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 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

• They've got so much athletic ability. They can go outside and pressure the ball. Not too many teams can keep my guards in check because my guys are quick. But they did a good job keeping them out of the lane.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Ability
  • Pressure
  • Ball

• When people think girl adventurers, they tend to think of a spunky, plucky tom-boy with a chip on her shoulder. I'm not saying that this makes for a dull character, but I think other types of adventurous girls exist. It's easy to fall into well-established tropes, believing that the tropes of a genre define the genre itself.

  

  Ted Naifeh
  • People
  • Character
  • Girl

• Iran is a state sponsor of terrorism. And for them to be able to provide nuclear technology to non-state actors, that's unacceptable.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Technology
  • Iran
  • Nuclear

• I think Queen tribute bands are great. However, we have to keep them at arm's length, otherwise it could be too dangerous.

  

  Brian May Queen
  • Great
  • Dangerous
  • Bands

• Think of everybody you talk to as having a flashing sign on their chest saying: Make me feel special!

  

  Arthur L. Williams, Jr.
  • Think
  • Feel
  • Special

• That I was not dueling with the king, but trying to communicate with him, was itself an incommunicable fact.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Trying
  • King

• 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