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To be a big league ball player, you have to love the game. — Enos Slaughter

Good ball players make good citizens. — Grover Cleveland

Training's completely different now. It used to be a lot of running and work without the ball. Now it's all with the ball, which any player loves. — Frank Lampard

I hope I haven't maxed out, because I'm not satisfied. I hope I can be a better ball player, and I hope I'm on my way. — Scott Rolen

I started playing ball when I was a kid. My dad was a pro ball player and he passed on his knowledge to me. — Kurt Russell

I have a tendency, especially when I'm playing with great players, to try and get them the ball. — Steve Nash

Everyone wants to be known as a great striker of the ball for some reason. Nobody wants to be called a lucky, one-putting s.o.b. — Gary Player

The Ball no question makes of Ayes and Noes, But Here or There as strikes the Player goes. — Edward FitzGerald

Your job is to umpire for the ball and not the player. — Bill Klem

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

As you keep shooting the ball, you become a better basketball player. — Raekwon

Life is a game. To be a world changer choose to be the player and not the ball — Mofoluwaso Ilevbare

Scholes was England's best football player. It was impossible to take the ball from him, and he never mishit a pass. — Sven-Goran Eriksson

Billy Loes was the only player in the majors who could lose a ground ball in the sun — Joe Garagiola

I am a ball player in the summer and a farmer in the winter time, and I aim to be a success at both professions. — Zack Wheat

My advice to defensive players: Take the shortest route to the ball and arrive in a bad humor. — Bowden Wyatt

Four times out of five the linesman gets a better view of the ball near him than the player himself. — Helen Wills Moody

I'm not one to blow smoke at my players. They kicked our butts on the offensive boards. And it's not just because the ball came their way. — Gregg Popovich

A ball player has to be kept hungry to become a big leaguer. That's why no boy from a rich family has ever made the big leagues. — Joe DiMaggio

One of the hardest things for a ball player to do is to accept his role — Scottie Pippen

My first ball I ever got from a Big League player I actually got to purchase in Dodger Stadium in a silent auction, was Reggie Jackson. — Pedro Martinez

We must make sure their worst players get the ball the most. You'll get it back in no time. — Johan Cruijff

Barcelona players are passing the ball at least 25 times to reach the goal, while Real Madrid's Xabi Alonso is doing this all in a single pass. — Roberto Mancini

Put your two best players away from the ball and bring it back to them. — Don Meyer

Zidane is unique. The ball flows with him. He is more like a dancer than a football player. — Zinedine Zidane

You get into pro ball and you realize all the guys were the best players on their teams. You have to keep moving forward. — Matt Holliday

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

I've always studied business. Even when I was a ball player, I'd read business journals and the business sections of newspapers. — Magic Johnson

Players from the Dominican Republic have a history of not playing well in cold weather ... The ball hurts their hands when they make contact. — Grady Little

Our offensive philosophy is to simply find a way to get the ball into the hands of our team's best player. — Kelvin Sampson

I always threw the ball in, because then if I got the ball back, I was the only player unmarked. — Johan Cruijff

In soccer, the blindest player is the one who sees nothing but the ball. — Nelson Rodrigues

With a versatile player, there's no spot on the court you can't pass him the ball. You can do anything. — Kevin Durant

When Cristiano Ronaldo gets the ball, you can just leave him to it while he beats player after player. — Ryan Giggs

Bad putting is due more to the effect the green has upon the player than it has upon the action of the ball. — Bobby Jones

The player who puts the ball through the hoop has ten hands. — John Wooden

The last player you want the ball to go to is the best player on the planet. — Steven Gerrard

Few golfers are born with the natural talent for hitting the ball, but every player is blessed with the God-given ability to throw a club. — Henry Beard

Well I can't rightly say (which player hit the ball hardest), but the ones (home runs by) Ruth hit got smaller quicker. — Walter Johnson

I'm a selfish football player. Each time the ball is snapped, I tell myself that I want to make that tackle, make that big play. — Jevon Kearse

If I would be happy, I would be a very bad ball player. With me, when I get mad, it puts energy in my body. — Roberto Clemente

I didn't do it (pitch like he did) for show. I did it to get batters out. Players would tell me, 'We can't tell where the ball is coming from.' — Luis Tiant

I appreciate this moment in time ... ball players and actors be knowing my rhymes — Common

I'm proud of the fact that I'm the only player to hit a ball completely out of Dodger Stadium. — Willie Stargell

Players taught to watch the man with the ball leaves them totally unprepared for the next move, which is always dictated by a player without the ball. — Tommy Docherty