Balls Quotes - Page 14

It was kind of ridiculous to carry it up to a certain point and then drop the ball or the bomb, like quitting the band right after we had signed to Virgin.

I have never been in a bad mood and near a beach ball at the same time. Causation? Correlation? Or fate?

The ball has broken 50-50 for Keegan

I'm also not good with numbers either, so it's not a great mix. People apparently don't want you ball-parkin' it when it comes to their finances.

Travelers are fantasists, conjurers, seers - and what they finally discover is that every round object everywhere is a crystal ball: stone, teapot, the marvelous globe of the human eye.

He's showed him the left leg, then the right. Where's the ball, the defender asks? It's up his sleeve.

Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.

I would still give my left ball to write anything as good as OK Computer.

I'm afraid I have to expel a rather ferocious hairball. You're on your own, girl.

When you hear somebody with balls, that's me.

I always like to see a person stand up to a golf ball as though he were perfectly at home in its presence.

Jesus Christ can't hit a golf ball straight. It's virtually impossible - at best it's an accident.

I've always felt that there's a very thin membrane between madness and alcoholism, and/or destitution and being an OK American guy in a comfortable heated apartment with meatballs and a decent Sauvignon Blanc in the fridge.

Everyone plays the ball over the top and, at the moment, we only concede goals from crosses or balls over the top. I feel we will adapt to that.

I feel as though I stand at the foot of an infinitely high staircase, down which some exuberant spirit is flinging tennis ball after tennis ball, eternally, and the one thing I want in the world is a tennis ball.

I enjoy hitting tennis balls. I haven't lost any of the innocent parts of tennis. I just do it in front of less people.

I hit the ball early and move my wrist a lot, so I get bigger angles.

80 percent of the balls that don't reach the hole, don't go in.

If you run the ball, you control the clock. If you control the clock, you usually control the game.

Bottom line is, if you turn the ball over to a team that isn't as good, you then have brought them up to your level.

To contact the cosmic giggle, to have the flow of casuistry begin to give off synchronistic ripples, whitecaps in the billows of the coincidental ether, if you will. To achieve that, a precondition is a kind of unconsciousness, a kind of drifting, a certain taking-your-eye-off-the-ball, a certain assumptions that things are simpler than they are, almost always precedes what Mircea Eliade called ‘the rupture of plane’ that indicates that there is an archetypal world, an archetypal power behind profane appearances.

A lot of hitters stay away from the plate, some are close up, some are forward, some are back. The thing about hitting is this: You have to know the strike zone. That's the most important thing. Hit strikes and put the bat on the ball.

Actually I started out as a fast bowler but people told me that I was chucking the ball, so i changed to spin.

Especially in gangster films, with the gangster's moll - she would always be more or less of an object. And I'm not convinced of this theory. Because I think even gangsters' women have brains. They think and even, as we say, have balls.

The ball is round so that the game can change direction