Top 43 Ground Ball Quotes
#1. When I throw a ground ball, I expect it to be an out, maybe two.
Warren Spahn
#2. I don't know if people know how hard it is to get a hit or how hard it is to field a ground ball. It's an easy game in principal, but to actually execute the game it's very difficult.
Morgan Ensberg
#3. 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
#4. Good afternoon ... My name is Lucy ... I'm going to be your right-fielder ... Our special today is a misjudged fly-ball. We also have a nice bobbled ground ball and an exellent late throw to the infield ... I'll be back in a moment to take your order.
Charles M. Schulz
#5. Billy Loes was the only player in the majors who could lose a ground ball in the sun
Joe Garagiola
#6. If you can pick up a ground ball you'll play for any team you want.
Marcus Holman
#7. And, you know, you try and preach to them there's more to this game than just walking up to home plate, swinging the bat, fielding a ground ball. There's some dedication in it, some love you've got to put into this work.
Eddie Murray
#8. The dreams are that you're gonna have a great series and win. The nightmares are that you're gonna let the winning run score on a ground ball through your legs. Those things happen, you know. I think a lot of it is just fate.
Bill Buckner
#9. I love the slider. I'll throw it anytime. It helps the curve. The last five feet, it dives toward the left-handed hitter's box. It's a pitch that looks like a fastball coming in. It's a pitch I throw when I need a ground ball with a man on base.
Kerry Wood
#10. If overconfidence can cause the Roman Empire to fall, I ought to be able to get a ground ball.
Dan Quisenberry
#11. I've matured a lot as a pitcher. I understand what my strengths are. I've learned that I've got a great sinker, I get a lot of ground balls, and it's easy to get a ground-ball double play.
Tim Hudson
#12. The great are like a rubber ball; the harder they hit the ground, the higher they rise.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#14. Short putts are missed because it is not physically possible to make the little ball travel over uncertain ground for three or four feet with any degree of regularity.
Walter Hagen
#15. Vinyl's just a fun endgame step. I work with analogue signal chains too, but the mp3 is the way I listen to music.
Tim Hecker
#17. I try to hit the ball along the ground, especially against fast bowlers. I also like the bat to come down in the right position and check if my body position is correct. If I'm really watching the ball carefully, then automatically I'm in a good position to hit it down the ground.
Virender Sehwag
#18. Some feminists have this party-line attitude, and they can be very extremist. The most enlightened characters in my film are women.
Lina Wertmuller
#19. there must be instinct on d inside to have an increase on d outside
Ikechukwu Joseph
#20. For the Spartans, it wasn't walls or magnificent public buildings that made a city; it was their own ideals. In essence, Sparta was a city of the head and the heart. And it existed in its purest form in the disciplined march of a hoplite phalanx on their way to war!
Bettany Hughes
#21. 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
#23. As I was in the air, the ball took a bad hop and caromed behind me, but I was able to catch it with my bare hand. I hit the ground, bounced back up, and threw Burroughs out at first.
Ozzie Smith
#24. Kindness eases everything almost as much as money does.
Mason Cooley
#25. When I was a wee lad, Uncle Dickie sat me on his knee, and regaled me with stories about the genesis of a game that involved trying to jam a ball into a hole in the ground with a stick,
David Feherty
#27. Why do people want to talk to each other? I mean, what are the things people always want to find out about other people?
Shirley Jackson
#28. Wake up for your call no matter how many times you fall; Stand tall and stretch yourself once more. Rise up from the ground, roll the ball and be hopeful you will score!
Israelmore Ayivor
#29. When you're having trouble and topping the ball, it means the ground is moving on you.
Chi Chi Rodriguez
#30. I am a believer in passing the ball on the ground, I was lucky to be part of teams like that at Arsenal, with the French national team and with Monaco and at Barcelona. I know you can win in other ways, but I believe that is the way football should be played.
Thierry Henry
#31. He leans down and places a soft kiss on my nose. "What was that about?" I ask. Ronan smirks, running his hand through his hair and disheveling it a little. "Just felt like kissing your nose." "Weirdo," I tease.
Mia Asher
#32. He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass.
Edgar Fiedler
#33. Instead, we did take our eye off the ball. We decided, instead of finishing the job in Afghanistan, to go into Iraq. And today, unfortunately, if you look at the situation on the ground, it is a mess.
Chris Van Hollen
#34. To go from being an unpopular, chubby little kid who was chasing girls and couldn't seem to catch them, to being chased after and making sure I ran slow enough that I did get caught, it was 180 degree turn. It was being given the keys to the candy store.
Paul Stanley
#35. Acting is hard work. At times, it's very energizing and enervating. It's childish. It's also responsible. It's illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It's bizarre, diabolical. It's exciting.
Al Pacino
#36. Chase rushed after her in pursuit. The woman lost one of her high-heeled shoes and Chase took advantage of her lack of balance to tackle her. They crashed to the ground.
"Why are you running from the ball, Cinderella?" he asked.
Stefania Mattana
#37. Niggas pray and pray on my downfall, But every time I hit the ground I bounce up like round ball
Jay-Z
#38. The biggest mistake is trying to pinch down on the ball and ripping out a big divot, often hitting the ground before the ball. You'll dig up some turf, but you won't create much backspin.
Ernie Els
#39. A good dancer is an educated one, so don't abandon school.
Deborah Bull
#40. How do they do it?" He stopped at her side, his eyes on the jugglers. It seemed impossible that not one ball fell to the ground.
"Determination." She elbowed him playfully. "And being willing to make a few mistakes.
Leigh LaValle
#41. When I was a kid, I used to try and hit every ball out of the ground. After playing one-day cricket and Test cricket, I never thought I'd get a chance to play like that again, ever. Twenty20 has given me the opportunity of playing like a kid again. I can just feel free and go out there and hit.
Yuvraj Singh
#42. They were four desperate men, made hard by life, cruel by nature, and driven to desperation by imprisonment.
Louis L'Amour
#43. the game required the ball to be hit out of the ground altogether, not merely over the boundary as is the case today.43
Peter Oborne
