Quotes About Ball

When I made my debut in 1994-95 I bowled big outswingers pretty much every ball, because people had told me you should bowl consistent outties to take wickets.

I just think that the biggest thing with decision-making is knowing that the defense is making you check the ball down or knowing that the defense is baiting you to do something you're not supposed to be doing, but making it look good so that you can try it.

I'm not a player to defend or run around. I want the ball.

Academy wingers always pick up the ball and then cut inside or lay it off. No one runs at players like I do, or gets to the back stick and overpowers a defender.

I don't think the physical part of English football would be a problem. When you get the ball, you need to be ready. The defenders here are very tough. I like that.

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

Defense all starts with the ball and the rim-protector is the last resort, the last line of defense. I take pride in that.

I'll be running, the ball will be in the air and I'll feel like I've been in that moment before. It's basically deja vu, like an active deja vu, I guess you could say.

I don't think I have accuracy problems. I do think when my feet aren't set, I deliver a different type of ball.

Just the ball completely being destroyed in 60 overs is not something that you experience as a Test side and any side could be prepared for.

I played at RB Leipzig from 2013 to 2015, and my coach was Alexander Zorniger. He was a coach who was very focused on the details. He did a lot of analytics and we were focused at Leipzig on the play against the ball.

Drogba is more of a hold-up player, a target man. I prefer to have ball to feet and run in behind.

If I get a target, I want the ball in my hands.

Having targets is really fun but catching the ball is even more fun.

It often seemed like we had become a nation where the only heroes were rock singers and ball players and that there were no large men of probity who could be called upon for the task.

Now you've been in the playoffs once, you know what it tastes like, you know what it feels like. You know, going through the season when Coach is preaching physicality, how hard you gotta play, how you gotta take care of the ball, why he's saying that. Because all that comes into play in playoff basketball.

Street football features all the basics of football: you get a lot of touches on the ball, it is fast, teaches you to think quickly and to be creative.

Against Chelsea, you will have periods in the game when you are right up against it, when they keep the ball. They are pretty solid the way they set their team up.

If I don't get the service or if I don't the ball in the box, where I want it, I start drifting into midfield. I go and look for the ball. I try to be important for the team in other areas.

It's a team game, but you've got to have individuals that really want the ball and want the pressure of being there to help get in a position to win.

To be able to pitch in the postseason is great, and to be able to go out there and throw the ball well and help your team win is a great feeling.

When I left college ball, I think I was prepared to coach a team, but I don't think I was prepared to help the team win.

Anytime I get the opportunity to get the ball, I just want to make good plays and help my team win the game and just create big plays.

I was stealing the ball from all the guys. Every time they dribbled the ball, I used to take it, and I'd go down the court, and I'd either lay it up myself, or I'd pass it to one of my teammates. I was getting a lot of excitement from that; I felt good about doing that.