Last year when people slowed down our run, we had a young quarterback and we dropped balls and we made mistakes, ... There's going to be probably nine or 10 guys in the box. So then we have to be willing to throw the football.

Second base has been a problem spot for us. Chase did a good job and caught a couple of balls there that we hadn't been getting to in games. Hannah played real well at short. No errors at all. You get no errors and you are going to win most of your games.

Second and third with nobody out and a three-run lead, you want to trade some outs for some runs there. I was able to get three ground balls and get out of it and secure the win. It doesn't look pretty in the box score, but I think I did my job.

She tried to mix it up a little at the end of the first set and I knew it would be physically harder. Mentally, I told myself it doesn't matter how many balls it takes, you're going to do everything possible to get one more ball back.

She was hitting balls very deep. I tried to go to the net, which is my game, but I just couldn't do that.

She's probably the best defending player out there at the moment, ... She's very fit. She just has this incredible touch with her hands, especially with her slice. I mean, she can just keep getting those balls back.

She's got a lot of rise balls and people were swinging at them. I was trying to lay off them.

She's given me some problems in the past. In Australia, I was really struggling to control the points, ... Here today, I felt like even some of the games I lost, I was dictating the points, hitting the ball well, not letting her take the balls early and step in.

Shafer was pretty darn good today. I've never seen more balls hit off the handle in all of my life. If we were using wooden bats, they'd be shattered all over the field.

On a cloth untrue / With a twisted cue, / And elliptical billiard balls.

Oh yeah. I knew. I got a little careless in the sixth with the catcher there, throwing him a bunch of breaking balls in a row. That's why it's so hard to do it. I wasn't concerned about it. I wanted to win the game, and we did.

Oh, yeah. I caught more balls in practice than I caught in Baltimore in a season. It's a great feeling to be here in Minnesota. It's a great place; great fans; great offense; great coaching staff. All around, it's a great place.

Oh, yeah, he made those great plays. What would have been if those balls got through?

Some balls bounced our way. Let's face it, Rutgers is a great team. They won 16 league games in a row. If we played them 10 times, they would win nine. I think they overlooked us a little bit thinking about playing Connecticut in the final. But Rutgers won't be in the final. I don't know if this all has hit me yet.

Shoot 25 balls in one minute? It's impossible for me. It's not my game. I know that.

Signing golf balls while you're walking is tough. That's a killer. If I'm trying to get somewhere, I'll autograph it, but it's going to look like a 2-year-old signed it.

She gets to balls that a lot of times other athletes don't because her feet are in the right position at the right time. She's hitting the ball with a lot more power and reading the ball a lot better off the pitcher's hand. I'm happy for her.

She can flat out run balls down out there.

She did a great job today. We're definitely very proud of what she was able to do in the goal cage. She had some good ground balls and saves, but I think you gotta bring it for each game and we'll see how it goes from there.

She did a great job. She forced them to hit grounders and fly balls. She's a senior and that's what I expect out of her.

She has done an amazing job back there, but the unfortunate thing is she's short. There are some balls up in the air that she can't get and that is when we need somebody get back there to help her.

She has a lot of speed and she tracks balls well.

She didn't really give me many chances. I just didn't get many opportunities to really do too much with balls. She doesn't make many errors, which she probably still did in Tokyo. Against her, you don't get away with much.

She bounced (off the ground). (And) she almost beat out the two ground balls to second base.

Six guys, three bedrooms. If you want to see how good you can become, you have to go somewhere you can play year-round. We hit balls in a dome in college. That's not the best way to develop your game.

She played very well. She was sending balls to our forwards all night long.

She pitched a really good game. We hit a lot of balls hard, but right at them. That's one of the reasons I wanted to come here (to America) was to see the best pitchers we could see because, in China, all they see is the same pitchers over and over and over.

She really doesn't get enough credit. She's the one who's setting us up with assists and getting the balls to us. She's the one hitting three-pointers.

She is starting to manage the game really well. Lindley is hitting more balls than she ever has in her career and she is playing with confidence. She should be playing with confidence because she is healthy and working hard every day.

She made a lot of things happen. She got her hands on a lot of balls and made some good passes.

She is a powerful girl. She is deeper in the forehand. I tried not to give her too many opportunities and gave balls on her backhand. I was successful with my strategy.

She hit the ball well. She pulled a couple balls and I was excited to see that. Usually she hits it hard, but she hits it late, hitting it to right field. She pulled the ball hard a couple times.

Most of the time, if there was an error in (St. Joseph's) passing, we were chasing down those balls. I told the girls if we keep saving balls and chasing them down, we will beat them.

Most of us are umpires at heart; we like to call balls and strikes on somebody else.

Mike runs good routes, and he's always making the big play, ... He pulled down a few high balls I threw last week, and made it look like nothing. I've played with some good receivers at UCLA, but Mike is in a class all by himself. He's a real classy, quiet Oregon guy. He just takes care of business.

Maybe you just want to be daring and put in a few bowling balls instead of traditional gazing globes.

One evening, cannon balls dropped on the floor,

My dad would just feed me balls before that. I kept pushing my parents to let me play in tournaments, but they didn't want me to play too early. They wanted me to focus on technique first.

My balls were moving, I had life on the fastball, and I was jamming them pretty much for most of the night. A couple of pitches they took advantage of, and that wasn't even the home runs. Those were just singles.

Moorehead pitched good and did a good job of keeping them off balance. He got some double play balls for us to get out of some jams.

Monday's going to be a lot different story, ... Kim's not going to let me do that so easily and will get more balls back and will really press me a lot more than I've pressed so far.

Maybe it was control in the strike zone today, ... I left a lot of balls over the plate and they did what you are supposed to do with balls over the plate. I didn't execute the pitches the way I needed to, and they didn't let me off the hook.

Maybe because I've hit a million balls? And because I've been out there forever, and maybe because I'm dedicated and want it more.

Obviously tonight I wasn't as sharp and let the team down a little bit. Pat Noonan played me two very good balls and unfortunately I just finished one of them.

Obviously, there is some apprehension there because they've never umpired at the professional level. There are some rule differences, but they have to call balls and strikes and call guys out that are out. We just have to go with what we got.

People will fall in love with Jeff Adrien. All he does is come to work, put the hard hat on, just keep getting balls off the glass. Hopefully, as we move up in caliber and size, he's still able to do that.

Phase two has begun. I say to Silvio 'go on like that'. He really has balls.

Plenty of gun opponents have pointed out the obvious: that the Founding Fathers could never have envisioned the kinds of 'arms' that exist today - Washington, Jefferson, and the rest had never even seen a bullet. Musket balls for guns that required constant reloading were the 'arms' of the day.

(Post Chad Beecroft) and (Brenner) were phenomenal. They just did the extra things, got the loose balls, came away with the tips. They deserve a lot of credit.

My swing feels good. Last night (Friday), I missed a home run by just a couple of feet. And the game before that, I hit a couple of balls hard. I don't feel I'm in a slump. I still feel every time I'm out there that I'm going to hit a home run.

Nix looks healthy. He's swinging the bat real good, this is the best I've seen him in a long time. Hopefully we can carry this through into the games. His lower half is a lot better and he's able to square up balls better.

On the second set, I felt like I was playing well and hitting the ball well, ... First set, I just don't think either of us played all that well. ... But as the match went on, I felt like I was getting much better rhythm and on top of the balls and being a little bit more consistent with my shot.

One of the guys was giving soccer balls to the Iraqi kids and bam - a bomb blew up. All of the guys' families were there, and some of the mothers, you could see the sadness in their eyes. It just makes you appreciate what those guys are doing over there, it really makes you think.

I was spoiled by some of the guys I had in the past, like Robby Thompson and Jeff Kent. I know the importance of that infield defense. There's more balls on the ground than in the air. Consequently, you have to play 'D' on the field.

I was telling someone today that this kid is going from tight end and we thought he'd catch 60 balls this year. Last year, he was playing center and now he's our quarterback. He's a great athlete. He's a great kid. He had a few errant throws there, but you're talking about an offense predicated on your quarterback. Mike has done a great job. He's only had four days to get ready.

I guess it might have been questionable about my throwing, my deep ball. I hit all my deep balls on point today.

I guess I just have to hit the ball somewhere else. I had an opportunity hit some balls to score some runners tonight and I didn't do the job.

I got those pretty good. It's been a long time since I've hit balls like that. The ball doesn't usually carry here that well.

I got my fingertips on it. I had a tough time picking up those low balls today.

I got hit a with a few balls and instead of deflecting out, they deflected in. It was sort of the way the day went.

If we can field ground balls and play solid on defense, I think we'll have a good chance to win every game.

I don't have that overpowering pitch. I've got to stay low in the (strike) zone and get ground balls and weak fly balls.

I don't have one negative thought about them the whole weekend. We played hard. We played well. It was two very, very good teams. Certainly this game today, 3-2, could have gone either way. We hit a lot of balls on the barrel today. We play this well most every weekend, we're going to win at least two if not all three.

I didn't want to feed him fastballs. I threw him some breaking balls off the plate.

I didn't like it that our guys threw so many balls. They were all throwing strikes pitching in the bullpen. It is amazing what happens when you put a hitter at the plate.

I don't give credit to pitchers. He's going to have to show it every time. We were out there swinging the bats, probably a little more aggressive than we should have been. We swung at some balls out of the zone. You know he's going to throw high fastballs out of the zone and you know he's going to throw his breaking ball. You've got to be patient.

I don't feel that my whole game was bad. Those two plays I gave up were deep balls. They weren't touchdowns but they were long plays and they created momentum shifts. I mean, my body felt good, I was moving well. On the first one they just ran a great route for the defense we were in. Basically, that's what happened.

I couldn't really judge him because of the shadows. He was hitting his spots and didn't leave any balls out over the plate. That was the first time I faced him, and he's got good stuff with a bright future.

I couldn't really hit balls for a month at least due to my ankle. You come back, try to get ready in a hurry and you force it and things just don't respond if you try to do it too soon.

I'd be lying if I told you I wasn't feeling the pressure. I missed a couple of balls early doors but after that it went really well.

I am a hands guy, but I can catch it with my body. I am sure it will change my catching philosophy just a little bit down the field. But when I get back I'll practice so I'll have to figure out which balls to catch with my body and which to catch with my hands when I am wearing (the cast).