Ball Quotes - page 3

Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets. (Rudyard Kipling)
Roll on, thou ball, roll on Through pathless realms of space, Roll on! View quote
W. S. Gilbert
And from the whole she deduced this useful lesson, that to go previously engaged to a ball, does not necessarily increase either the dignity or enjoyment of a young lady. View quote
Jane Austen
You can't think and hit the ball at the same time. View quote
Yogi Berra
I didn't have a problem with rejection, because when you go into an audition, you're rejected already. There are hundreds of other actors. You're behind the eight ball when you go in there. View quote
Robert De Niro
Were a stranger to drop on a sudden into this world, I would show him, as a specimen of its ills, a hospital full of diseases, a prison crowded with malefactors and debtors, a field of battle strewed with carcasses, a fleet foundering in the ocean, a nation languishing under tyranny, famine, or pestilence. To turn the gay side of life to him, and give him a notion of its pleasures; whither should I conduct him? to a ball, to an opera, to court? He might justly think, that I was only showing him a diversity of distress and sorrow. View quote
David Hume
So that is marriage, Lily thought, a man and a woman looking at a girl throwing a ball. View quote
Virginia Woolf
Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself. View quote
Salman Rushdie
I take the ball, I go wide, I cross, I shoot, but when the moment beckons, I am ready to make the difference. View quote
Thierry Henry
From a spinner's perspective, in India it was never easy for me to judge where to stand: how far forward, how far back, because on Indian wickets the ball does not carry as much as abroad. That is true of slip fielding in general. I wouldn't say only for spinner – even for a fast bowler, that holds true. View quote
Rahul Dravid
A barber is by nature and inclination a sport. He can tell you at what exact hour the ball game is to begin, can foretell its issue without losing a stroke of the razor, and can explain the points of inferiority of all the players, as compared with the better men that he has personally seen elsewhere, with the nicety of a professional. (Stephen Leacock)
A ball bat is a wondrous weapon. View quote
Ty Cobb
My pitching philosophy is simple - keep the ball way from the bat. View quote
Satchel Paige
Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move. View quote
Satchel Paige
When a batter swings and I see his knees move, I can tell just what his weaknesses are then I just put the ball where I know he can't hit it. View quote
Satchel Paige
I felt really sorry for Oliver Kahn. Up to that point he had made lots of saves for the German team. Of course he could have caught the ball but it just happened. It was bad luck. In that situation, you need to be very strong psychologically to carry on. View quote
Angela Merkel
Remember this moment. If we don't convince the field marshal (Fedor von Bock) to fly to Hitler at once and have these orders (Commissar Order) canceled, the German people will be burdened with a guilt the world will not forget in a hundred years. This guilt will fall not only on Hitler, Himmler, Göring, and their comrades but on you and me, your wife and mine, your children and mine, that woman crossing the street, and those children over there playing ball. View quote
Henning von Tresckow
To know of someone here and there whom we accord with, who is living on with us, even in silence - this makes our earthly ball a peopled garden. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Money is not a motivating factor. Money doesn't thrill me or make me play better because there are benefits to being wealthy. I'm just happy with a ball at my feet. My motivation comes from playing the game I love. If I wasn't paid to be a professional footballer I would willingly play for nothing. View quote
Lionel Messi
I love the whirling of the dervishes. I love the beauty of rare innocence. You don't need no crystal ball, Don't fall for a magic wand. We humans got it all, we perform the miracles. View quote
Kate Bush
It will be easy for us once we receive the ball of yarn from Ariadne (love) and then go through all the mazes of the labyrinth (life) and kill the monster. But how many are there who plunge into life (the labyrinth) without taking that precaution? (Soren Kierkegaard)
Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose. View quote
Winston Churchill
I just keep it simple. Watch the ball and play it on merit. View quote
Sachin Tendulkar
I'm attracted to soccer's capacity for beauty. When well played, the game is a dance with a ball. View quote
Eduardo Galeano
You know you're going to get burned from time to time. It's just part of the game. So when it happens you have to pick yourself up, dust yourself off and forget about it because they're about to snap the ball again. View quote
Michael Connelly