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.
