Ball Quotes

In sixth grade, my basketball team made it to the league championships. In double overtime, with three seconds left, I rebounded the ball and passed it - to the wrong team! They scored at the buzzer and we lost the game. To this day, I still have nightmares!

I was meeting the ball better. The averages don't always tell the whole truth.

I don't think anybody has that crystal ball but the president.

People like us are afraid to leave ball. What else is there to do? When baseball has been your whole life, you can't think about a future without it, so you hang on as long as you can.

I don't know if it's a movement, but the only thing new that's happening is that I think music and art and video and fashion are all kind of thrown into one big ball that's on television, and people see that all the time - you see a fusion of all those things.

Don't matter what they throw at us. Only angry people win football games.

Too many kids today are playing major league ball and don't belong there.

There is no such thing as a perfect basketball player, and I don't believe there is only one greatest player either.

But, at the moment, when I step on the pitch, when I have the ball I know it's mine. It's just a feeling.

It's fun when the ball is going in the hole and things are going right, but it's a miserable game when things aren't going well.

As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along with the ballplayers. I love a ball game.

I'm proud of the fact that I'm the only player to hit a ball completely out of Dodger Stadium.

Four times out of five the linesman gets a better view of the ball near him than the player himself.

I always keep a ball in the car. You never know.

Now there's three things you can do in a baseball game: You can win or you can lose or it can rain.

I've been shooting the ball and running a little bit. It's just going out here now and forgetting that I've been out and try to get back in and make sure I know what's going on out there on the floor and that we're just not lost as a team.

I think the thing about that was I was always willing to work; I was not the fastest or biggest player but I was determined to be the best football player I could be on the football field and I think I was able to accomplish that through hard work.

I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your legs don't move and you can't take a deep breath. You start to hit the ball about a yard wide, instead of inches.

It's not enough just being a good passer of the ball.

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

If I can hit the ball the way I want to hit it on the range, I'd rather do that than play golf. I just love the feeling of hitting good golf shots.

The slow-motion replay doesn't show how fast the ball was really travelling.

We think wireless is going to grow tremendously. Do I think people are going to watch an episode of 'Survivor' on a 2-inch television set? I doubt it. But I do think somebody's going to go to a grocery store in the middle of a football game and watch that game.

By the time you get to your ball, if you don't know what to do with it, try another sport.

My grandmother was, back when they called them 'stewardesses,' a flight attendant. I actually had a ball wearing that little uniform and making sure everything was under control.

I wanted to definitely be a musician or a good preacher or a heck of a baseball player. I couldn't play ball too good - I hurt my finger, and I stopped that. I couldn't preach, and well, all I had left was getting into the music thing.

Today's Little Leaguers, and there are millions of them each year, pick up how to hit and throw and field just by watching games on TV. By the time they're out of high school, the good ones are almost ready to play professional ball.

There have been players with Indian heritage, but there hasn't been a Native-American professional basketball player who became a regular for all sorts of social and political reasons.

The big push for me is the Olympics this year. If I'm healthy, I'm not worried about my ranking. I think I can hit the ball. It's just about my body cooperating. It's about being able to play matches in a row. Right now, I'm not sure how much I can do with that, but we'll see.

Sometimes, it's good to have a tremendous star, because everyone understands he has to get the ball.