Quotes About Ball

Football is magic for me: it is a special feeling every time I walk out on to the pitch and touch the ball. That is how I would define what magic is.

What you can never do on a slow pitch is bowl with any width. If you bowl straight it's almost impossible to get the ball away.

Maybe I'm biased because I'm a pitcher, but I think that's pretty cool that a guy can throw a ball 100 miles an hour.

All my life, growing up in the church, I always planned on going on a mission. There are certain missions where you get a chance to play ball. If I get one of those, great. But I'm going where they want me to go. I'll mature, and not just physically.

A lot of these catchers don't understand that they are blocking the plate and they don't have the ball. You're not allowed to block the plate without the ball.

If I'm not going to make the pitch, then so be it. I'm not going to try to manipulate the ball or muscle the ball over the plate where I want it to go.

There are some who when they play football they carry the ball ta-ta-ta, but they are jugglers not footballers. The less you have the ball at your feet the better.

Cruyff's idea was, quite literally, to play football - nothing more, nothing less. His idea of how football should be played was based not on controlling the opponent, but on the ball and the game.

Normally, I play in midfield where I'm challenging the players and trying to take the ball.

I like to create chances, to shoot when I play farther forward, but I also like playing deeper, as you have more time on the ball.

In the pocket, I usually keep two hands on the ball.

I've got to have two hands on the ball when I'm leaving the pocket, when I'm moving in the pocket.

Magic Johnson is one of the greatest players to ever play... he's the best point guard to ever play, so I can learn a lot of things from him.

I avoided as much work as possible in the classroom, but did all the work possible on the ball field.

I like it when I am in the middle; I am closer to the ball. The manager wants me to pass, to make assists, create chances, and I do more because I think the position is more central, and I don't ask all the time for the ball at my feet.

As a competitor, as an athlete, you want the ball to come to you.

We have to cut out some of our mistakes, but the main thing in English football is controlling the second ball. Without that, you cannot survive.

The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball.

We want to swing the ball as much as we can. We try and get it to reverse, putting more sweat on one side and things like that. But we don't cheat.

I very rarely watch anybody swing. All I do is follow where the ball goes.

I just try to make contact with the ball. It's obvious that I like to swing the bat. I'm not thinking of taking a lot of pitches.

At the heart of every slice is an open clubface. And it usually goes with a steep swing that cuts across the ball from out to in.

I don't know if the goal is necessarily to hit the ball in the air; I think when my swing is right it just happens on its own.

Some guys talk about swinging through the ball, but I think about impact like hammering a nail. My dad actually had me hammer nails to understand the concept.