Drop The Ball Sayings

#1. We have to judge politicians by their cumulative score. In one innings they make a great catch, in another they drop the ball. In one they score a home run, in another they strike out. But it is their cumulative batting average that we are interested in.

Jesse Jackson

#2. It's a tremendous responsibility to be direct descendants of the prophet Muhammad. This family has had the burden of leadership on its shoulders for 1,400 years. I'm not going to drop the ball on my shift.

Abdallah II Of Jordan

#3. No matter how great a writer, artist, or entrepreneur, he is a mortal, he is fallible. He is not proof against Resistance. He will drop the ball; he will crash. That's why they call it rewriting.

Steven Pressfield

#4. I play in front of 70,000 fans week in and week out, and I may drop the ball in practice, I may run the ball the wrong way, but once it's game time, it's game on.

Donald Driver

#5. My ex-husband and I, even though we're not together, we are 100 percent together in raising our kid. We communicate a lot and where I drop the ball and need him to pick it up or vice versa, he's there.

Charisma Carpenter

#6. I guess the biggest thing is that I committed to a spiritual center before I do anything else. And I put some daily things in my life into practice and I maintain that, to make sure that I don't drop the ball.

Kathy Mattea

#7. Basketball Rule #7

Rebounding
is the art
of anticipating,
of always being prepared
to grab it.
But you can't
drop the ball.

Kwame Alexander

#8. It was kind of ridiculous to carry it up to a certain point and then drop the ball or the bomb, like quitting the band right after we had signed to Virgin.

Elliott Smith

#9. Sometimes, the people who are helping you can drop the ball.

Gus Van Sant

#10. I used to be a rabid reader, but now it's scripts or nothing - network television is quite relentless, and you can't drop the ball.

Robert Carlyle

#11. Vagisil. Any one of them will give you another two to three inches drop on your curve ball. Of course if the umps are watching me real close I'll rub a little jalapeno up my nose, get it runnin', and if I need to load the ball up I just ... (wipes his nose)

Eddie Harris

#12. If you mean the ease with which you drop coins when you're off a-cunting, you're right. You're a one-man charity ball for the whores of Camorr, you are

Scott Lynch

#13. Dear old fellow! He couldn't have got himself up with more care if he'd been going a-wooing, said Jo to herself, and then a sudden thought born of the words made her blush so dreadfully that she had to drop her ball, and go down after it to hide her face.

Louisa May Alcott

#14. My idea of a 'super bowl' is when the catcher is standing in front of the plate with the ball, waiting for me as I round third ... and I make him drop it. That's a quality Super Bowl.

Kirk Gibson

#15. Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples.

Sherwood Anderson

#16. Got any pitches? I got five pitches-rise-ball, curveball, screwball, drop-ball and changeup.

Jennie Finch

#17. If he takes the option of dropping behind the point where the ball rests, keeping in line with the pin, his nearest drop is Honolulu.

Jimmy Demaret

#18. Her face was the best of Raquel Welch and Christy Brinkley combined. All atop a curvaceous body that would make Rubens drop his paintbrush."
-Adam W. Jones, Fate Ball

Adam W. Jones

#19. Every time the ball drop on New Year's Eve,
We toast to more money, we smoke to more cheese ...

Prodigy

#20. I've got to tell you, I've played real characters before and people always bring up this word 'impersonation,' and I'm never entirely sure what it means.

Toby Jones

#21. If you are worrying about reputation, you are taking time away from doing the things that really matter.

Taite Adams

#22. Benny [Goodman] used to practice 15 times more than the whole band combined.

Harry James

#23. I was supposed to stay for 3 months. But I think I always knew I would stay a little longer, despite the crazy Frenchies. Or maybe because of them.

Vicki Lesage

#24. Every time I fumble or drop a ball I am embarrassed.

Dante Hall

#25. Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's "yes," all's well. That is enough.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#26. After a pretty amazing year that included more wins than I thought possible, I rang in 2013 by watching the Times Square ball drop on TV ... and then heading directly to bed. It might not have been the typical New Year's Eve for a 21-year-old, but what can I say? It was a training night!

Ashley Wagner

#27. It's really hard to perfect one aspect of your kicking game when you're spending some of your time kicking with a holder, some of your time kicking off a tee, and some of your time drop-kicking the ball. To be able to concentrate just on my punting responsibilities will do wonders for me.

Pat McAfee

#28. By New Year's Eve, we're so done going out we usually just light a fire, play one last card game, and watch the ball drop in our jammies.

Mary Page Keller

#29. One of the many reasons I love living in New York is that we get a front row seat to the innumerable thrills that take place here - from conventions and awards shows, to parades and U.N. assemblies. But my favorite New York tradition is the annual New Year's Eve ball-drop on Times Square.

Marlo Thomas

#30. A man does not recover from such jolts
he becomes a different person and, eventually, the new person finds new things to care about.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#31. Work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. The other four balls
family, health, friends, integrity
are made of glass. If you drop one of these, it will be irrevocably scuffed, nicked, perhaps even shattered.

Gary Keller

#32. It's been 18 months since I won on The European Tour and to win the flagship event, I could not have asked for any more.

Rory McIlroy

#33. 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.

#34. You get no points for style when it comes to putting. It's getting the ball to drop into the cup that counts.

Laurie Auchterlonie

#35. Rick Perry, started out like a ball of fire from Texas and then he started to drop and now he's retooling. He's adding advisers to his campaign team. This guy had advisers? Really?

David Letterman

#36. You may be practical, but I am not foolish. Only a woman testing a man tells him not to bother." His eyes glinted. "It's a trap - to see if I'm stupid enough to believe your shameless lies.

Emma Alisyn

#37. If everything always went perfectly, I would feel like, When is the ball going to drop? Because good things don't always last. Maybe I'm a pessimistic person. When something just seems too good, I can't believe it.

January Jones

#38. A few strands of his long, dark hair had been caught by the wind and blown against his face. Without thinking, she reached up and smoothed the strands away from his skin, wishing she could smooth away the pain etched there.

Kiki Hamilton

#39. In terms of evolutionary history, it was only yesterday that men learned to walk around on two legs and get in trouble thinking complicated thoughts. So don't worry, you'll burn out.

Haruki Murakami