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A boy cannot begin playing ball too early. I might almost say that while he is still creeping on all fours he should have a bouncing rubber ball.
Christy Mathewson

Cannot, While, Playing

You don't just throw the ball - you propel it.
Warren Spahn

Everything I did that required effort, I opened my mouth. Even to catch a ball, I opened my mouth.
Betty Cuthbert

Everything, Effort, Mouth

Some of these guys wear beards to make them look intimidating, but they don't look so tough when they have to deliver the ball. Their abilities and their attitudes don't back up their beards.
Don Drysdale

Tough, Guys, Wear

When I was in baseball and you went into the clubhouse, you didn't see ball players with curling irons.
Red Barber

Baseball, Players, Clubhouse

The Term Paper Artist' represents two models of writing, one of the little boy bouncing his ball, generating stories for the sheer pleasure of it, and the besieged adult, writing to make a living, having to contend with a very competitive, very unreliable world in which public image counts.
David Leavitt

Writing, Two, Living

When they come here, what we are looking for them to do is step up to the plate, take responsibility and get the big innings, the centuries - or take a lead with the ball.
Andy Pick

Big, Here, Looking

Swing hard, in case they throw the ball where you're swinging.
Duke Snider

Hard, Throw, Swinging

In the split second from the time the ball leaves the pitcher's hand until it reaches the plate you have to think about your stride, your hip action, your wrist action, determine how much, if any the ball is going to break and then decide whether to swing at it.
Duke Snider

Time, Until, Action

But I don't really care for directors flaring up and trying to humble some actor, which they would do to try and make an example out of them so everybody else would stay on the ball - and David wasn't anything like that.
Richard Farnsworth

Care, Humble, Trying

Israel is one of the easiest places to play ball. When I say easy I am referring to the easy lifestyle an athlete has while in Israel. It's very easy to get around the country, because it's so small.
Michael Kennedy

Country, Small, Play

I always thought I could play pro ball. I had confidence in my ability, You have to. If you don't who will?
Johnny Unitas

Confidence, Thought, Play

If I can hit the ball the way I want to hit it on the range, I'd rather do that than play golf. I just love the feeling of hitting good golf shots.
Vijay Singh

Love, Good, Feeling

You never want to be the director who dropped the ball, you know?
David Yates

Director, Dropped

People call me Wayne Wonder and it also goes back to football because I could do mad skills with the ball and people would marvel and wonder how I could do it.
Wayne Wonder

Football, Mad, Call

We took our eye off the ball as a company.
Bill Ford

Off, Company, Took

Creating a character and living truthfully through her is a whole different ball game. It's all part of the same person but it's a much newer medium for me.
Taylor Dane

Character, Game, Person

We had an awfully good ball club that was capable of beating anybody. They were that good.
John Oldham

Good, Anybody, Capable

He hits it long. His shoulders are impressively quick through the ball. That's where he's getting his power from. He's young and has great elasticity.
Nick Faldo

Great, Power, Long

I've always wanted to tackle the casual part of dressing. Knits to me are always just easy. I've fantasized about packing a suitcase of only knits: You just throw them in, roll them in a ball, pull them out and they still look fabulous.
Nanette Lepore

Wanted, Easy, Fabulous

It was funny, when I thought of it afterward, how Ruth and Gehrig looked as they stood there. The Babe must have been waiting for me to get the ball up a little so he could get his bat under it.
Carl Hubbell

Funny, Waiting, Thought

If you're working with someone who you get on with and you're supposed to hate them on the screen, then you get this playful challenge thing where you're trying to one-up each other and that's really interesting. Sometimes it can become like tennis. The harder you hit the ball back, then the harder the hit it back to you.
Joseph Morgan

Hate, Someone, Trying

Sometimes, it's good to have a tremendous star, because everyone understands he has to get the ball.
Phil Simms

Good, Sometimes, Everyone

I throw the ball ninety-two miles an hour, but they hit it back just as hard.
Joaquin Andujar

Hard, Hit, Hour

If I was crazy, I'd throw the ball into the stands with the bases loaded. Now, that's crazy. If I was stupid, I'd throw the ball into center field with the bases loaded and a 3-2 count on the hitter. Now, that's stupid.
Joaquin Andujar

Crazy, Stupid, Throw

I lost the ball in the moon.
Hank Sauer

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

Game, Control, Run

I was always a little hesitant to accuse people of loading a bat to hit a ball farther. I was always very hesitant to approach people because I never had any evidence that I had firsthand knowledge of.
Joe Torre

Knowledge, Hit, Evidence

They have so fundamentally flawed techniques it's ridiculous. They shoot the ball flat. They all stand upright, there's just so many things they do incorrectly.
Rick Barry

Stand, Ridiculous, Flat

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

Long, Game, Before

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