Top 1200 Ball Game Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Whenever you don't catch a ball in a game, you really find out who loves you and who doesn't.

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

You don't win a game by hitting the ball out of the court.

The game changes when you play good defense and don't come up with the ball.

Any situation in the game when you have the ball you can see there are good opportunities.

The game is No. 1. You are an adjunct to the game. In a studio, there is no game. You are the star. That's why you are there. For the game, you can't go away from the game and beat your chest. People are there to watch the game. You are there to supplement, not to override or overwhelm.

In high school I carried the ball almost every play of the game.

I have evolved my game to be quick, to know what to do when the ball comes to me.

I look at the game like, 'How can I impact it not just standing there?' Just try to be active offensively setting screens, doing stuff like that, but I'm also trying to be active driving the ball to the hole, finishing, one-dribble pull-ups and stuff like that. Just playing ball and not being robotic. Just evolving.

I would probably be a linebacker today. I wouldn't be carrying the ball 20 or 25 times a game.

If my body gets tired in the game, it's harder to keep the quality on the ball.

It's a great day for a ball game; let's play two!

The best strikers make you sit up and take notice because every time they get the ball, you think that something amazing could happen. Of course they'll score goals, but they'll have something in their game which makes you think, 'Wow, he can win this game by doing something magical.'

The ball is round, the game lasts ninety minutes, and everything else is just theory.

As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along with the ballplayers. I love a ball game.

The web site and the Internet are a whole new ball game.

Whoever has not experienced the pleasure of taking a young lady to her first game of ball should seize the first opportunity to do so. Her remarks about plays, her opinions of different players and the umpire, and the questions she will ask concerning the game, are all too funny to be missed.

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.

I was always really good with the ball, I was always passing the ball, scoring, shooting the ball. I think for me, that's just a normal thing.

It's not just about getting the ball and figuring out every time how you can keep possession, because there are plenty of players who can do that. That's just not how I view my performances. It's about, What can I do to change the game and the attacking aspect of the game?

Quite honestly, cricket is same at all levels. It's a game of bat and ball.

I feel like I'm strong enough that I don't have to do anything to turn on the ball. When I do that-when I'm ready to take the ball up the middle, when I'm willing to go the other way-that's when I can turn on the ball.

Watching a ball game is one of the sweetest pleasures in the world.

I always leave for the stadium on the second bus. Never the first. And I have to have new shoes - brand new shoes - for every game. Same with gloves. But I don't use my gloves in pregame, so the first football I catch with my new gloves each game is the first ball I catch in the game.

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

We don't even think about it out there. We just focus on doing our job. The ball is the same baseball, the game is the same game. We're going to just keep trying to do our jobs.

If you watch me during the game, I celebrate when we press the ball and it goes out.

I really enjoy being in the game for every single ball.

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

I don't think the ball matters to spinners as much as the wicket. If the wicket offers help and is turning, then it doesn't matter if it's a new ball or an old ball.

I have to open the game from my position. It's really important to play with the ball.

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

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

I enjoyed playing any type of cricket. Didn't matter what type it was because I did not want to change my game. My game was built on one type of cricket: if there was a ball to hit, you hit it, whether it was Test matches, whatever it was.

There is fireworks before the game; there is the national anthem before the game, so that is a huge difference to how it is in Germany: like, after the warmup, you touch the ball 20 minutes later. So that is a little bit different. The league, for example, the MLS is quite a young league, actually, but it is developing.

The massive thing that has changed for me was the game management aspect. I still get it wrong sometimes, we all do, when to attack and when to kick, how to control the game, speeding it up and slowing it down. Whereas I used to just go flat out, as hard as I can, get the ball out and get to the ruck as quick as possible.

Carrying the ball is one of the strongest points in my game and I like to be a danger on the pitch.

You've got to have one of those guys on your ball club that, when you have runners on scoring position, you know that guy is going to drive the ball and put the ball in play and pick them up.

Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.

You see a lot of European influence coming in with bigger guys having a larger skill set, shoot the ball, handle the ball, pass the ball. I'm hoping that'll develop into something I can do.

If you go in with intensity and fight for the ball it gives you more confidence in the game and you can play better.

I've noticed the sound of the golf ball being hit by the golf club is different, and much more realistic, with the hearing aids. The sound with the hearing aids makes sense, and better represents what I know is happening to the golf ball. So you could say that the hearing aids help give me confidence regarding my golf game.

There are some days when the ball doesn't want go in, but our goal is to win every game.

I feel like if they put the ball in the air, it's my ball. It's either a PI or it's my ball.

Baseball is a universal language. Catch the ball, throw the ball, hit the ball.

I have always passed the ball and worked on that part of my game.

It's a team game. I feel happier when I pass the ball than when I score.

I'm attracted to soccer's capacity for beauty. When well played, the game is a dance with a ball.

That's the great thing about being an all-rounder. You can impose yourself on the game with bat and ball.

I don't like comparisons with football. Baseball is an entirely different game. You can watch a tight, well-played football game,but it isn't exciting if half the stadium is empty. The violence on the field must bounce off a lot of people. But you can go to a ball park on a quiet Tuesday afternoon with only a few thousand people in the place and thoroughly enjoy a one-sided game. Baseball has an aesthetic, intellectual appeal found in no other team sport.

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

Why isn’t it fun to watch a videotape of last night’s football game even when we don’t know who won? Because the fact that the game has already been played precludes the possibility that our cheering will somehow penetrate the television, travel through the cable system, find its way to the stadium, and influence the trajectory of the ball as it hurtles toward the goalposts!

Even when you are not having the ball, you have to stay consistent, organised, and that's what keeps you in the game.

Rather than opera, football is more like ballet or a chess game. You can really see it in a team like Arsenal, especially when Dennis Bergkamp was playing. He seemed to be able to read the game like a chessboard and knew where a player would be several seconds later and put the ball there for him.

If you want to play quicker you can start running faster, but it's the ball that decides the speed of the game.

I don't know if people know how hard it is to get a hit or how hard it is to field a ground ball. It's an easy game in principal, but to actually execute the game it's very difficult.

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

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

I have had a bowl with the pink ball but it was in a day game at Wormsley.

Your job as a receiver is to get open and catch the ball and block in the run game.