Ball Quotes
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Here’s the thing about baseball-it’s not the individual sport I thought it was. Turns out I was wrong about that. Yeah, the batter is a lone man against the world. He stands in the batter’s box like a soldier and it’s up to him-and him alone-what happens next. But here’s the thing I didn’t understand until I was forced to, until recently: In order to hit a home run… Someone else has to pitch the ball.
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I just went out and played ball tonight. I took advantage of my opportunities.
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Ball is made of leather, leather comes from cows, cows eat grass, and there is where the ball must be.
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It hurt. At first, I couldn't feel the ball.
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I don't want to say the teams are mirror images of each other, ... but there's a lot of similarities on both sides of the ball.
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I can't go too far above my head because of it. It keeps me from going in the wrong direction. I can still catch balls and pick the ball off.
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The picture of me as a child is that I was always with a ball - that's why I was so skinny: I would miss dinner. Mum would have to leave me some food in the microwave.
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He came on Saturday. Saturday evening there was the Town Ball. Frau Schwarz gave me a box, so I absolutely had to go after I had accepted. Well, I spent a few wonderfully delightful hours with him until 12 o'clock and then with his permission I spent two hours at the ball.
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“Having periods changed my personality: resentful and angry inside, I felt cheated and knew to the core of my being that life was unfair and boys had it easier than girls. A burning ball of anger and rebelliousness started to grow within me.”
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They coughed up the ball, and we were able to capitalize.
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The first time they throw me the ball.
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It doesn't matter where the ball is or what the situation is. I can look around to the guys on my left and right, and know that they are ready to go.
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Guys don't want to get to two strikes, so you have to make quality pitches early in the count, try to get them to put the ball in play.
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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.'
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As a team, we struggled shooting the ball. We just got enough (points) down the stretch.
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He was very low-key. He didn't say a whole lot, but he had that intensity about him. He wanted that ball in a save situation.
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The ball was no longer in his hands. It was on the ground, and he dove on it.
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One of the hardest things for a ball player to do is to accept his role
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That's why he had a higher ball drop.
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Most players I play with, I don't look at their swing when they're over the ball or anything like that.
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That didn't surprise me at all. Clint is just a ball magnet. He makes plays like that every day.
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My greatest high was to hit a ball well, to try to do it perfectly, to try different things, whether they came off or not.
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I saw the ball clearly in. But sometimes it's tough for the linesman. This time it was for him and maybe tomorrow it's going to be for me.
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There is a long way to go but the players are confident and are passing the ball around and that was a big game for us today.
