Ball Quotes
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There are players that try to imitate others, but at free-kick time it is a personal thing. Every person has their own technique and routine when they stand over the ball and I have mine, I am not trying to copy anyone.
Neymar
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We thought we had chances to get back into the game. We turned the ball over here and there, and they did what great teams do - they took advantage of it. When you are playing against a good team like (Detroit), you have to take advantage of the opportunities and you can't throw the ball away.
Allen Iverson
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I just continued to trail Matt Carroll. He's a very good shooter. I just happened to get my hand on the ball.
Eddie Charles Jones
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We understand that we're going to get the ball into Tim and play off him.
Allen Iverson
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We scratched and clawed for a few runs their in the first inning. But for us to be successful this season, we're going to have to hit the ball.
B. R. Hayden
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I would probably be a linebacker today. I wouldn't be carrying the ball 20 or 25 times a game.
Bronko Nagurski
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I first started out by hitting a ball against a wall when I was four.
Evonne Goolagong Cawley
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All the guys who were booing him when he came to the plate were cheering for him when the ball went over the fence. It was nice to see us pull together and get a win.
Aaron Rowand
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We would get in the gap and then kick it out 15 feet, and that's nice because you're sharing the ball. But what we were trying to do was put the game away earlier, so we understood how you do put a game away.
C. Vivian Stringer
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All I'm after is a few square metres to be myself. A space where I can continue to profess my creed: take the ball, give it to a team-mate, my team-mate scores. It's called an assist, and it's my way of spreading happiness.
Andrea Pirlo
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I got whiplash. I didn't even know the wall was there. I tried to blow past the ball and I slammed into the wall.
Gary Sheffield
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I look at Colin Meads and see a great big sheep farmer who carried the ball in his hands as though it was an orange pip.
Bill McLaren
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I was surprised, but we didn't really struggle because we moved the ball. It's just that at the end of every drive, we made a physical error, and you really can't battle back from those, especially against a very good defense.
Nate Burleson
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"I was not able to understand how it could be right to pay an actor, or a singer, or an instrumentalist for entertaining the public and wrong to pay a ball player for doing exactly the same thing.
A. G. Spalding
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If you put the ball in the right place, you don't have to throw hard.
Andy Pettitte
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Sacramento played great and really rebounded the ball. We didn't box out as well as we could have.
Chamique Holdsclaw
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For a 7-iron, you never want the ball to be closer to your left heel than just slightly ahead of the mid-point of your stance. That's especially true if you're a tall player, like me.
Ernie Els
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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
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They coughed up the ball, and we were able to capitalize.
Chris Martin Coldplay
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About a minute-and-a-half to go. He goes on a down-and-in pass. As soon as he caught it, I really puffed him, and his head snapped and the ball flew, and Chuck Weber fell on it. I clenched my fist, I turned around, and I closed my eyes and I said, 'This f-in game is over.'
Chuck Bednarik
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I'm 70, I hit a drive 280 yards the other day. I never hit a ball 280 in my life. I don't know where we're going. They're going to hit balls over 400 yards. We are only 20 or 30 years out.
Gary Player
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Four turnovers. Two assists. I told him he'd have the game ball if he had taken care of the ball a little bit better.
Bo Ryan
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Tim Tebow's like the snake doctor for Florida. Gotta stop the snake doctor, keep the Gators from moving the ball....this time he snaked Alabama with a play action pass.
Gary Danielson
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I use a 1994 South African 5 rand coin to mark my ball. It reminds me of my '94 U.S. Open win at Oakmont.
Ernie Els