Top 177 Balls Quotes

We, as sportsmen, we’re not used to just sitting at home and being at home all day. We want to go out. We want to play sport. We want to be in the gym, want to train; we want to hit balls, and when you’re not physically able to do that, it’s really tough. It starts playing on the mind a lot more.

My strategy is just to always compete. Even if they catch 10 balls on me, I make sure that they have to fight for every one of those. That’s worked for me.

There’s a lot going on in the Bassett-Vance household, a lot of balls in the air.

I’m going to be the one guy diving on the ground for loose balls.

People rarely speak of children; you hear of ‘cohort groups’ and ‘standard variations,’ but you don’t hear much of boys who miss their cats or 6-year-olds who have to struggle with potato balls.

In Spain, you get seven clear chances a game to receive the ball and shoot. In Italy, you get very few clear balls, and you have to fight everyone to score; that makes you improve and develop.

The teams who win things are those who, when the going gets tough, pull together, put their foot in, win tackles and second balls.

I like a women who’s got some balls, some strength. As long as I can beat her at arm wrestling, that’s fine.

I don’t really have time to watch too much, but I like ‘Family Guy’ and ‘Entourage.’ I’m also obsessed with the YouTube series ‘Balls of Steel.’ It’s hilarious.

I know my own father’s business was very dependent on the goodwill and business and trade from people in northern Mexico. We knew their families and went to their weddings and baptisms and balls and picnics, and we had a great time with them.

I was a good baseball player. I still play a couple of times a week as part of my daily workout. Just throwing the ball, running around, fielding ground balls, you know. It’s better to me than being on a treadmill or some sort of Zumba class.

I can do the little things, play defense, dive on the floor to get loose balls, things like that.

Guys that are striking out 200 times, like Joey Gallo – in 1990 he would have hit 75 home runs every year because he’s facing guys with an average velocity of 90 miles an hour, good command and O.K. breaking balls.

You know, I’m not just a jump ball guy. I’m good at jump balls. I’m really good at jump balls. I wish I got more of those, I mean, to use my size. But each year, I just try to focus on route running, and being better after the catch.

Every kicker that’s in this league has kicked a million or so balls. You just have that swing; you know what you have to do, and you go out there and do it.

I rely on balls behind.

I wasn’t brought up as a society girl to go to balls and be a debutante and marry the social set and money and go to parties. No one in my family lived like that. And I never wanted to live like that. I was brought up to believe in work. I always wanted a career. Always.

I know that I’m a natural attacking player. I love to attack. I love to play freely; I love to combine and play through balls. That’s the nature of my game.

I stay out after training and practice hitting balls from different angles just in case the chances come in a game.

Balls should be good for at least six sets, and for more for the average player. But if the rallies are long, they do not last as long as this. There is a fuzz on the surface that wears off on the hard court.

I don’t really believe in palm readers and crystal balls and tarot cards, but I respond to the need for them.

Receivers have always dropped a lot of balls.

Obviously in T20, variations are important whereas bowling lots of slower balls in a Test isn’t going to help anyone.

For my tennis, I think it’s better balls are flying because I like to play quicker, finish the point little bit quicker than other guys.

I remember borrowing my mum’s Instamatic 110 camera as a kid and doing still lifes of tennis balls and benches and thinking they were going to be something really amazing. They ended up being really bad.

It’s really tough when you have back injury because you cannot bend; you cannot react at the balls.

When I’m tired, I like to go and do drills where you catch tennis balls off walls. Different colors use different hands, and you’ve got to react to those types of things at different angles. I do all these crazy reaction-time things or reaction skills with tennis balls every morning, or at least four times a week.

It’s no secret that I’m a fan of hitting a lot of balls.

If you have this enormous talent, it’s got you by the balls, it’s a demon. You can’t be a family man and a husband and a caring person and be that animal. Dickens wasn’t that nice a guy.

The first time at age 5 and a half, when I took a racket in my hands and my father fed me some balls, I made 50 backhands in a row – didn’t miss a single one.

I look at it somewhat as a way – when you learn juggling, what you learn is how to feel with your eyes and see with your hands because you’re not looking at your hands, you’re looking at where the balls are, or you’re looking at the audience.

When I was introduced to balls, it was only in New York, now it’s spreading everywhere. I couldn’t be happier.

Most guys aren’t getting a racquet or putting balls back in off my serve most of the time.

Just try to make an impact on the game somehow whether it is on the defensive or offensive end. I think that has always been something that I have hung my hat on especially offensively. If it is not the night, then go make a play defensively and get after, dive for loose balls, create a charge, make an impact that way.

Down the mine I dreamed of cricket; I bowled imaginery balls in the dark; I sent the stumps spinning and heard them rattling in the tunnels. No mishap was going to stop me from bowling in the real game, especially this one.

Motion capture is amazing. I prefer it. You wear a ‘Power Ranger’-esque suit, you have tape balls on you, you have 60 cameras around you capturing your every movement and there’s no hair, no makeup.

Juggling is the word. I’m a bad juggler, and there are often balls dropped. There is no balance. The idea of work/life balance is a myth. There’s teetering from one end and running to the other and hoping not to fall off.

Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls.

Against Novak and Rafa, you have balls to hit, but they are so physically really tough. And Roger, he just takes position in the court. He tries to go forward all the time, go for the winners. Then you just don’t play tennis against him.

Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls. The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That’s Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that.

I am always trying to get better as a player, no matter how things are going, always trying to expand my game and look into how I can hit more areas or bowl different balls or whatever it is.

I have never needed operations, I have had niggles the same as any other golfer after putting his body through 17 years of travel and a heavy playing schedule. I think I’m actually in pretty good shape considering the amount of hours spent hitting balls and sitting on an aeroplane.

What made me so different is they would use me all over the place instead of the traditional tight end where you’re taking off right next to the left tackle or right tackle. They would split me out wide and put everybody on the other side and throw me jump balls, they’d throw slants.

I was born a footballer. Before I could walk, I was chasing balls.

You surprise yourself on some balls off the bat. You don’t think you have a chance to catch it. And then your natural ability just takes over.

It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn’t buy any balls. We really didn’t have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.

Every single day, my parents fed me balls. Eventually it turned into having a coach, and then it went to being at an academy. You know, it worked out pretty well.

The first rock record I ever bought was ‘Great Balls of Fire.’ I was real little, and I went to Atlanta to get it.

I need balls put in the box and I need chances to be created for me.

Once you pull the trigger, you’ve got to throw balls aggressively and with conviction.

My junior year, when I completed 57 percent of my balls, I was very very frustrated in myself.

I just felt that ‘Golden Balls’ was the right thing to do. I didn’t care if people thought I was a failure.

It’s good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.

I’m the world’s worst after-dinner speaker. I need pictures to respond to. I was the voice of the lottery balls once and got the sack.

I have a karaoke lounge in my house, complete with a tiki bar and hula-girl lamps and disco balls.

I saw this thing years ago, where somebody filled a gymnasium with ping-pong balls and mousetraps. And then somebody threw just one more ping-pong ball in there, and literally, in five seconds, the room was popping. And then it was dead. And that’s how it was with ‘Dallas.’ Just… ‘boom!’

When I went to WWE, the level of work I put out every night was just balls to the wall.

When I wasn’t playing with Barbie dolls, I was always playing with different kinds of balls, and my dad said, let’s try tennis.

I enjoy hitting tennis balls. I haven’t lost any of the innocent parts of tennis. I just do it in front of less people.

It’s fun to be there with the guys, to practice with them, arrange the balls, do this, do that, but when you play you can get some of this nervousness out of your system.

Politicians who wear little tennis socks with the balls at the back should not be taken seriously.

My first job was at Alfreton Town and the chairman backed the club. He wanted to win so it made the job easier. I then went to Halifax, where I turned up and there was no balls, no training ground, no players. I had the other side of it.

I put a lot of pressure on myself to do well and score more, and it will be a matter of time. Once you get back into that rhythm, you will start getting balls that drop to you in positions where it wasn’t before. I do have that feeling that it is going to come soon.

My mom was always the supplier of soccer balls, and so people were always knocking on my door, and trying to get me out so we could play.

When I was growing up, we would play a 10-over or 15-over game, and the asking-rate would always be high, and I would end up scoring 30 or 40 runs in 15 balls, so I built that mindset right from the beginning and still continue to bat in the same manner.

I ain’t no Kardashain, I ain’t Kris Jenner. We the Balls, welcome to the Ball era.

Often in Spain you’re winning 2-0, there are 15 minutes left, and it’s as good as over. You control it, and the tempo drops. In England, that doesn’t happen. They put another striker on, long balls into the area, free-kicks, corners. They push you back.

‘Balls of Fury’ was a 45-day shoot when it probably – hindsight being 20/20 – probably should’ve been a 75-day shoot with all the ping-pong action.

Maybe bring in sponge balls to learn the technique and gain that experience of actually challenging for a header.

In T20, batsmen are always going after you, so a good policy is to bowl five-six dot balls in your first two-three overs so that pressure builds on the batsman, and he plays riskier shots.

I’m focusing on being the best I can for my teammates – catching as many balls and putting in as many good blocks as I possibly can.

I first saw Arnold Palmer when I was just a kid and he came to Columbus to play in a tournament. I watched him on the driving range hit balls that day. We went on to become great friends.

You have to have a catcher because if you don’t you’re likely to have a lot of passed balls.

I am trying to be a lot more careful – and to not miss easy balls.

If we all had crystal balls, we’d all know which horse to back, wouldn’t we?

The last 12 balls you don’t have to think too much, just see the ball and hit the ball.

The more balls that I hit, it’s going to get better and better. Once I get a bit more confidence in my ball striking, that’s when we can get down to the nitty gritty parts of the game.

I try to pride myself in having really quick feet and being able to set up and throw balls in time.

We gotta play hard and leave it all out there. Dive for lose balls, take charges, just do whatever it takes to win the game.

When I started in the clubs, I had to work places where didn’t nobody else want to work. I had to do clubs where street gangs were, had to do motorcycle gangs, gay balls and things of that nature.

Yes, my life has changed in terms of the fame and the success, the number of eye balls on you all the time. I like to believe that it has not changed my ideology, the person that I am. I have people like Anna and my mom, my friends who tell me that.

I’ve realised I’ve hit enough tennis balls to last me a lifetime.

There are a number of writers who believe it is their duty to throw as many curve balls at the reader as possible. To twist and twist again. These are the Chubby Checkers of crime fiction and, while I admire the craft, I think that it can actually work against genuine suspense.

I don’t think kids should be heading real balls.

For me, if I’m just killing time, I play solitaire. I’m also guilty of playing Snood. I like games where I can shoot balls and match colors.

I’ve always hated the way Hollywood has portrayed accountants. They’re always little nerd balls, wimpy, afraid of everything. Growing up with accountants, I don’t see them that way.

I was 2 years old and already swinging bats and throwing balls.

Our fielders have to catch a lot of balls, or at least deflect them to someone who can.

The BBC is locked to the reading of the economy that is run out of Ed Miliband and Ed Balls’ office. They think if only you spend and borrow more money you can create growth everywhere.

I just love playing snooker. Every single frame is different. Not one referee ever sets the balls up exactly the same.

Love is something that is genuine, delicate and involves care, passion and attention, and is entirely different to gifts, balls, jewels and circumstance.

The album was very agressive. It kicks you right in the balls.

If you go off the Senior Bowl, that’s basically what I can do. I played H-back, I played fullback, I played tight end, I played slot receiver, I ran routes, I caught some balls, blocked, just doing that stuff.

You can put too much pressure on yourself. You can start forcing balls, maybe trying too hard. You make things too complicated.

Not only did I have to face the great Steve Davis for 10 years, Stephen Hendry came along, who attacked the balls. He was such an incredible potter with self-belief.

I was a good decathlete until I got with a coach that really knew how to train specifically for the event… I’d really describe it as like being a juggler; you have ten balls and you’re trying to get them all in the air at the same time.

All I can do is keep doing the best I can, and every opportunity I get, I’ll try to put balls in like David Beckham.

We seem to want one vehicle to carry people and soccer balls and hay bales.

When you have strikers who move a lot, and they give you the chance to play balls for them, it is really good.

When you go up for the rebound, you can’t wait for the ball to come down. You have to go get the ball at the highest point. That’s how it is in football. If you want to win those jump balls and those 50-50 balls, you’ve got to go up and get it.

What kind of woman irons her husband’s sheets? Even the clothes I wear, I just throw ’em in the dryer with some golf balls.

You know what never gets schemed or what never gets stymied? Going through your reads and completing balls.

Yes, hard is good. When I was in high school, I spent a lot of time on my knees playing with balls. I guess it was only natural that I became a catcher.

In Madrid, the conditions are always better for me. It suits my game: fast clay, high altitude, the balls fly really well.

I have matured in my shot selection but will not discard my style. I don’t believe in wasting balls.

I don’t like bowling on turning wickets because on turning wickets, most balls would just beat the batsmen. On flat wickets you can plan – when to bowl sliders, when to bowl googly.

My boys are Balls – they expect to win.

You don’t buy a Harley with your mind, you buy it with your heart and your balls.

I remember in my second year in the league, I dropped 17 balls and led the NFL in dropped passes. That made me the player I am. If I didn’t go through that transformative power of crisis, none of this would’ve probably happened for me.

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

While playing golf today I hit two good balls. I stepped on a rake.

I started by hitting balls against walls with an apple crate board.

Back in the day, before I really started to work on defense, I would just take ground balls, whatever, a couple, and then I’d say, ‘OK, now I’m going to go hit.’ Now I spend just as much time on ground balls as I do on hitting.

I had to have some balls to be Irish Catholic in South London. Most of that time I spent fighting.

My nan tells me to eat her fish balls and not drink alcohol. I’d rather have the fish balls.

When I was in high school, I was doing a fashion show, and my House Father would host fashion shows at the school. He was great at it. He saw me and said, ‘That’s my daughter.’ The rest was history! We went to New York City to rehearse and go to balls, and I was in the ballroom scene until I was 17 years old.

I created a little thing with my hands, just to create a more consistent plane to backspin balls, and obviously growing into your body helps. It’s kind of complicated, more about starting the barrel flat and then creating a movement – flat to up, I guess – going towards the pitcher.

I juggle a lot of different balls and sometimes I don’t know how I manage to keep them all up in the air, but I do!

In Valdosta, Ga., during a mini-tour event, a player named James Black bet me $20 he could put five golf balls in his mouth and then close his mouth all the way. I tried it but could get only two in there.

Balls are to men what purses are to women.

What you need, above all else, is a love for your subject, whatever it is. You’ve got to be so deeply in love with your subject that when curve balls are thrown, when hurdles are put in place, you’ve got the energy to overcome them.

I threw a lot of balls and walked a lot of batters. Not something I’m proud of, but something I learned from.

I’m not a big golfer, but I love to go get a bucket of balls and just smack the balls around. That’s my type of game. When I do play, it’s mostly in charity tournaments.

For all the fun, don’t forget: I always knew when to put my golf balls down and practice.

I’ve tried my very best to keep all the balls in the air and be home.

Gleason used to rack balls for me when he was a kid in Brooklyn and in Long Island.

At the end of your career, you’re going to look back at the match balls and be buzzing about them.

He might not be very tall, but he’s very useful. Kante wins balls, has great transition play, can be found everywhere, and always has solutions.

I did my time with a mobile quarterback and that was fun. It was fun, it got me more opportunities for more balls on scramble rules and stuff like that. But in this league, it’s tough to scramble.

I played a little football when I was really young, but I didn’t start until my junior year. My cousin, who was a big influence in my athletic career over time, said you should go out for receiver. I said let’s give it a shot. I went out and played a little and caught a couple balls over a couple dudes heads.

As a kid, I might have been psycho, I guess, but I used to throw golf balls in the trees and try and somehow make par from them. I thought that was fun.

I’m only seeing tennis balls these days. And maybe the occasional fashion sketch.

Everybody drops balls every once in awhile. I just can’t let it happen.

You know, I still love the innocent parts of the game. I love hitting tennis balls. I love seeing the young guys do well. I’ll still have a lot of friends to watch. I’ll miss the relationships probably the most. As time passes, I’ll probably miss the tennis more.

I might have a different understanding of the term ‘football star.’ If I shoot a few balls after training, it’s perfectly normal that I collect them afterwards.

Mum’s home food was comfy, exquisite and she was also capable of the most wonderful gourmet food. She’d mix the rice and dal with stuff and roll these easy-to-pick-up extra-softened little balls of rice.

Especially with athletic pubalgia and the patellar tendonitis – I used to bowl six balls and then I used to be gasping for breath. And there would be pain all over the place.

As Indian women, we are always balancing work, life, home, etc. It’s important to know that while juggling rubber balls and glass balls, the former may bounce back when you miss, but the glass balls will crack if you let them fall. So prioritise, prioritise, prioritise.

In red ball cricket, with the field placements, you can look around, take your time, because you have five days to play, whereas in limited overs cricket, you have limited number of balls to play and score.

Nadal is just more at home on clay. It looks like he feels safer on clay courts. He can get to a few more balls, he can play a bit further behind the baseline when he defends, and he’s also able to get the ball to bounce higher. It’s unbelievable.

You never know what curve balls life is going to throw you and there’s no way I can predict anything or make any assumptions about what the rest of my life is going to be like.

My doctor asked me how many golf balls I had hit in my career. I’m lying there in bed calculating somewhere between four and five million golf balls I had hit to do that on my body.

You’re talking about defense and calling games and blocking balls, I’m going to be right there with anybody.

The ‘Reno’ movie is very solid. ‘Balls of Fury’ I’m pretty disappointed in – I blame myself. People hate both of those movies equally.

In high school, AAU, even prep school, I didn’t really know how to play basketball. It was kind of like, ‘Let’s throw the balls out, go get buckets, just score, and go play.’

T20 is such a format that finishes quickly, and you only have four overs. If there are three bad balls in one over, you will go for runs, and your whole analysis suffers. The team is on back foot because of three balls. So each and every ball becomes very important. It makes the bowler think.

Im going to get hit again in my career, if you face balls and hopefully a lot of balls, its just bound to happen.

It’s especially gratifying to have done a film like ‘Eight Men Out’ because it’s hard not to have fun when there are so many bats and balls around.

You know, when I was a young boy I used to play baseball in my back yard or in the street with my brothers or the neighborhood kids. We used broken bats and plastic golf balls and played for hours and hours.

My goal is I want to create the 20-20-20 club: 20 sacks, 20 tackles for loss, 20 batted balls.

We practice throughout the week throwing jump balls, throwing fades, throwing all these little things. But when the game comes, you never know what’s going to come up.

I put a charge into a lot of balls. Still can.

Everyone thinks I’m this jock of a woman, but I didn’t play any sports. I didn’t even let my kids play baseball because I was afraid they were going to get hit by balls.

You have to learn how to deal with curve balls.

To me, hitting the ball in the air means hitting a line drive, and I hit far more balls in the air.

I’m happy when I’m juggling, but I feel like I’ve gone from, like, 3 balls to 10 bowling balls. But, that’s a good problem. I don’t really have a complaint about that.

There’s so much in favor of batsmen these days. Fields are small, two new balls, powerplays, bats have got bigger than they used to be, the list can go on.

Of course my first goal is to save the balls. This is obviously the most important thing as a goalkeeper.

It takes some balls to live life to the fullest.

When you’re going good or bad, those balls that trickle through the hole or fall in between people, that mentally boosts how you feel, how you’re playing.

I’ve had a lot of things thrown at me. A lot of coins that had been sharpened, billiard balls, and I had a dart thrown at my back at Burnley. And potatoes with razor blades.

There are so many images pushed at women and so many ideas of what you’re supposed to be. I think there’s too much of this superwoman, this woman with a bottom like two billiard balls. There’s no real celebration of just being a person.

Coming out of university, one of my obsessions was that in the novels I was reading, they seemed to be portraying a world that had a social fabric. People knew each other in ‘War and Peace.’ They went to all the same balls. These were societies with tightly wound, woven, social textures.

With Jorginho it depends what type of football you want to play. If you want to play possession where you have the ball all the time and you play a lot of passes, there are not many as good as him around. If you ask Jorginho to cover 50 metres of pitch in width and get all the balls back, it’s going to be difficult.

I seem to get a general reaction at just, like, ‘Oh! A mustache!’ but mostly people are fine with it. But I don’t actually do it for the ladies. It’s more a guy thing, an appreciation. All the dudes want to do it, but they don’t have the balls to do it, so they just give me the nod.

It’s not fun when you’re losing, but it’s fun when your teammates are diving for loose balls and you’re helping them up and clapping for each other.

I’ve kicked a lot of balls over the years.

If need be, I’ll collect stray balls during the training sessions, just to get a chance to play with the likes of Luka Modric and Niko Kranjcar.

For me, I need to bowl lots of overs in order to start getting back into form – much like a batsman needs to hit a lot of balls.

I don’t want it to be comfortable for players to step in, stroll about and walk away with three points. But there won’t be any old-school flat balls, cold tea or wet floors.

Tennis was always there for me, which was lucky. I would go play baseball, basketball, football, hang with my brother, do whatever, and at the end of the day I’d come back and say, ‘Hey, Mom, would you hit 15 minutes worth of balls with me?’

I think you can only prepare yourself as much as you can, but no matter what, there will be curve balls. I had no idea I’d be taking a flight, landing, and heading straight to a radio station. I thought I might have time to curl my hair, have something to eat. No! You go right into things.

In T20, even when you are in form and you feel like you are making good contributions, you are going to only face 30 or maximum 40 balls in the position where I bat in the middle order.

Bits and pieces flung into the universe, sticking in the sky like cotton balls on a jet black velcro surface.

I was always the minibus driver. I was always the one carrying the balls and the cones.

I wasn’t into any other toys. I always liked to play with balls and with a racket.

After 3 years, I left the army at the ripe old age of 20, but I’d like to think some of the skills are still with me. I’m great at physical movement; I can still remember Morse code, and perhaps most importantly, I can fold my socks up into little balls with smiley faces.