Ernie Banks Quotes

I don't try to hit home runs. I just try to meet the ball and get base hits.

Ernie Banks

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• I lost the ball in the moon.

  

  Hank Sauer
  • Lost
  • Moon
  • Ball

• There are hits and misses, and as an actress, we are mentally ready for all that.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • Ready
  • Actress
  • Hits

• I was trying my best to calm everybody down, because we're going to make mistakes. We've just got to be a little bit smarter with the ball.

  

  Eddie Charles Jones
  • Trying
  • Mistakes
  • Calm

• If you make a lot of yards and you turn the ball over, then you don't score points, ... So that's a tough lesson to learn. Maybe I'm looking at the good side of it Maybe it's good we get the lesson now. Last year, we started out the season and that's exactly what haunted us -- we turned the ball over and right now we're next to last in the league in terms of giveaways and takeaways.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Good
  • Game
  • Training

• You want to keep the ball, make first downs. You're trying to give yourself a chance to run and, every now and then, mix in the pass. When you lose a football game, you can say almost anything about it, but we thought we were trying to do smart things. Finishing off the game, that's a big deal, and that's what we've got to do.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Trying
  • Game
  • Football

• Those same thoughts were going through my head as the ball was floating in there.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Thoughts
  • Head
  • Ball

• As the ball comes down the pitch at such pace, it is a challenge just to keep going. But I'm working on it.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Challenge
  • Ball
  • Pitch

• We didn't take care of it. We just struggled handling the ball.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Care
  • Ball

• You go to any Jay-Z concert, and he plays his hits. Comedians don't have hits. You have to have a whole brand-new hour. You have no hits to rely on. It's the hardest thing.

  

  Aziz Ansari
  • Brand
  • Comedians
  • Hits

• They had a game plan against Kobe that was effective, getting the ball out of his hands.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Game
  • Ball
  • Kobe

• Probably the best I saw was a guy they said took pitches too much, that he should have tried to hit a ball even if it was a little outside: It was Ted Williams. They say he would tell the umpire whether it was a ball or strike.

  

  Don Zimmer
  • Guy
  • Ball
  • Strike

• He can hit the ball out of the park anywhere, probably out of the Grand Canyon.

  

  Jamie Moyer
  • Ball
  • Hit
  • Park

• That was a heads-up play. I was behind him (backing up), and he saw the throw didn't have enough to get the runner. So he ran up where he could get the ball cleanly and make the throw. That made it two outs and no on, instead of (the potential for) an add-on run. The damage was over.

  

  Jamie Moyer
  • Play
  • Ball
  • Throw

• A golf ball is white, dimpled like a bishop's knees, and is the size of small mandarin oranges or those huge pills which vets blow down the throats of constipated cart-horses.

  

  Frank Muir
  • Golf
  • White
  • Ball

• You just have to stay on top of the ball, and keep calling people and asking people, and not get one opinion, but 20. It always changes. It's very important to be involved as a skater because ultimately no one cares more about how you do than yourself.

  

  Sasha Cohen
  • People
  • Opinion
  • Ball

• You may say, "I wish to send this ball so as to kill the lion crouching yonder, ready to spring upon me. My wishes are all right, and I hope Providence will direct the ball." Providence won't. You must do it; and if you do not, you are a dead man.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Kill
  • Ball
  • Lion

• Anybody can distribute the ball, but what she wants to do is know how to break zones and how you can handle things. I think she wants to go to the next step, understanding that you can't play the same way. I think her improvement is simply a result of a year of reflection.

  

  C. Vivian Stringer
  • Break
  • Ball
  • Distribute

• I liked the fact that we only turned the ball over seven times. That's a major. And we had 17 assists. That's an extremely important category. But I don't like the way we executed.

  

  C. Vivian Stringer
  • Fact
  • Ball
  • Turned

• When you're a little kid, you want the ball. You don't want to play defense. When you get the ball, basically you can do whatever you want.

  

  Champ Bailey
  • Kid
  • Ball
  • To Do

• Get into the habit of dealing with God about everything. Unless in the first waking moment of the day you learn to fling the door wide back and let God in, you will work on a wrong level all day; but swing the door wide open and pray to your Father in secret, and every public thing will be stamped with the presence of God.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Work
  • God
  • Father

• I reshuffled the cards that by now we knew well enough. I spoke of the before and the after, of the old generation and of ours, of how we were different, of how she and Stefano were different. And this last argument made a breach, seduced her, I returned to it passionately. She listened to me in silence, evidently she wanted to be helped to compose herself, and slowly she did.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Different
  • Silence
  • Generation

• He kept imagining women like his mother creeping across the border with the hope of being able to make enough to feed themselves and their families, and being murdered by some vigilante who felt he had the right to take the law into his own hands. It was so easy to feel self-righteous and superior when you had a comfortable home, a safe place to live and a full stomach.

  

  Brenda Novak
  • Hope
  • Families
  • Imagining

• I don't try to hit home runs. I just try to meet the ball and get base hits.

  

  Ernie Banks
  • Ball
  • Hits
  • Home Runs