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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

When I was playing football, I always felt in complete control. When I play golf and come under pressure, it's a completely different ball game. — Alan Hansen

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

If you go to the ball game, you don't need to read the game story. — Jim Lehrer

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

Steph is scary. I've never seen anyone who can shoot the ball off the dribble like him. He got it going in 4th. Every game is different. — LeBron James

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 first time I picked up a bat in a professional game, I hit a ball hard left-handed, and my first home run was so effortless, it surprised me. — Chili Davis

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

Soccer is a game for 22 people that run around, play the ball, and one referee who makes a slew of mistakes, and in the end Germany always wins. — Gary Lineker

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

I was not successful as a ball player, as it was a game of skill. — Casey Stengel

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

I like the ball in a big game. I'm not afraid to take it. — David Wells

Donning a glove for a backyard toss, or watching a ball game, or just reflecting upon our baseball days, we are players again, forever young. — John Thorn

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

We are a team. We share the ball, we share the game, we share the worries. — Bill Shankly

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

Loneliness sucks. It's a slog. It feels wonderful and exhilarating when someone makes it go away. But love is a whole different ball game. — Lynn Coady

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

When they start the game, they don't yell, "Work ball." They say, "Play ball." — Willie Stargell

A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team. — Pat Riley

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

It is dangerous to spring to obvious conclusions about baseball or, for that matter, ball players. Baseball is not an obvious game. — Roger Kahn

Does one eat peanuts at a ball game?' 'It ain't hardly legal if you don't. — Edna Ferber

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

In playing or managing, the game of ball is only fun for me when I'm out in front and winning. I don't give a hill of beans for the rest of the game. — John McGraw

Hey, this was rugby, not that daft game with the round ball. — J.L. Merrow

That's the name of the game ... pleasing the customer. If we ever lose sight of that fact, we've lost the ball game. — Ray Kroc

I had no chance of controlling a ball game until I first controlled myself. — Carl Hubbell

In the closing seconds of every game, I want the ball in my hands for the last shot - not in anybody else's, not in anybody else's in the world. — Larry Bird

There's only one ball game for any writer, and it's to keep you turning the pages. That's the whole ball game. That's what I have to do. — Mike Lupica

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 #9

When the game is on
the line,
don't fear.
Grab the ball.
Take it
to the hoop. — Kwame Alexander

Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself. — Salman Rushdie

One disco, one soft ball game, one lost love, one gay pride rally at a time. — Jasmine Guy

The name of the game is 'kill the quarterback.' Every football team tries to knock the guy out of the game that's handling the ball. — Joe Namath

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

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

What makes this game so delightful is that when both teams get the ball they are attacking their opponents goal. — Jimmy Hill

In order for this team to win the game, the quarterback has to throw the ball. — John Madden

I have the opportunity to control what happens in a game. I'll have the ball in my hand, and only I know what I'm going to do with it. — Clinton Portis

It's like you came to a controversy and a ball game breaks out. — Matt Keough

I love the feel of hitting the ball hard, the pleasure of a rally. It is these things that make tennis the delightful game that it is. — Helen Wills Moody