Top 470 Ball Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Ball Quotes from famous people such as Carrie Ann Inaba, Charles Perrault, Ani DiFranco, Bryn Terfel, Salman Rushdie, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

During the first couple of years of 'Dancing with the S

During the first couple of years of ‘Dancing with the Stars,’ I would go to Jack in the Box in my ball gown after the shows and get the Taco Nachos with cheese as my reward.
Carrie Ann Inaba
The next day the two sisters went to the ball, and so did Cinderella, but dressed more magnificently than before. The King’s son was always by her side, and his pretty speeches to her never ceased.
Charles Perrault
I’ve been saying the Occupy Movement has got the ball rolling, and now we need to take the fight to the great indoors!
Ani DiFranco
For three years, the ‘Meistersinger’ score was a ball and chain to me. It went with me to every city and concert hall.
Bryn Terfel
Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
Salman Rushdie
My idea of managing is giving the ball to Tom Seaver and sitting down and watching him work.
Sparky Anderson
I broke my nose in gym when a ball hit me. I took a girl to her debutante ball the next week wearing a tux and a big, honking bandage. Not the romantic night she had in mind.
Wentworth Miller
Every night is different, a ball of thread that unrolls differently.
Jane Siberry
I get 0.5 seconds to react to a ball, sometimes even less than that. I can’t be thinking of what XYZ has said about me. I need to surrender myself to my natural instincts. My subconscious mind knows exactly what to do. It is trained to react. At home, my family doesn’t discuss media coverage.
Sachin Tendulkar
It’s tough at slip. The ball doesn’t come to you very often. So from that perspective, I enjoy keeping more – you’re in the game the whole time.
AB de Villiers
I don’t think anybody has that crystal ball but the president.
Jay Alan Sekulow
In this big ball of people, I’m just one grain of sand on this beach.
Aurora
I don’t know how many calories an average chess player burns per game, but it often exceeds that of a player in ball games. It is not only the chess as such: You need to be fit and undergo complicated preparation.
Viswanathan Anand
My game is suited to grass because I’m really aggressive on the court. I have a big serve, I’m quick, I hit the ball hard, and I go to net so I have everything a player needs to do well on grass.
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga
I just try to play as hard as I can every possession. If you’re aware and you’re high-energy, the ball will eventually bounce your way and you’ll be able to make plays.
Jeremy Lin
I never had only one job. I was either playing ball or writing or doing TV or modeling.
Gabrielle Reece
Of course, in pro ball, they never hit the quarterback in practice.
Joe Namath
Fix your eye on the ball from the moment the pitcher holds it in his glove. Follow it as he throws to the plate and stay with it until the play is completed. Action takes place only where the ball goes.
Bill Klem
In 1986, we gave it our best shot but we didn’t get the run of the ball.
Michel Patini
When I throw a ground ball, I expect it to be an out, maybe two.
Warren Spahn
The man with the ball is responsible for what happens to the ball.
Branch Rickey
Women’s tennis? I think it stinks. They hit the ball back and forth, have a lot of nice volleys, and you can see some pretty legs. But it’s night and day compared to men’s tennis.
Bobby Riggs
Since Nandita Das comes from a different school of acting, I had to behave in a particular manner. Then with the boys – Rahul Dev, Purab Kohli and Akaash Saigal – it was another ball game.
Uday Chopra
Maybe if I’d not been able to kick a ball it would have been different, but I doubt it because all my mates are decent blokes now, just normal fellas with families.
Robbie Fowler
But I don’t really care for directors flaring up and trying to humble some actor, which they would do to try and make an example out of them so everybody else would stay on the ball – and David wasn’t anything like that.
Richard Farnsworth
They thought that athletes that worked out with my system wouldn’t be able to throw a ball because they’d be too muscle bound. Those are the misconceptions I had to go through for about 40 years.
Jack LaLanne
Sometimes in New York, you’re walking down the street and you realize there’s a girl walking in front of you whose thighs you could hit a golf ball through, and maybe that makes you depressed.
Sloane Crosley
I always loved hitting a low fade to a back-right pin with the wind howling from the right. Not many guys could get it close in that situation, because they kept it low by just putting the ball back in their stance. You see, playing the ball back turns you into a one-trick pony – you can only hit hooks.
Lee Trevino
My sister Kim is like Lucille Ball. She’s magical in terms of her performance and her writing.
Marlon Wayans
Since a month, two months ago, you know, I’ve started hitting the ball well. I’m playing some really good tennis. That really helps. I sort of have to motivate myself to get pumped up. It really helps my game a lot.
Stefan Edberg
The players have competed on the level the last 25 or 30 years are always going to be the players that compete at a high level. These guys practice hard, they work on their game, they still hit the ball extremely well.
Greg Norman
Light and funny has a more compelling quality when you'

Light and funny has a more compelling quality when you’re younger. But I haven’t abandoned the genre: I love falling down; I love Lucille Ball. It’s just that a lot of those stories revolve around problems that I can’t convincingly portray at this age.
Julia Roberts
I’m a guy that people look at me not only as a guy that hit the ball.
David Ortiz
They have so fundamentally flawed techniques it’s ridiculous. They shoot the ball flat. They all stand upright, there’s just so many things they do incorrectly.
Rick Barry
I didn’t know anything about acting, I didn’t know anything about theater, but I was just an exceptional student at high school. I wanted to play ball; I’m going after a basketball scholarship and be a doctor. I got injured and my marks began to drop.
Louis Gossett, Jr.
I’m proud of the fact that I’m the only player to hit a ball completely out of Dodger Stadium.
Willie Stargell
We need to let the referee’s sole thing be to protect the quarterback and get those late hits out of there. They even have a stat on television that says ‘knockdowns.’ Knockdowns means that you knock him down after he throws the ball. The assumption is, if it’s legal, we’ll make excuses for them.
John Madden
My parents are divorced, but they have and always are there for me. They’ve never missed a ball game or anything else I’ve done, and we’ve always been so close.
Eric Winter
I just kick the ball against the cement wall and work on my touches and juggling.
Lindsey Horan
The only thing I insist that everybody do is there has to be a basketball court in every game I do, and – with one exception, I let them get away with it once – you can actually shoot a ball through the basket in every game I’ve made.
Warren Spector
You won’t understand me unless you understand that I am an odd ball.
Sloan Wilson
Do you agree that when there’s tension and an obsession to want to hit the ball is when you hit it worst? You have to be loose.
Enrique Pena Nieto
I think the running game is very important to every offense. Being balanced is extremely important. There’s times where you have to throw the ball. You could be down late in the game, you need to come back; you have to be able to pass it when they know you’re passing it.
Tom Brady
When I get a chance to power jump off both legs, I can lean, twist, change directions and decide whether to dunk the ball or pass it to an open man. In other words, I may be committed to the air, but I still have some control over it.
Julius Erving
Anytime the coach gives you the ball and some encouragement, you get a sense of freedom.
B. J. Armstrong
Sport doesn’t know barriers, really. You are judged on your performance… how far you can jump, how fast you can run, how well you can hit a tennis ball.
Martina Navratilova
I like to study everything: the way to be dangerous when you are attacking; what the players should do when you don’t have the ball; where they should be. The tactics you tell the players to follow come from all this study.
Antonio Conte
When you play soccer, most of the time you got to get the ball moving, but once you get into that attacking third you gotta’ be creative, you gotta’ let your talent take over.
Freddy Adu
I wasn’t a bad kid. I was a good kid. But I had gotten in a lot of fights ’cause in the neighborhood I grew up in, that wasn’t equated with bad behavior almost. I mean, we’d fought like it was another game. ‘You wanna play stick ball today?’ ‘Nah, let’s go fight.’
Tony Danza
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.
Sachin Tendulkar
How to hit home runs: I swing as hard as I can, and I try to swing right through the ball.
George Herman
I wish they’d shut the gates, and let us play ball with no press and no fans.
Richie Allen
It’s about winning the ball, making this step or making the right decision. If you make all of these steps then wins, a final position in the table will come on its own.
Ralph Hasenhuttl
He hits the ball a long way and he knows how to win.
Gary McCord
Basketball for me has always been a matter of rhythm – what you do bouncing the ball, how you bounce the ball, how you run, how you receive the ball to be in rhythm.
Earl Monroe
‘We need a guy who plays dodge ball and thinks he’s a pirate – get me Alan Tudyk on the phone!’ Those are the jobs I do.
Alan Tudyk
You can’t sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You’ve got to throw the ball over the damn plate and five the other man his chance. That’s why baseball is the greatest game of them all.
Earl Weaver
If I would be happy, I would be a very bad ball player. With me, when I get mad, it puts energy in my body.
Roberto Clemente