Ball Quotes
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We thought it would do OK, but we weren't sure. We didn't have a crystal ball, and we didn't say, 'Oh yeah, it's a smash.' We liked the song but didn't know if it would be the best to debut the album with. But there is something special about the song. People caught onto it.
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It doesn't matter who scores the points, it's who can get the ball to the scorer.
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The ball is in the court of the two principals. There is basically four options they can take a look at.
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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.
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Hey! Sorry, lady, but nobody's staking anybody at this party! I hung a disco ball for this.
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Against the flying ball no valor avails.
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He said the first baseman caught the ball, I saw it completely different. I asked him to ask the other umpire and he said it was my call and I'm not going to ask the other umpire. I really need to watch what I say. I've been reprimanded before. That didn't have a whole heck of a lot of bearing on the ball game. It was pretty well out of reach, but let's just put it this way: I've got a control pitcher on the mound and he walks five guys in three innings. That's all I'll say. He hasn't walked five guys in five games.
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Fundamentals are the most valuable tools a player can possess. Bunt the ball into the ground. Hit the cutoff man. Take the extra base. Learn the fundamentals.
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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.
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So put me in a cage, lock me in a room. Throw away the key, I dare you. I’ll break down the walls, a high heel wrecking ball. And I won’t let you tear me down, no.
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That little white ball won't move until you hit it, and there's nothing you can do after it has gone.
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I was on them a little bit after the game because they were dumping the ball in his lap when he wasn't hot. But I thought they did a good job of milking the clock.
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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.
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Pat's impact is that you can't just double Kevin anymore and single-block the other guy. Pat gives us some swagger against the run. He's determined that no one will run the ball on us because of him. Guys buy into that and start having high expectations for themselves, and I think that helps the whole defense.
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And I missed it by two feet. It makes me understand and appreciate what the ball does do on its way into the plate.
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That zone sagged off us late in the game. We were looking for Tyler, but they had a guy sitting in his lap and a guy behind him. So it was tough to get him the ball.
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When Yogi hit the ball down the left-field line, with Amoros' speed and being a left-handed thrower -- a right-handed thrower probably couldn't have caught the ball. I always kid around with people. I say, 'I was very important in that seventh game.' You don't win many games by being taken out of the game.
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I started by hitting balls against walls with an apple crate board.
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We have to be a team that's going to be a little bit grimy, we're going to have to go after every loose ball that we can, we're going to have to be the team that dives on the floor.
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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.
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It was a pass out into the flat. I saw the ball pop out and scooped it up on the first try. I got lucky.
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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.
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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.
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They had a game plan against Kobe that was effective, getting the ball out of his hands.
