Ball Quotes

I had no experience with broadcasting basketball games, so I took a tape recorder and went to a playground where there was a summer league, and I stood up in the top of the stands and I called the game.

My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories.

When I lose the sense of motivation and the sense to prove something as a basketball player, it's time for me to move away from the game.

I looked for the same pitch my whole career, a breaking ball. All of the time. I never worried about the fastball. They couldn't throw it past me, none of them.

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.

President Obama could keep a big map with push pins on it to keep track of how many countries hate us, and when we get down to only half, let's have a ball. I'll blow up the balloons myself.

When I throw a ground ball, I expect it to be an out, maybe two.

I was not successful as a ball player, as it was a game of skill.

It was a horrible, terrible, atrocious, offensive football game.

I started in for the ball but I just couldn't get it. I should have caught it because I was used to catching everything on the sandlots. But they hit the ball a lot harder in the major leagues and I just couldn't reach the ball this time.

I did everything I could to win every time I was handed the ball.

There were a couple of years when I wanted to be a football player, but I really always wanted to be a singer.

Taking in a baseball game on TV is also a big treat.

By that time I was thinking a little about pro ball and hopeful that someone would draft me.

The key thing with any football player is, what can he do when he gets on the field.

The type of athletes we draft still need types of versatility on the defense side of the ball, run the offense. You should still be concerned on the offense side of the ball.

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.