Ernie Banks Quotes
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I lost the ball in the moon.
Hank Sauer -
There are hits and misses, and as an actress, we are mentally ready for all that.
Karisma Kapoor -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Those same thoughts were going through my head as the ball was floating in there.
B. R. Hayden
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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 -
We didn't take care of it. We just struggled handling the ball.
Allen Iverson -
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 -
They had a game plan against Kobe that was effective, getting the ball out of his hands.
Phil Jackson -
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 -
He can hit the ball out of the park anywhere, probably out of the Grand Canyon.
Jamie Moyer
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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 -
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 -
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 -
When we signed with Warner Bros., they knew what they were getting. They knew they weren't going to get some easily manipulated prepackaged pop group. That was not going to happen. What they wanted, I think, was the integrity that we had to offer. What they wanted was the kind of street cred or cache that R.E.M. could bring to them and the chance that we would give them a hit or two. What happened was we gave them a bunch of hits. And we became huge.
Michael Stipe R.E.M. -
There’s a massive glitter ball in my head and it has never stopped turning
Jimmy Somerville Bronski Beat -
We'd done an awful lot in a short space of time and it seemed easiest to cut the Gordian knot rather than try and untangle the big tangled ball of string.
Peter Campbell McNeish Buzzcocks
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I could always hit. I learned to hit with a broomstick and a ball of tape and I could always get that bat on the ball.
Stan Musial -
You might pitch a ball on the off stump and think you have bowled a good ball and he walks across and hits it for two behind midwicket. His bat looks so heavy but he just waves it around like it's a toothpick.
Brett Lee -
I abstract it in my photographs: I like large planes and spaces, areas of texture and light, like deserts or oceans or monumental places.
Herb Ritts -
The human mind gets used to strangeness very quickly if it does not exhibit interesting behavior.
Dan Simmons -
Love heals scars love left.
Henry Rollins Black Flag -
I don't try to hit home runs. I just try to meet the ball and get base hits.
Ernie Banks