Ball Quotes

I was the kid who always liked to take the ball down to the school even in my free time, kick it against the wall, juggle it in the front yard and so it was kind of a perpetual state of playing soccer for me.

Well, you know, it's been interesting because an album is just a snapshot of where you are at that time. Not all pictures of everybody are just in jeans and a 'T' shirt, or a ball gown. You have many different sides and this is a snapshot of where you are at that time.

All we can do is play ball. Every time we go out on the field, we do what we do in America - live in the freedom that our country affords us.

Ross Perot. I could have had a ball with him.

Most players I play with, I don't look at their swing when they're over the ball or anything like that.

Some of these guys wear beards to make them look intimidating, but they don't look so tough when they have to deliver the ball. Their abilities and their attitudes don't back up their beards.

Swing hard, in case they throw the ball where you're swinging.

If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.

Training's completely different now. It used to be a lot of running and work without the ball. Now it's all with the ball, which any player loves.

I was a volleyball player as a kid. I played volleyball all the time.

Hitting the ball was easy. Running around the bases was the tough part.

Golf... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well.

At the British Open, I had my opportunities, but the ball just didn't want to go in the hole on the back nine.

Football is a simple game based on the giving and taking of passes, of controlling the ball and of making yourself available to receive a pass. It is terribly simple.

It was not long before I was struck with the idea that base ball was just the game for a national sport for Americans.

It doesn't matter who scores the points, it's who can get the ball to the scorer.

Traveling is definitely something that your average 17-year-old doesn't get to do. One week we're in Japan, one week we're in Australia, one week we're back home going to football games.

You can't win if nobody catches the ball in the outfield. You're only as good as the team you have behind you.

Some of the money going to the rookies can now be spent on people who have proved their worth. After all, the average playing life of a pro football player is about eight years and it is only fitting that the veterans get something for their efforts.

The two-piece ball I switched to spun too much. One shot would go the distance I thought it should, then the next one would fall short, and then the next one would go long.

I once hit Quentin on the head with my ball and chain.

Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win.

Some of the onus falls on us to make ourselves available for the ball, because we need to play inside-out. That's when we're at our best.

I never played with a runner in my entire life, even in schools, because only I know where the ball is going and how hard, when I hit the ball, something my runner will never know about.

Concealing an illness is like keeping a beach ball under water.

For the parents of a Little Leaguer, a baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown into innings.

The good thing is I don't put the ball in my right hand and I'm predominantly left-handed when I'm running the ball. I just have to take care of the football and even if I have two hands that are 100 percent, I still can't turn the ball over. It's just something I have to mentally prepare for, and I think I'm strong enough to do that.

I was always the last one chosen for football games in Central Park.

My first year of pro ball I played in the Northwest league and made the all-star team, and the next year I played I led the team in hitting and was third or fifth in the league.

I think if I were a college professor, no one would say I was uncomfortable about being shy because that might be expected. But I think because of people's stereotypes, they think of a football player as someone who is very outgoing and I'm not.