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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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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“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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Pro-rated at 500 at-bats a year that means that for two years out of the fourteen I played, I never even touched 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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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 first time they throw me the ball.
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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.
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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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But if he's able to consistently wait on the ball and see it a little longer and have a shorter stroke to the ball, the strikeouts can be cut down without losing his great power.
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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.
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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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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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Whatever happens on the golf course is OK, because if I put the ball in trouble I know that I have the skills to get it out of trouble and back into play.
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This game isn't real complicated, in that if you turn the ball over you're going to get beat. Those guys quarterbacks each need to be more responsible with the ball.
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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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He handles it well and, I'll tell you, he has good hands. He catches the ball. He'll definitely be more a part of our passing offense.
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I don't know what the situation is, but if I get the ball in good position I try to do the best I can to score.
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As hitters, we definitely know when we hit a ball well. But then you see where it lands, and you say 'Whoa.' That definitely felt good.
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Right now it's really difficult to understand what I have to do on court, ... When the ball comes to me, I don' know what I have to do, where I have to put the ball. I have no confidence at all.
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You decide you'll wait for your pitch. As the ball starts toward the plate, you think about your stance. And then you think about your swing. Then you realize that the ball that went by you for a strike was your pitch.
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I hereby certify that the bearer of this note, Nikolai Ivanovich, spent the night in question at Satan's ball, having been lured there in a transportational capacity... Hella, put in parentheses! And write 'hog.' Signed- Behemoth.
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One of the hardest things for a ball player to do is to accept his role
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Vagisil. Any one of them will give you another two to three inches drop on your curve ball. Of course if the umps are watching me real close I'll rub a little jalapeno up my nose, get it runnin', and if I need to load the ball up I just... (wipes his nose)
