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“I still say if the ball is there to be won I will go for it, whether with my head or whatever, and if it means us scoring or stopping a goal, I won't think twice.”

Ifs Thinking Mean Stills Goal Balls Stopping Think Twice

Author:John Terry

“I can score the basketball, but I think I can pass pretty well or I can make the correct pass. I'm not the type of guy who's just going to throw the ball inbounds to a guy who's wide open. I can make the right pass.”

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Author:Kevin Durant

“I feel good doing it. It's not like guys are stripping me at half-court or I'm just losing the ball dribbling. I think I'm handling the ball pretty well, just trying to make good passes, man.”

Thinking Men Feels Trying Wells Guy Half Losing Balls Court Feel Good I Feel Good Stripping

Author:Kevin Durant

“What do you imagine the American people would think of me if I wasted my time going to the ball game?”

People Ifs Thinking Games Imagine Balls My Time Think Of Me Ball Games Wasted My Time

Author:Grover Cleveland

“I was very focused, driven, rigid, work-oriented. I didn't care about having a family or making a home. I didn't think about kids. It's not that I didn't want those things, I just didn't think about them. And then I had someone who came in as a tornado, this creative, beautiful ball of insane energy and passion. And it completely opened me up.”

Thinking Want Home Care Kids Beautiful Passion Energy Creative Balls Focused Driven Insane Tornadoes

Author:Susan Downey

“I'm really not interested in other people's opinions, because I think frankly most of those opinions are either misinformed and adding to this endless ball of hot air we have in our society where everyone thinks their opinion is valuable and sacred and what counts.”

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Author:Buzz Bissinger

“When I'm naked, I really like to do push-ups. No. I think I really tackle it like everything else. If you're going to commit yourself to playing something, you have to be able to understand it. If you can understand it, then you can do it and go balls out with it. But, I've never been in a position where I've been like, "This doesn't feel right." I wouldn't do it, if it was that. I like the shock value of it. I think that, if you use it correctly, it's pretty effective, as long as I'm lit really, really, really well.”

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Author:Charlize Theron

“I think I play center field better than I do anywhere else. I have enough speed and enough reaction to know where the ball goes off the bat.”

Thinking Knows Enough Play Fields Balls Speed Reactions Bats Center Field

Author:Bryce Harper

“Everyone thinks I'm this jock of a woman, but I didn't play any sports. I didn't even let my kids play baseball because I was afraid they were going to get hit by balls.”

Thinking Play Kids Sports Baseball Balls Jocks

Author:Patti Hansen

“I played sometimes about as dull as you can play it. I did things the right way, you know. I think I modeled my playing ability after one of the all time greats, Joe DiMaggio. You always found Joe, when he played, you know, he always threw to the right base. He ran, he caught the ball. He did all the right things. He was an idol of mine in the outfield. He played the game the way it was supposed to be played.”

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Author:Hank Aaron

“I really think more about being honest and truthful about feelings and how people behave for the movies that I direct, but I also love movies like Zohan and Anchorman, just balls to the wall, how much can you make people laugh in one 90 minute period.”

People Thinking Feelings Laughing Minutes Honest Wall Periods Direct Balls Being Honest Behave Truthful Making People Laugh Movie Love Anchorman Balls To The Wall

Author:Judd Apatow

“If you put a pistol against my head and ask which I think is worse, Muslims or Mexicans, I'd have to think a moment, then I'd say the Muslims because they've broken my balls.”

Ifs Thinking Moments Asks Broken Balls Pistols

Author:Oriana Fallaci

“[George W. Bush] has balls. And he's a leader. Unfortunately his balls and leadership are in the service of shitty ideas. We need his balls on someone who thinks right.”

Thinking Needs Ideas Leader Balls

Author:Bill Maher

“Were a stranger to drop on a sudden into this world, I would show him, as a specimen of its ills, a hospital full of diseases, a prison crowded with malefactors and debtors, a field of battle strewed with carcasses, a fleet foundering in the ocean, a nation languishing under tyranny, famine, or pestilence. To turn the gay side of life to him, and give him a notion of its pleasures; whither should I conduct him? to a ball, to an opera, to court? He might justly think, that I was only showing him a diversity of distress and sorrow.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)

“Hitting. That's what I enjoy most. Realistically, it's probably the hardest thing to do in all of sport. Think about it. You've got a round ball, a round bat, and the object is to hit it square.”

Thinking Sports Enjoy Objects Balls Rounds Hardest Things To Do Squares Hitting Bats Hardest Thing Hardest Thing To Do

Author:Pete Rose

“The best have the courage and I say this all the time. The courage to take the ball all the time, the courage to make sure that they are not going to be intimidated by their opponents, and the courage to express themselves at all times and I think that all the great players have got that.”

Thinking Player Balls All Time Opponents Intimidated

Author:Alex Ferguson

“Playing on turf affects everything, you know, it affects the way the ball rolls, it affects the way the ball bounces, it affects the way you think about whether or not going into a slide. It's kind of a nightmare.”

Thinking Knows Way Kind Balls Nightmare Slides Bounce Turf

Author:Abby Wambach

“I lived in a town called New Canaan, which is just outside of Connecticut, where they are far too snobby to even mention celebrities. Many American towns are famous for things like, "See the World's Largest Ball of String!" I think my town's would probably have to be "Most Pretentious People".”

People Thinking World Balls Towns Strings Pretentious Connecticut Snobby

Author:Katherine Heigl

“What would people think of a tradesman, that was to give a ball in his shop, hire performers, and hand refreshments about, with a view to benefit his business?”

People Thinking Giving Hands Views Benefits Balls Shops Performers Refreshments

Book:A treatise on political economy: or, The production, distribution and consumption of wealth

Source: A treatise on political economy: or, The production, distribution and consumption of wealth

“Buffon is a gentleman thinking only of the ball [after Gianluigi Buffon's strong tackle on Andy Carroll during a friendly with Newcastle”

Thinking Strong Balls Gentleman Friendly Newcastle Buffon

Author:Claudio Ranieri

“Guns do not make you a killer. I think killing makes you a killer. You can kill someone with a baseball bat or a car, but no one is trying to ban you from driving to the ball game.”

Thinking Trying Games Car Gun Baseball Balls Killing Driving Killers Bats Bans Ball Games

Author:Andy Rooney

“This new baseball is like a golf ball. I think there are going to be a lot more dents put in the wall at Fenway Park this year.”

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Author:Don Zimmer

“After I won 21 games, I said, "This isn't that hard actually. I can do this every year for maybe 10, 15 years." To tell you the truth I thought I was going to be in the Hall of Fame. I really thought that. You feel so strong, so powerful walking down the street. You know you can throw a ball harder than any man in the world, or certainly the top five. Sandy Koufax knocked all of us out of the box on that one, so we would think, "I'm the second or third hardest thrower in the game."”

“I truly believe my job starts the minute I leave the baseball field. Going out and catching ground balls and hitting, that's a job, and that's what I've wanted to do ever since I was a kid. But when you think about leaving that field, that's when the job and the demands really start. In New York, Seattle, every city. The community, the media, business stuff. You have to stay on a narrow path.”

Thinking Believe Kids Wanted Jobs Stuff Sports Community Cities Path Minutes Media New York Fields Demand Baseball Balls Leaving Hitting Going Out Catching Seattle Narrow Path Baseball Field

Author:Alex Rodriguez

“So along with that is spending a lot of time with the ball. For me it was, I loved to juggle the ball in my front yard, and I always challenged myself - how many juggles can I get today? I think for players to get better, it's just about spending the time.”

Thinking Today Sports Player Fronts Balls Spending Get Better Yards

Author:Brandi Chastain

“I think we match up with anybody because our pitching. In a short series you run your big three out there or four out there. That generally is what wins a series - pitching and defense. If we can catch the ball and not give away any runs like we do sometimes.”

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Author:Dusty Baker

“I tell you what, I was so shocked because I didn't think the ball had enough to get out. It's an absolutely incredible feeling. I can honestly say I did it.”

Thinking I Can Enough Feelings Sports Balls Incredibles Honestly Shocked Had Enough

Author:Mark McGwire

“Well I loved Little League; so all the memories are pretty fond but I broke my thumb. That wasn't a lot of fun. I think probably the first time I pitched [I started out as a first baseman] and the first game I pitched in Little League, I struck out 10 batters. I had a curve ball a little early [laughs]. You're not really supposed to have one when you're 12, but I did, so I first game I struck out 10 batters. That's possibly my fondest memory.”

Thinking Firsts Wells Littles Games Fun Memories Laughing First Time Balls Broke League Curves Thumbs Little League

Author:Billy Bob Thornton

“The crowd think that Todd handled the ball...they must have seen something that nobody else did.”

Thinking Football Balls Crowds Commentators

Author:Barry Davies

“I think the new ball is terrible. It's the worst decision some expert, whoever did it, made. It's terrible. It's like touching an exotic dancer and then going and touching a plastic blow-up doll. You know, it feels different.”

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Author:Shaquille O'Neal

“I think that gambling is a synthetic experience and that if you have any balls you gamble with your life. I have. So can everybody else.”

Ifs Thinking Balls Gambling Gamble Synthetic

Author:William Monahan

“I think it's very, very tough to compare postseason and in-season, just for the simple fact that there's the heightened levels of energy on both sides of the ball.”

Thinking Facts Energy Sides Simple Levels Tough Seasons Balls Compare Both Sides Postseason

Author:Ndamukong Suh

“Let me put it this way: I think Republicans tend to keep the ball in play, Democrats go for broke.”

Thinking Way Play Sports Republican Let Me Balls Democrat Broke

Author:Arthur Ashe

“I've always said it takes more courage to stand back there and throw a ball knowing you're fixing to get drilled than anything I can think of in football.”

Thinking Said I Can Knowing Football Balls Nfl Fixing

Author:Bobby Bowden

“I played soccer all my life and I used to think growing up that they put the fat kid in goal or they put the kid that wasn't good with the ball at their feet in goal and I never wanted to do goalkeeper, I was always the goal scorer.”

Thinking Kids Wanted Used Goal Growing Up Growing Feet Balls Fats Soccer Goalkeepers Fat Kid

Author:Hope Solo

“Women work overtime, do double triple duty, juggle ten balls at once -- children, careers, husbands, schoolwork, housework, church work, and more work -- and when one of the balls drops, we think something is wrong with us.”

Thinking Children Church Careers Duty Ten Husband Balls Housework Schoolwork

Author:Susan L. Taylor

“I have a theory about American men -- I think they think women are boys who don't know how to throw a ball very well. American women are forced into the role of being men without penises, of being men who haven't quite been able to make it. If women don't want to be pussycats, then they get forced into the role of being almost as good as men. Which is lousy.”

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Author:Anne Beatts

“I chase a little white ball around and work on my farmer tan, that's about it. I think that I've been lucky enough to represent some great companies, and I think maybe that's what it is.”

Thinking Littles Enough White Company Lucky Balls Farmers Great Company

Author:Tiger Woods

“There's only, I think, in life, three things that I do pretty well: Performing, I still can field ground balls, and I make nice kids.”

Thinking Wells Stills Kids Three Nice Fields Balls Performing Three Things

Author:Billy Crystal

“I like to think there are a lot of balls in the air, and the kids are not one that I choose to drop. They have been a priority and I have a career that allows for a little more flexibility at times and hours that are quite mom-friendly.”

Thinking Littles Has Beens Kids Hours Careers Air Mom Balls Priorities Friendly Flexibility

Author:Elisabeth Hasselbeck

“The day I think about throwing the ball away at the beginning of a play, I should stop playing.”

Thinking Should Play Balls Throwing

Author:Robert Griffin III

“I've never had my dexterity called into question, but I think if that was ever the case, I could acquit myself by tossing a ball back and forth horizontally between my hands.”

Ifs Thinking Hands Cases Balls Back And Forth Dexterity

Author:Sonia Sotomayor

“About the time you think you are getting to know the moves in this game, someone comes along and does everything but undress you on the basketball floor. Standing there under the basket with your hands cupped - and finding that you dont have the ball in them - is a great little old leveler.”

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Author:Tom Heinsohn

“Opportunities are running out, and this is the do-or-die situation when the ball is in your hands, and you can either help your team to victory or not. And so I want to be in those situations. I think about them, and almost look forward to them.”

Thinking Want Looks Helping Hands Running Dies Opportunity Situation Team Victory Balls

Author:Eli Manning

“The main thing you worry about is just coming up with songs at all. I don't sit down and write stuff like certain writers do. They think about what they are going to write first and then they write it. I just get what comes in at me. It's like I'm a musician and if I can keep my mitt on, I can catch the balls that come at me.”

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Author:Steven Tyler

“I think a mantra I always told myself is, "No matter how many times somebody pitches the ball at you, if you swing every time, eventually one of them is going to connect." Being yourself and persistence are two things that became my daily mantras, I suppose.”

Ifs Thinking Two Matter Balls Persistence Two Things Being Yourself Swings Mantras

Author:Jamie Bell

“I have no physical genius about me. I cant dribble a ball and run at the same time, I cant do lay-ups - Im not an athlete. But my experience as a kid was, I was made fun of so much that what I did then, is, I wouldnt participate. And I think I cheated myself out of a lot of fun.”

Thinking Made Running Kids Fun Genius Balls Lays Athlete Cant Cheated Dribble I Cheated

Author:Rich Mullins

“With any kind of physical test, I don't know what it is, I always seem to get competitive. Remember when you were in school and they'd do those hearing tests? And you'd really be listening hard, you know? I wanted to do unbelievable on the hearing test. I wanted them to come over to me after and go, 'We think you may have something close to super-hearing. What you heard was a cotton ball touching a piece of felt. We're sending the results to Washington, we'd like you to meet the President.'”

Thinking Knows Kind May Hard Seems Wanted School Remember Felt President Results Pieces Heard Like You Listening Tests Balls Hearing Touching Unbelievable Remember When Cotton

Author:Jerry Seinfeld

“Being a good teammate is when you try to sprint down a ball that everyone thinks is going out of bounds. But you go after it anyways and you get it.”

Thinking Trying Sports Balls Bounds Going Out Teammate Sprint

Author:Mia Hamm

“If you owe money, you can't pay them out. You just pay for everything, you do smart things, you eventually get very rich. If you do smart things and use leverage and do one wrong thing along the way, it could wipe you out, because anything times zero is zero. But it's reinforcing when the people around you are doing it successfully, you're doing it successfully, and it's a lot like Cinderella at the ball. [...] And everybody thinks they're going to leave at two minutes to 12.”

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Author:Howard Warren Buffett

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