Ball Game Quotes
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Ball Game Quotes & Sayings
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Once again, there was talk of winning every game, and once again, we proved to be human, because an oblong ball takes funny bounces.
— Michael Pinball Clemons
To be a big league ball player, you have to love the game.
— Enos Slaughter
Nothing makes a pitcher feel more secure than the sight of his teammates circling the bases during a ball game.
— Jim Brosnan
Ranger was slouched on the couch, watching a ball game. Bob was beside him, his big shaggy orange Bob head resting on Ranger's leg.
— Janet Evanovich
With the game on the line. I want the ball in my hands.
— Eli Manning
It's a great day for a ball game; let's play two!
— Ernie Banks
The ball is round, the game lasts ninety minutes, and everything else is just theory.
— Sepp Herberger
If you run the ball, you control the clock. If you control the clock, you usually control the game.
— Tiki Barber
He was the person for whom the clock was always running out, the game was always tied, and the ball was always in his hands.
— Michael Lewis
It was not long before I was struck with the idea that base ball was just the game for a national sport for Americans.
— Henry Chadwick
I like to go see a ball game. I'll have seven, eight, nine - 10 beers, and the second inning will roll around, and I gotta go.
— Doug Benson
The game, the game: here we go again. All glory to it, all things I am and own because of Roller Ball Murder.
— William Neal Harrison
the game required the ball to be hit out of the ground altogether, not merely over the boundary as is the case today.43
— Peter Oborne
His life was forever a chess game played on a roulette wheel. He'd had to take precise, informed, ball-dropping gambles to get where he'd been.
— Debra Anastasia
Life's like a ball game. You gotta take a swing at whatever comes along before you wake up and find out it's the ninth inning.
— Martin Goldsmith
Her favorite game was golf because its essential principles consisted of a stick, a small ball, and a state of mind.
— Harper Lee
Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an ever smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose
— Winston S. Churchill
The bowler approached the wicket at a lope, a trot, and then a run. He suddenly exploded in a flurry of arms and legs, out of which flew a ball.
— Douglas Adams
Being an offensive lineman, you always have the mindset of being an unsung hero - a lot of the people who look at the game follow the ball.
— D'Brickashaw Ferguson
Life is a game. To be a world changer choose to be the player and not the ball
— Mofoluwaso Ilevbare
American business can out-think, out-work, out-perform any nation in the world. But we can't beat the competition if we don't get in the ball game.
— George H. W. Bush
As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along with the ballplayers. I love a ball game.
— Rex Stout
I approach football like a street-ball game, like I'm playing with the fellas in the yard.
— Simeon Rice
Reading scripts is actually quite a relaxing part of the job. Strangely relaxing. This is a whole different ball game.
— Jack O'Connell
Do you know what I don't understand about that ball game? I don't understand why I wanted to kill you.
— Chaim Potok
Honestly, I don't think I'm doing anything any different right now. You swing, and the ball finds a hole. That's it. That's the game of baseball.
— Andrew McCutchen
What do you imagine the American people would think of me if I wasted my time going to the ball game?
— Grover Cleveland
Watching a ball game is one of the sweetest pleasures in the world.
— Silvia Tennenbaum
The ball is round so that the game can change direction
— Sepp Herberger
Anytime you give up one run in Coors Field you expect to win a ball game. It just shows how well Myers pitched.
— Garrett Atkins
Won't it be nice when all this beastly killing is over, and we can enjoy ourselves and not hurt anyone? I hate this game.
— Albert Ball
The ball is round, the game is long.
— Bjorn Borg
If you want to play quicker you can start running faster, but it's the ball that decides the speed of the game.
— Johan Cruijff
The ball is an essential part of the game.
— Johan Cruijff
You don't win a game by hitting the ball out of the court.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
I went from five foot eleven to six foot eight, and the more ball I played, the more I caught on to the game.
— Dennis Rodman
The only real happiness a ballplayer has is when he is playing a ball game and accomplishes something he didn't think he could do.
— Ring Lardner
Jeff's attention is swiveling between the two of them like he's watching a game of tennis being played with a kitten's head instead of a ball.
— Kate Sherwood
Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.
— Woodrow Wilson
Eating's going to be a whole new ball game. I may even have to buy a new pair of trousers.
— Lester Piggott
Slow thinkers are part of the game too. Some of these slow thinkers can hit a ball a long way.
— Alvin Dark
I always wanted the ball in my hands with a game on the line, as I think any real competitor does.
— Jerry West
Chess is a time game, it's a game of patience. That pretty much defines how I run the ball.
— Priest Holmes
The fellow who can pay only twenty-five cents to see a ball game always will be just as welcome at Comiskey Park as the box seat holder.
— Charles Comiskey
The entire ball game, in terms of both the exam and life, was what you gave attention to vs. what you willed yourself to not.
— David Foster Wallace
The web site and the Internet are a whole new ball game.
— Johnny Rivers
Soccer is simple ... you just need to have the right mentality, fighting in every game, in every practice and for every ball.
— Hristo Stoichkov
Ronaldinho was a trickster, an artist with the ball. Leo represents the essence of the game: speed plus skill.
— Luca Caioli
By New Year's Eve, we're so done going out we usually just light a fire, play one last card game, and watch the ball drop in our jammies.
— Mary Page Keller
The same church members who yell like Comanche Indians at a ball game on Saturday sit like wooden Indians in church on Sunday.
— Vance Havner
Movies are a whole different ball-game, now. It's much more of a business - very scientific.
— Sylvester Stallone
I'm attracted to soccer's capacity for beauty. When well played, the game is a dance with a ball.
— Eduardo Galeano
We have to be extremely vigilant and extremely careful when it comes to nuclear. Nuclear changes the whole ball game.
— Donald Trump
Almost any game with any ball is a good game.
— Robert Staughton Lynd
I view game shows as welfare for the hyperactive.
— Jennifer Ball
I have always passed the ball and worked on that part of my game.
— Jamie Redknapp
You either learn to play hard ball or you become the ball.
— Crystal Woods
It's fun when the ball is going in the hole and things are going right, but it's a miserable game when things aren't going well.
— Fuzzy Zoeller
Basketball Rule #9When the game is on
the line,
don't fear.
Grab the ball.
Take it
to the hoop. — Kwame Alexander
It is a game, the whole ball of wax is a game - your life, my life, politics, economy, hunger ...
— Mandy Patinkin
I would probably be a linebacker today. I wouldn't be carrying the ball 20 or 25 times a game.
— Bronko Nagurski
In baseball, you pack your uniform in the clubhouse after a ball game, and you see it hanging up in your locker when you get to your next city.
— Harmon Killebrew
I'm mad at him, too, for being out late. But I'm not mad enough to take a chance on losing a ball game and possibly the pennant.
— Casey Stengel
What a polite game tennis is. The chief word in it seems to be "sorry" and admiration of each other's play crosses the net as frequently as the ball.
— James M. Barrie
Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win.
— Gary Lineker
Programming is similar to a game of golf. The point is not getting the ball in the hole but how many strokes it takes.
— Hayley Mills
How you play the game is for college ball. When you're playing for money, winning is the only thing that matters.
— Leo Durocher
What makes this game so delightful is that when both teams get the ball they are attacking their opponents goal.
— Jimmy Hill
