You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the damn plate and five the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all.
Earl Weaver

The key step for an infielder is the first one, to the left or right, but before the ball is hit.
Earl Weaver

My entire life has been an attempt to get back to the kind of feelings you have on a field. The sense of brotherhood, the esprit de corps, the focus - there being no past or future, just the ball. As trite as it sounds, I was happiest playing ball.
David Duchovny

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

I like reading Ball Tongue lyrics and all that stuff. And they published a book, and I wouldn't give my lyrics, and it's all wrong in the book, and I giggle. It's funny.
Jonathan Davis

But, at the moment, when I step on the pitch, when I have the ball I know it's mine. It's just a feeling.
Thierry Henry

I wanted to definitely be a musician or a good preacher or a heck of a baseball player. I couldn't play ball too good - I hurt my finger, and I stopped that. I couldn't preach, and well, all I had left was getting into the music thing.
Muddy Waters

I broke my nose in gym when a ball hit me. I took a girl to her debutante ball the next week wearing a tux and a big, honking bandage. Not the romantic night she had in mind.
Wentworth Miller

I have absolutely no idea what my generation did to enrich our democracy. We dropped the ball. We entered a period of complacency and closed our eyes to the public corruption of our democracy.
Wynton Marsalis

Almost any game with any ball is a good game.
Robert Lynd

When I play ball, I play hardball.
Kirstie Alley

I lost the ball in the moon.
Hank Sauer

The man with the ball is responsible for what happens to the ball.
Branch Rickey

I had a ball doing Harry Potter.
Fiona Shaw

Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase.
Charles Caleb Colton

I'm always amazed when a pitcher becomes angry at a hitter for hitting a home run off him. When I strike out, I don't get angry at the pitcher, I get angry at myself. I would think that if a pitcher threw up a home run ball, he should be angry at himself.
Willie Stargell

People like us are afraid to leave ball. What else is there to do? When baseball has been your whole life, you can't think about a future without it, so you hang on as long as you can.
Willie Stargell

By that time I was thinking a little about pro ball and hopeful that someone would draft me.
Jack Youngblood

They give you a round bat and they throw you a round ball and they tell you to hit it square.
Willie Stargell

It's supposed to be fun, the man says 'Play Ball' not 'Work Ball' you know.
Willie Stargell