Quotes About Curve Balls

#1. Failure in training identifies weaknesses so as to prevent them in the field, because as the common saying goes in the tactical community, "We don't rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our training." We live by that code.

Gary J. Byrne

#2. The gap is not between knowing it and living it, it's between knowing it and living it consistently. You know, we've all had moments when we got it right. Most of us have moments when we get it right every day. The trouble is getting it right when a curve-ball comes at us.

Marianne Williamson

#3. For people who have ... had curve balls thrown at them, it is easier to digest change and digest change in other people. Change only scares the small-minded. The small-minded and me.

Casey Affleck

#4. Life doesn't exactly give us what we need when it's the perfect time. It's not a pitching machine straight over the plate. Life throws curve balls - hard and fast, unpredictable. But you still have to hit that sucker or strike out swinging.

Kandi Steiner

#5. Jimmy Connors likes the ball to come at him in a straight line, so that he can hit it back in another straight line. When it comes to him in a curve, he uses up half of his energy straightening it up again.

Clive James

#6. When life throws you curve balls, become a curve ball hitter.

C.L. Swinney

#7. Business, like life, is funny. We all go through difficult times, and we all have to face curve balls and challenges, each and every week. And we need to laugh when things are funny.

Ronnie Apteker

#8. Life keeps throwing me curve balls and I don't even own a bat. At least my dodging skills are improving.

Jayleigh Cape

#9. Although I kept postponing my dream, I realized that I could do so no longer, and that the universe always favors those who fight for what they want. After

Paulo Coelho

#10. Right then I should have also thought about the curve balls coming my way, but sometimes it's really hard to see things until theyhit you upside the head. Then it's too late.

Maria Rachel Hooley

#11. Down they went, into the darkness. Down ancient, worn steps coated in slippery mildew. Down into the deep recesses of the earth, far beneath the corridors of Deep-Spire.

Sam J. Charlton

#12. Life throws many curve balls, and if you don't swing ... you're never going to hit any!

Taylor Hicks

#13. I'm a master assembler of Ikea furniture, in case anyone wants to know.

Allison Williams

#14. I have five pitches. Fast ball, change, curve, slider, screwball. I don't know any hitters. Catcher, he tells me what to do. I can get any pitch I want over the plate.

Juan Marichal

#15. You have to hold on to what you find because life has a way of throwing you curve balls that you never expect.

Cristin Milioti

#16. I'm blessed to be able to do what I do.

Zakk Wylde

#17. There are a number of writers who believe it is their duty to throw as many curve balls at the reader as possible. To twist and twist again. These are the Chubby Checkers of crime fiction and, while I admire the craft, I think that it can actually work against genuine suspense.

Mark Billingham

#18. I feel confident imposing change on myself. It's a lot more fun progressing than looking back. That's why I need to throw curve balls.

David Bowie

#19. Accept what you can not change-change that which is unacceptable.

Jennifer Fallon

#20. There will always be some curve balls in your life. Teach your children to thrive in that adversity.

Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe

#21. Doctrine is to be the balm of a healing experience of God, not a theological scalpel to wound and exclude people.

Diana Butler Bass

#22. 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.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#23. You're gonna get thrown curve balls left and right, and that's just the way it goes.

Andrew McMahon

#24. Life can throw curve balls of discouragement ...

Asa Don Brown

#25. Life has the habit of throwing curve balls to determine if you are paying attention.

Steven Redhead

#26. Sometimes our Biggest Nightmare turns out to be our Biggest Gift. And it all comes down to our attitude. Life will throw us curve balls and disappointments, even heartbreak. But ultimately we can choose if we're going to be Bitter or Better for the experience.

Kathryn Orford

#27. But life inevitably throws us curve balls, unexpected circumstances that remind us to expect the unexpected. I've come to understand these curve balls are the beautiful unfolding of both karma and current.

Carre Otis

#28. I do feel it's important to have some kind of faith in something, but [it is] impossible for many of us. I personally don't have any faith in anything, but it's great if you can.

Woody Allen

#29. Can ye fathom the ocean, dark and deep, where the mighty waves and the grandeur sweep?

Fanny Crosby

#30. He was looking forward to letting Joanne know, in a casual way, that he had read these books.

Ken Follett

#31. 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.

Carrie Underwood

#32. My fingers are too short to enable me to get grip enough on the ball to pitch a deep curve, so that I have been compelled to depend more on drops, straight balls and the different artifices known to pitchers to deceive the batter.

Pud Galvin

#33. He's so ugly. When you walked by him, your pants wrinkle. He made fly balls curve foul.

Mickey Rivers

#34. You really can't prepare for anything in life. The second you know what's going to happen, there's always a curve ball, so I'm just chillin', cruising along for the ride.

Shailene Woodley

#35. The man who is too set to change is dead already. The funeral is a mere detail.

Henry Ford

#36. It is every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it.

Albert Einstein

#37. You may have a plan, but life throws you curve balls. Put God first; his plan is better anyway.

Lisa Vidal

#38. Our own heart, and not other men's opinions, forms our true honor.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#39. Life has a funny way of creating it's own tests. It throws curve balls that make you do and think and feel things that are in direct conflict with what you had planned and don't allow you to operate in terms of black and white.

K.A. Tucker

#40. It started long before this, when stars were mere particles in swirling clouds of dust. And every event since has conspired to bring us together.

Leylah Attar