Top 100 Ball Quotes
#1. The metaphor I've used is ... somebody's going to push my family off a cliff pretty soon, and I won't be there to catch them. And that breaks my heart. But I have some time to sew some nets to cushion the fall. So, I can curl up in a ball and cry, or I can get to work on the nets.
Randy Pausch
#2. If anything, global response to the Rising only confirmed something that many Australians had quietly believed for quite some time: If forced to live in Australia for a year, most of the world's population would simply curl up in a fetal ball and die of terror.
Mira Grant
#3. Opportunities are running out, and this is the do-or-die situation when the ball is in your hands, and you can either help your team to victory or not. And so I want to be in those situations. I think about them, and almost look forward to them.
Eli Manning
#4. The Croatians don't play well without the ball.
Barry Venison
#5. I know that I may not always get a hit or may not always catch the ball, but I'm going to damn sure try.
Cliff Floyd
#6. What do you imagine the American people would think of me if I wasted my time going to the ball game?
Grover Cleveland
#7. Flashing Lights In My Mind
Going Back to The Time
Playing Games in the Street
Kicking Balls with My Feet
Theres a Numb in my toes
Standing close to the edge
Theres a ball of my clothes at the end of your bed
As I feel myself fall
Make a joke of it all
One Direction
#8. Scooping up the dress, I slip it over my head, and as it cascades to the floor. I suck my stomach for all I'm worth. Forget staying in with a good book. This Cinderella is going to the ball.
Alexandra Potter
#9. The story was clearly over, as in juggling when the ball you throw up finds the moment to come down, hesitates as if it might not, and then drops at the same speed of that celestial light. And life is no longer good but just what you happen to be holding.
E.L. Doctorow
#10. In fact, my entire childhood consisted of looking at photographs in which the viewer sees the ball behind the line, looking through the goal net, and the poor goalkeeper in front of the net.
Orhan Pamuk
#12. So the Mets are a bad ball club. All right, they're the worst ball club you ever saw. So what? The important thing is they are in the National League and they are familiar.
Jimmy Breslin
#13. Do not lose focus because of small wins or temporary set-backs. You can only score if you keep your eyes on the ball and be certain of where you want to place it even if you are not in physical sight of the goal. Visualise the dream but never take your eyes off the dynamic plan of action.
Archibald Marwizi
#14. There's always going to be a ball up in the air, and what I try to do is make sure that ball is never the kids. If that means sacrificing a social event or having fewer work commitments, it's worth it.
Elisabeth Hasselbeck
#15. This is my moment, this is my chance to make a difference, and you know, I just went for the ball, I attacked it, and I went and got it, ... I was gonna catch that ball, regardless of what happens ...
Santana Moss
#16. When I pick up the ball and it feels nice and light and small I know I'm going to have a good day. But if I picked it up and it's big and heavy, I know I'm liable to get into a little trouble.
Bob Feller
#17. You know, you can try and plan [filming] as much as you want, but you get there on game day and you get thrown a curve ball, I guess, hey, the game plan goes out the window. You've got to adapt.
Michael B. Jordan
#18. Every one who repeats it adds something to the scandal. [The rolling snow-ball.]
Ovid
#19. Talking about golf is always boring. Playing golf can be interesting, but not the part where you try to hit the little ball; only the part where you drive the cart.
Dave Barry
#20. I want to help children develop strengths that allow them to feel they don't have to push things away mentally ... If we 'cotton-ball' kids, it produces adults who are too scared to think for themselves and are easily manipulated.
Morris Gleitzman
#21. You can't imagine what a pleasure this complete laziness is to me: not a thought in my brain- you might send a ball rolling through it!
Leo Tolstoy
#22. Look to the moon when you swing, he instructed. That's what you want. A ball that disappears into it. One that goes to the moon and past. A moonshot.
Alessandra Torre
#24. You just gotta realize relationships are a contact sport, and if you run too fast, nobody'll pass you the ball.
Tracey Alvarez
#25. People have been to jail when they're innocent. I knew I would never miss a single ball on a snooker table on purpose and, until then, I was sure the evidence would support me.
John Higgins
#26. My father never saw me play ball, and I was an outstanding ballplayer. I missed all that adoration.
Danny Aiello
#27. I spend the entire 90 minutes looking for space on the pitch. I'm always between the opposition's two holding midfielders and thinking, 'The defence is here, so I get the ball and I go there to where the space is.'
Xavi
#28. In order to play some sports there's quite a big cost implication, whereas football is relatively cheap. All you need is a ball and a couple of jumpers to practise.
Hope Powell
#29. I can't hit a ball more than 200 yards. I have no butt. You need a butt if you're going to hit a golf ball.
Dennis Quaid
#30. If you have expectations, you try to put your standards on someone else's behavior. The fact is you can't control anyone but yourself, so creating standards, as opposed to expectations, keeps the ball in your court.
Daphne Oz
#31. Some golfers blast their ball from traps, With one adroit explosion, But others, out in ten perhaps, Depend upon erosion.
Richard Armour
#32. We seem to somewhat be behind an eight ball, and what I mean by that is we're constantly waiting for a call from Neil as to whether he wants to do CSNY.
Graham Nash
#33. Being thick isn't an affliction if you're a footballer, because your brains need to be in your feet. And Beckham works hard, he's brave and he crosses a ball superbly. He treats a football like he does a wife, lovingly, with caresses.
Brian Clough
#34. I'm only interested in winning ball games and I can't be worrying about whether the sun's out or the moon's out.
Jim Frey
#35. He hit the ball so hard, I couldn't even turn around in time to see it go over the fence.
Roger Clemens
#37. We are reinventing the world. We've set the ball spinning with little concern for where and how it's going to stop.
Daniel Keys Moran
#38. So it must be my mental, because sometimes when I start on the tee, I still worry about whether my ball is going to hit right or left.
Yani Tseng
#39. Carlton Palmer can trap the ball further than I can kick it
Ron Atkinson
#40. It was as though all my hostilities, anxieties, and conflicts were in one ball that was flying away into space, farther from me all the time, leaving me content with myself.
Bobby Darin
#41. The writer has to take the most used, most familiar objects - nouns, pronouns, verbs, adverbs - ball them together and make them bounce, turn them a certain way and make people get into a romantic mood; and another way, into a bellicose mood. I'm most happy to be a writer.
Maya Angelou
#42. 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
#43. Alcohol whipped me. Alcohol and I had many, many marvelous times together. We laughed, we talked, we danced at the party together; then one day I woke up and the band had gone home and I was lying in the broken glass with a shirt full of puke and I said, 'Hey, man, the ball game's up'.
Harry Crews
#44. 'I'll sit on him,' Otis says and laughs like it's the funniest thing in the world. He twirls a small ball of fire in one hand and a Desert Eagle .50 Caliber in the other. If Seven didn't know him, he'd probably be running away as fast as he could. It's a big gun.
T.J. Klune
#45. All I had ever wanted was a dog who would sleep in my lap while I read and lick my neck and bring me the ball to throw eighty-seven times in a row. I thought a dog would be the key to perfect happiness. And I was right. We are perfectly happy. (
Ann Patchett
#46. The sun is starting to dip to the west, a bright blaring ball tilting toward the Hudson and leaving a collage of peach and purple streaks across the sky.
Gayle Forman
#47. Your woods, irons and wedges are built with specific lengths and lie angles, which demand that you stand to the ball a little differently for each one. The secret is to know which elements of your address position remain constant, and which ones you have to tweak to match the club in your hand.
Sergio Garcia
#48. To see so much misery everywhere, I suspect that God is not rich. He keeps up appearances, it is true, but I feel the pinch. He gives a revolution as a merchant, whose credit is low, gives a ball.
Victor Hugo
#49. I put my little yellow ball earrings in and wore my hair pulled up and back with a yellow banana clip holding it loosely.
Charlaine Harris
#50. When you come out of that pink ugly hole onto this planet you're nothing but a gooey shrieking wrinkled ball of weakness.
Doug Stanhope
#51. Why would you throw a ball in someone's face? ... Huh. That's a pretty good reason. Well, I can't do much about your teacher being pissed, but me and you are good.
Justin Halpern
#53. The guy who's willing to hustle the most is gonna be the guy that just gets that loose ball.
Will Smith
#54. I had a sympathetic role in 'thirtysomething,' and in two weeks I'm going to do the role again. But in the movies, I just love the heavies. It's much more fun. Villains are a ball. People have been laughing at me for 50 years, so I love to sit in the back of the theater and listen to them hate me.
Alan King
#55. In a generation or two, or maybe sooner, young golfers of true sporting instinct will wonder why all this handling of the ball is necessary. It will seem to them that the game is not as good as it might be.
Robert Harris
#56. It's all part of the same ball of wax, right? The oil companies, Israel, Halliburton.
Michael Moore
#57. None of the etiquette books he studied addressed this situation. Maybe he could write one: How to Behave When the Girl You Adore Runs Away from You at Your Own Royal Ball.
Elisabeth Brown
#58. I honestly believe that with a strong mind, you can literally 'will' the ball into the hole.
Ray Floyd
#59. I'm a strategic guy. I'm gonna figure out ways to hurt the defense, but it's not gonna be about throwing a ball through a wall.
Chad Pennington
#60. Glory's like a bowling ball. She gets picked up, fingered, and thrown in the gutter, and yet she still comes back.
Suzanne Wright
#61. her sensor package could track a golf ball and hit it with a torpedo from half the solar system away." "Oh,
James S.A. Corey
#62. I was shot down by a fifth ball, which struck me squarely in the face, and passed out.
John Brown Gordon
#63. The serve is the only thing you know about yourself when you play tennis. If you make it right, you make it right. Nobody can touch you when you serve. Nobody can disturb you. You have the ball in the hand.
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga
#64. When good things happen in the moment of happiness a ball of light will appear. It's not known what it is. What is certain though is that it is a sign of happiness. And if one could obtain it they could grant a single wish... -Yukine Miyazawa After Story ep. 8
Key
#65. As far as a guy like Ray Lewis is concerned, you know he's going to be around the ball all the time.
Jamal Lewis
#66. Sometimes, in a tight game with runners on, digging in at short, ready to break with the ball, a peace I'd never felt before would paralyze the diamond. For a moment of eternal stillness I felt as if I were cocked at the very heart of the Midwest.
Stuart Dybek
#67. She said, "'Ye can we get married at the mall?"
I said, "Look, you need to crawl 'fore you ball
Come and meet me in the bathroom stall
And show me why you deserve to have it all"
Kanye West
#68. You get to the plate and nothing is going through your mind. You see the ball, you see the seams.
Jason Giambi
#69. But in all the stories, you have a single chance; and if you miss it, then it's gone. The door isn't there when you go back to look. There is no second invitation to the ball. This is my chance.
Holly Black
#70. Maybe we can't have everything we want in this relationship, Susanna." He bent his lips to her ears and whispered, "But we have this ball and tonight, you are my queen.
Rachel Hauck
#71. I am very fortunate I can send my kids to private school, but everybody does not have the money. If you cannot get your kid in a good school today, your kids are going to be behind the eight ball.
Spike Lee
#72. I just have to come back tomorrow and try again, ... I have to look at the ball and keep swinging.
Vladimir Guerrero
#73. So, according to Vedanta, the central doctrine of Hinduism, all bodies are the clothes of the one and only Self in its innumerable disguises, and the whole universe is a masquerade ball pretending to be a tragedy and then realizing that it's a ball.
Alan W. Watts
#74. It's not about the long ball or the short ball, it's about the right ball.
Bob Paisley
#75. Put a lot of paint & a wooden ball or other object on a board. Push to the other end of the board. Use this in a painting. - ruler on board.
Jasper Johns
#76. I have to write people who feel honest but also push our cultural ball forward.
Lena Dunham
#78. My idea of managing is giving the ball to Tom Seaver and sitting down and watching him work.
Sparky Anderson
#79. When he hit a ground ball to you, you knew you had to make a good throw because he was going to be running.
Juan Marichal
#80. ...and I realized not without a sinking feeling that he was already completely in Feely's thrall, hanging on her every word like ball on a rubber string, nodding like a demented woodpecker, and grinning like a fool.
Alan Bradley
#81. When I hit the ball, I do want to hurt it.
Bryce Harper
#82. I remember playing football dressed in peculiar costumes with some friends in France and laughing so hard we couldn't even stand up, let alone kick the ball.
Fred Frith
#83. When I was in baseball and you went into the clubhouse, you didn't see ball players with curling irons.
Red Barber
#84. I'm a great believer that if you don't get the ball to the hole, it won't go in.
Colin Montgomerie
#85. Sometimes the basketball gods don't allow the ball to bounce your way ..
Jon-Robert Holden
#86. Once when I was golfing in Georgia, I hooked the ball into the swamp. I went in after it and found an alligator wearing a shirt with a picture of a little golfer on it.
Buddy Hackett
#87. The ball of dark fur pressed itself into my chest, and I wished she was my kitten, and knew that she was not.
Neil Gaiman
#88. Look at the sky: that is for you. Look at each person's face as you pass them on the street: those faces are for you. And the street itself, and the ground under the street, and the ball of fire underneath the ground: all these things are for you.
Miranda July
#89. Once a year, I take my whole wine team down to see the Giants, and we meet the players. I've never seen anyone pitch like Lincecum that can throw the ball and get through the front leg. He has that stiff front leg.
Tom Seaver
#90. Every at-bat, I try to hit the ball. I don't like to strike out. I put the ball in play a lot, so I'll take the hits as they come.
Garrett Atkins
#91. Let me put it this way: I think Republicans tend to keep the ball in play, Democrats go for broke.
Arthur Ashe
#92. I squinted at the cue ball, then at the triangle of balls farther down the table.
"You're a tiny bit off," I said.
I felt him smile. "How much you want to bet?"
"Five dollars."
I felt him give a soft shake of his head.
"Your jacket."
"You want my jacket?"
"I want it off.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#93. There are, after all, between seventy-five thousand and a hundred thousand descendants of the Ball-family slaves. If I were to begin apologizing to every one of these families, it would quickly become a meaningless act.
Edward Ball
#94. Eating's going to be a whole new ball game. I may even have to buy a new pair of trousers.
Lester Piggott
#95. I'm attracted to soccer's capacity for beauty. When well played, the game is a dance with a ball.
Eduardo Galeano
#96. He knows all the golf lingo. You know? You hit your ball, he's like "there's a golf shot. That's a golf shot." Well of course it's a golf shot; I just hit a golf ball. You don't see Gretzky skating around going "there's a hockey shot, that's a hockey shot."
Bill Engvall
#97. Experience as much as you can and absorb a lot of reality. Otherwise, your writing will have the force of a Wiffle ball.
George Meyer
#98. If you play on possession, you don't have to defend, because there's only one ball
Johan Cruijff
#99. I think of stress as the creator of cancer and heart attacks, like a tiny little ball you feed. I believe that one of the reasons I've never got ill is that I'm not stressed.
Simon Cowell
#100. The crowd think that Todd handled the ball ... they must have seen something that nobody else did.
Barry Davies
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