He's showed him the left leg, then the right. Where's the ball, the defender asks? It's up his sleeve.
I like triples-when I hit a ball in the gap, all I think about is a triple.
We just played unselfishly. At times this year, we've played selfish, but today we passed the ball. . . . We were just very supportive of each other.
Out here, it's just you and the ball.
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.
Three things can happen when you throw the ball, and two of them are bad.
I hadn't played that much before, and it was all about practicing with the University of Texas coaches. It's takes some expert to look at me pitching a ball and saying, 'we have to find the mother f**ker in you, boy!'
I remember the Chillicothe ballplayers grappling the Long Island ball players in a sixteen-inning game ended by darkness. And the shoulders of the Chillicothe players were a red smoke against the sundown and the shoulders of the Rock Island players were a yellow smoke against the sundown. And the umpire's voice was hoarse calling balls and strikes and outs and the umpire's throat fought in the dust for a song.
It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square.
Society indeed conspires to keep you ball and chained.
I won't be active in the day-to-day operations of the ball club at all.
When you write, you take the ball and you hold it up to the light and you turn it slowly, and let people draw their own conclusions. And try to bring empathy to all sides of the equation.
I can't play any more. I can't hit the ball when I need to. I can't steal second when I need to. I can't go from first to third when I need to. I can't score from second when I need to. I have to quit.
I bowl so slowly that if I don't like a ball I can run after it and bring it back
A good friend of mine was Lucy Ball. Her mother and my mother were best friends.
I'm a selfish football player. Each time the ball is snapped, I tell myself that I want to make that tackle, make that big play.
A ball bat is a wondrous weapon.
I reached this level by sheer dint of hard work, toiling away at scores of tricks and experiments. I used to play with the ball from dawn till dusk and just kept practising. If I wasn't playing matches, it was trying out one on one or two against two with a tennis ball. Then I used to try aiming at certain targets. That's the only way to learn. And if I missed the target, I kept trying until I scored
It's not about the long ball or the short ball, it's about the right ball.
You fight and fight. Get every ball back, run every ball down and never, ever doubt.