Famous Quotes & Sayings

Maria Sharapova

She tried to mix it up a little at the end of the first set and I knew it would be physically harder. Mentally, I told myself it doesn't matter how many balls it takes, you're going to do everything possible to get one more ball back.

She was hitting balls very deep. I tried to go to the net, which is my game, but I just couldn't do that.

Kim Clijsters

She's probably the best defending player out there at the moment, ... She's very fit. She just has this incredible touch with her hands, especially with her slice. I mean, she can just keep getting those balls back.

She's got a lot of rise balls and people were swinging at them. I was trying to lay off them.

Richard Simmons

When you gather up all the balls of life that you try to juggle, it is a very difficult thing to try to focus in on taking good care of yourself. But that's why God invented me - so I can come and teach and preach and make people laugh and give them some education so they can start liking themselves better.

Ernie Els

For all the fun, don't forget: I always knew when to put my golf balls down and practice.

We didn't pound the ball. We just hit a lot of ground balls and flares. But we got the job done.

We didn't play well in terms of our passing and the spacing of our players. We used too many long balls and missed on too many chances (to score). I'm concerned about the spacing because too many times the second attacker wasn't there.

Phil Garner

We got on the field and got some work done, a lot of ground balls and fly balls. We got those skills taken care of today. We missed our fundamentals but we'll still be able to double up (today) and get back on track.

We didn't do anything different (on defense). We continue to try to work and enhance our pass rush. I think we've improved there. We got on top of some balls that got away from Drew and we made some plays on them.

Bits and pieces flung into the universe, sticking in the sky like cotton balls on a jet black velcro surface.

We still had a chance in both games (in the last inning) to get out of it with double plays when we got ground balls and just didn't come through.

Those were the first two balls ever hit to me. It's cool. It's different. I never played outfield before.

Sid Waddell

I'm the world's worst after-dinner speaker. I need pictures to respond to. I was the voice of the lottery balls once and got the sack.

Allen Iverson

One of the things you have to learn is that you don't have to have the ball all the time to be effective.

When you're playing well, you seem to be thinking better. I thought I was thinking better when I hit those balls over the green on 4 and 5. That's what happens when the winds start swirling around here.

Lauren Bacall

I wasn't brought up as a society girl to go to balls and be a debutante and marry the social set and money and go to parties. No one in my family lived like that. And I never wanted to live like that. I was brought up to believe in work. I always wanted a career. Always.

We played well both offensively and defensively, but they weren't that bad. They were very scrappy, and they kept a lot of balls up. Our defense held us up --we were 28-for-30 passing as a team.

We had some huge hits. (Curtis, Williams) were our eight and nine hitters, who just stayed in there and battled. A lot of balls had eyes for us. It just must have been our day.

We had some hits but we couldn't get that clutch to get things going and score some runs. We didn't hit it to the right part of the park. Our deep balls were hit to left and the deepest part in right center.

Russell Branyan

Yeah, but still, this is the big leagues. I've got no excuses. ... I haven't been on that dirt in a while. It makes it tough reading balls off the bat. I still should make that play. I'm a lot better player than that.

Seve Ballesteros

Yeah, but I'll be working as a marshal. I'll be helping your team find all the balls they drive into the rough.

We played well I was real pleased. Danielle had an excellent game, a real solid game. Won a lot of balls and got our offense going.

We didn't come out ready to play. It's unlike us to kick balls around like that. And when you hit that many batters, it's tough to win.

We didn't really play doubles the way we know how. We were out there just hitting balls at certain points, not really trying to utilize our strategy. We need to learn to stick with what is working in a match until the opposition proves that those methods aren't working. That's something we really need to get after in practice.

We're not very well coached. We're not working hard enough on keeping control of the ball. We get something going and drop the football. Then we don't catch a few balls that could have broken it open.

Dusty Baker

We're not taking anything away from the young guys, but early spring is for the young. I said the other day, the young hit fastballs now, but they hit two breaking balls out. Those weren't quality breaking balls, but you've got to hit those if you are going to hit. I've got to give them some props for not missing them.

Adam Baldwin

If I’m gonna get my balls blown off for a word, my word is poontang.

Aleksandar Hemon

The balls do not make a writer.

We worked harder and we wanted it more. Down to the end, people were diving for balls and getting on the floor.

We work all the time on catching balls in traffic like that. You know you're probably gonna get hit and have to pay the price, so why not catch the ball.

We didn't swing at as many balls in the dirt. We were more disciplined today. It's tough to get a good swing on a ball out of the strike zone.

Adrian Peterson

I can catch the ball. You've got to throw it to me.