Balls Quotes - Page 30

My great definition of success comes from Thoreau: "If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours." That always has defined my road to what you call phenomenal success. I have advanced confidently in the direction of my dreams. I have lived the life I imagined, and I have had a ball doing it.

I could juggle anything in my day. Balls, cigar boxes, knives...But there was one thing I could never juggle. My income tax.

So that is marriage, Lily thought, a man and a woman looking at a girl throwing a ball

It was hard, that confrontation scene [in "Fences"], that was a hard one. I felt like it was relentless, I never felt like I could just drop the ball when the coverage was on him or anything else.

I love goofing around, and I love breaking people's balls. I do it off camera, as well as on camera.

When your blood is found at the murder scene, that's the end of the ball game, there's nothing more to say.

There are a lot of guys who have terrible throwing motions-worse than mine. But they still get the ball downfield. That's all that matters.

Don't throw the ball before you have it.

Don't try to strike everybody out ... stay back and just focus on the catcher's mitt, just throw the ball low in the strike zone.

I imagined that being someday in pro ball I would have been Kevin Costner in Bull Durham. If I had never discovered acting, I literally would have been that guy.

I literally would have been the guy that would have played pro ball until they came to me and said, "Go home, you don't work here anymore."

When I was a rookie, Cy Young used to hit me flies to sharpen my abilities to judge in advance the direction and distance of an outfield-hit ball.

Velocity is one thing, but the thing that worries me is my ball-strike ratio is about 1-to-1.

Young stand-ups, we ought to do comedy in George Carlin's spirit, in Richard Pryor's spirit, in Jackie Gleason's spirit, in Lucille Ball's spirit, because they did it with the spirit.

In Toronto, Serena Williams was not fit at all, not striking the ball well at all, and went three sets with someone (ranked) 92 in the world.

To catch a ball, I'd commit suicide.

The ball must be as slippery as a wet baby.

I had 10 to 12 close buddies who I played ball with all the way from elementary to high school. That is where I learned to compete.

Much scientific truth proved to be as hypothetical as poetic allegory. The relationshiip of those rod-connected blue and red balls to an actual atomic structure was about the same as the relationship of Christianity to the fish or the Lamb.

Like most kids, my dad played. He would drag us out to the course and make us shag balls for him and caddy and all that kind of stuff.

But when Gronk scores - it was like his eighth touchdown of the year - he spikes the ball and he deflates the ball. I love that, because I like the deflated ball. But I feel bad for that football, because he puts everything he can into those spikes.

Explore the internet long enough and you'll see completely balls out madness there.

I will send a fastball into the cyber hole.

I've matured a lot as a pitcher. I understand what my strengths are. I've learned that I've got a great sinker, I get a lot of ground balls, and it's easy to get a ground-ball double play.

I've had plenty of practice and I'm hitting the ball well. I've had no injury worries so I'm in good shape.