Bob Stoops Quotes
As soon as I saw him go up for the ball I knew it wasn't going to be dropped. He doesn't drop balls.
Bob Stoops
Quotes to Explore
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I lost the ball in the moon.
Hank Sauer
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Of course managers win ball games.
Walter Alston
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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
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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
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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
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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
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We didn't take care of it. We just struggled handling the ball.
Allen Iverson
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I said last week, we've gotta take care of the ball, especially in the first game. Once we lost the lead, we were chasing after that. When something bad happened, we dwelled on that. Not everybody. When that happens, we have to have a short memory and move on.
Chris Wallace
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When Stephen got hurt...it was either a motivating force for the Pacers to get their run, but at the same time he was turning the ball over a lot, so he may have been an asset by default.
Phil Jackson
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Kobe was waiting for his game to get hot and it never happened, and we tried to force the ball into him and it cost us.
Phil Jackson
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They had a game plan against Kobe that was effective, getting the ball out of his hands.
Phil Jackson
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
