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Basketball for me has always been a matter of rhythm - what you do bouncing the ball, how you bounce the ball, how you run, how you receive the ball to be in rhythm.
Earl Monroe

Basketball, Matter, Run

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

Hard, Hit, Hour

The cast called her Lucy, but everyone else called her Mrs. Ball. She was honest with people. If she liked you, you knew it. If she didn't, you knew it, also.
Keith Thibodeaux

Else, Honest, Everyone

In the very beginning whenever Mia Hamm or Brandi Chastain would call for the ball, I'd just give it to them immediately because it was them and I was nervous.
Heather O'Reilly

Give, Beginning, Call

People are talking of his susceptibility to the rising delivery, but let me tell you that when you are out of form, every ball looks like a hand grenade.
David Gower

Tell, Talking, Hand

I feel like, in a lot of shows where the woman is in charge, the woman is this ball buster and the guy is sort of weak and spineless. And that's never been my experience in a relationship. I think it's much more interesting that the guy is the boss. And there are stakes.
Whitney Cummings

Experience, Woman, Boss

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

Good, Anybody, Capable

My feelings, as the last ball travelled over the net, and as I realized that the final match was mine, I cannot describe. I felt that here was a prize for all the games I had ever played.
Helen Wills Moody

Feelings, Cannot, Here

The angle from which the line and ball are seen makes a tremendous difference in the call, and the player who is inclined to fret inwardly about decisions should realize this.
Helen Wills Moody

Decisions, Makes, Realize

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

Off, Company, Took

One of the biggest reasons I like coaching college ball is the kids. I feel I can impact players' lives. I like the fact that they're student-athletes. I like to see those kids graduate.
Rick Majerus

Kids, College, Fact

Back then, my idol was Bugs Bunny, because I saw a cartoon of him playing ball - you know, the one where he plays every position himself with nobody else on the field but him? Now that I think of it, Bugs is still my idol. You have to love a ballplayer like that.
Nomar Garciaparra

Love, Him, Else

The biggest threat to McDonald's lies within - and that is us as a company becoming complacent. There are a lot of companies that get fat, dumb and happy and take their eye off the ball and forget about serving customers.
Charlie Bell

Happy, Forget, Off

Fix your eye on the ball from the moment the pitcher holds it in his glove. Follow it as he throws to the plate and stay with it until the play is completed. Action takes place only where the ball goes.
Bill Klem

Play, Moment, Place

I lost the ball in the moon.
Hank Sauer

Hit the ball pretty solid. Haven't played a lot of golf this year, so was really unsure of what it would be like. I've been playing pretty well lately, especially hitting the ball solid.
Trent Dilfer

Pretty, Year, Playing

Growing up as a kid my father was British and a soccer player. His idol was a guy that passed the ball a lot, Stanley Matthews. Our family thought if you could be unselfish your teammates would always like you.
Adam Oates

Family, Father, Thought

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

Good, Sometimes, Everyone

I'm blessed to come from a family with five brothers. We're all physical and athletic and like to work out, like to be outside, like to throw the ball around. We spent our entire childhoods on some kind of corner or in a field. We still do a Turkey Bowl every Thanksgiving. It gets competitive, man. Bloody.
Danny Pino

Work, Family, Blessed

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

Game, Control, Run

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

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

A lot of the moves I make originate from futsal. It's played in a very small space, and the ball control is different in futsal. And to this day my ball control is pretty similar to a futsal player's control.
Ronaldinho

Control, Different, Small

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

I view my career like a rubber-band ball in that every role is a new experience building toward something bigger.
Jamie Chung

Experience, Career, View

Whenever we don't turn the ball over, we're pretty productive. When you're turning the ball over, you're cutting down on offensive opportunities.
Eric Snow

Down, Pretty, Turn

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

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

Love, Game, Big

I learned early on to never walk while I was on the ball field. I ran everywhere I went.
Enos Slaughter

Learned, While, Walk

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

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