“You don't let a guy put his hand on your chest, and put his foot on the ball and look into your eyes and tell you a bedtime story. No. sorry. He controlled the ball on his chest, step on it, look, see if someone was in the stands, take a coffee, turn, call his family, no one was answering, left a message, and then thought "Oh, I might cross the ball." He crossed it and they scored.” IfsLooksStoriesHandsMightEyeGuyTurnsLeftStepsFeetMessagesCrossesBallsSorryCoffeeControlledChestsBedtimeBedtime Stories Author:Thierry Henry
“Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.” RunningHappinessJoyFeetLaughterBalls Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“...and he crosses the line with the ball almost mesmerically tied to his foot with a piece of string.” LinesPiecesFeetFootballCrossesBallsStringsTiedCommentators Author:Ian Darke
“The ball was literally glued to the back of his foot - into the back of the net.” FeetFootballBallsCommentators Author:Alan Parry
“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.” ThinkingKidsWantedUsedGoalGrowing UpGrowingFeetBallsFatsSoccerGoalkeepersFat Kid Author:Hope Solo
“My first memories are from when I was very little, maybe three or four years old playing in my neighbourhood at home. I can picture myself with the ball at my feet from a very young age.” YearsFirstsLittlesI CanHomeAgeYoungThreeMemoriesFourFeetBallsFour YearsYoung AgeNeighbourhoods Author:Lionel Messi
“I saw a commercial for an above-ground pool, it was 30 seconds long. Because that's the maximum amount of time you can picture yourself having fun in an above-ground pool. If it was 31 seconds, the actor would say "The water is only up to here? What do I do now? Throw the ball back to Jimmy? Or put some goggles on and look at his feet?"” IfsLooksLongHumorFunnyActorsFunWaterSawsFeetAmountBallsHaving FunSecondsPoolMaximumJimmyGoggles Author:Mitch Hedberg
“At the age of five or six I just used to kick the ball with both feet. I wasn't very good to start with but I practised and practised. Once I finally got it, it was an unbelievable sensation. It was then that I realised that if you work at something, it pays off.” IfsAgeUsedPayFiveFeetSixBallsVery GoodKicksSensationsUnbelievableRealised Author:Filo Tiatia
“When the ball was last seen crossing the roof of the stand in deep right field at 315 feet, we wonder whether new baseballs conversing together in the original package ever remark: "Join Ruth and see the world."” WorldTogetherLastsWonderFeetFieldsBaseballBallsOriginalsRoofPackagesRemarksCrossingsRuth Author:Heywood Broun
“My leg was made for kicking things. Doesn't matter the circumstance, style or formation. It's all about putting your foot on the right spot of the ball and letting your leg velocity do the rest.” MadeMatterFeetStyleCircumstancesBallsLegsSpotsFormationKickingVelocity Author:Pat McAfee
“I need to have the ball at my feet. That's when I know anything is possible.” KnowsNeedsFeetBallsAnything Is Possible Author:Freddy Adu
“I love the slider. I'll throw it anytime. It helps the curve. The last five feet, it dives toward the left-handed hitter's box. It's a pitch that looks like a fastball coming in. It's a pitch I throw when I need a ground ball with a man on base.” MenNeedsLooksHelpingLastsLeftFiveFeetBallsBoxesCurvesLeft HandedFastballs Author:Kerry Wood
“I don't try to hit the ball 500 feet. It looks good when you hit it 500 feet, but as long as it goes over the fence, it's a home run. When you swing hard, it takes a little bit of recognition away from you. The power you're trying to increase - you're not all the way through it with your vision.” WayTryingLooksLittlesLongHardHomeRunningBitsVisionFeetLittle BitBallsIncreaseRecognitionSwingsFenceAway From YouHome Run Author:David Ortiz
“The pitch would normally be low, but my ball starts carrying and stays on a sustained plane. Everyone always complains - 'that ball is low' - but then you go back and look at the tape, and it's right there. My catchers tell me, and the hitters tell me, that the ball stays true flight the last five or six feet.” LooksLastsFiveFeetSixLowsBallsComplainingFlightPlanesTapeStay TrueCatchers Author:Roy Oswalt
“That was something that I learned from Alan Ball from “Six Feet Under." He didn”t really like to have too many pop culture references because they don”t really hold up after a few years.” YearsCultureFeetSixBallsPopsPop CultureSix Feet Under Author:Jill Soloway
“I played on the boy's teams until I was 12. I just loved it and had a passion for it. You couldn't get a soccer ball away from my foot.” PassionBoysTeamFeetBallsSoccerSoccer Ball Author:Lauren Holiday
“It felt like I'd been playing second-string football for a long time, when, suddenly, I was playing in the Super Bowl. Even when 'Basic Instinct' was a hit, I still felt like I was running with that ball toward the end zone. It took awhile for me to realize that I was already in the end zone with the ball down and the crowd screaming on its feet.” LongStillsEndsRunningFeltRealizingFeetFootballLong TimeBallsDown AndInstinctCrowdsZoneStringsBowlsSuper Bowl Author:Sharon Stone
“We used a racquetball and threw it off the wall as hard as we could, then tracked it down with our eyes and feet. Nike has new balls that bounce all sorts of different directions and really help you learn to track the ball and move your feet to react quickly.” DifferentHardHelpingEyeMovingUsedFeetWallBallsTrackBounceDifferent DirectionsNikeOff The WallRacquetball Author:Antonio Cromartie
“The hardest thing for a basketball player to do is dribble two really hard dribbles. You are flying, and then pull up and shoot a ball from 15, 17 feet. It's the hardest thing in the game.” TwoHardGamesPlayerFeetBasketballBallsFlyingHardestHardest ThingBasketball PlayerPull UpsDribble Author:John Calipari
“You will be nearer to Heaven through foot ball than through study of Gita.” HeavenStudyFeetBallsGita Author:Swami Vivekananda
“When I was playing college football, they would take the football team to a ballet school. We would learn to do tour jete's to prepare us when you are running in pursuit to tackle a ball carrier and you get hit, or somebody comes from another angle. This way you can spin away from the hit and your foot is out so you can go right into your run - basically, it pushed us toward the tackle. There's a good tweet: "Take ballet - it will push you towards the tackle."” WayRunningSchoolTeamFeetFootballCollegeBallsPursuitBalletAngleTweetFootball TeamCarrierCollege Football Author:Gary Busey
“God's will is clear about many things. We're to be holy. I like the metaphor that his Word is a lamp to our feet. A lamp may help guide my next one or two steps, but it's not a crystal ball into the future.” MayTwoHelpingNextStepsClearFeetHolyBallsMetaphorGuidesGods WillLampsCrystalsCrystal Ball Author:Craig Groeschel
“Irish music is guts, balls and feet music, yeah? It's frenetic dance music, yeah? Or it's impossibly sad like slow music, yeah? Yeah? And it also handles all sorts of subjects, from rebel songs to comical songs about sex, you know what I mean, yeah? Which I don't think people realize how much innuendo there is in Irish music.” PeopleThinkingKnowsMeanSongSexRealizingFeetSubjectsMusic IsBallsYeahHandleGutsRebelComicalDance MusicInnuendoIrish Music Author:Shane MacGowan
“Money is not a motivating factor. Money doesn't thrill me or make me play better because there are benefits to being wealthy. I'm just happy with a ball at my feet. My motivation comes from playing the game I love. If I wasn't paid to be a professional footballer I would willingly play for nothing.” IfsPlayMotivationGamesFeetFootballBenefitsBallsPaidFactorsWealthyThrillFootballer Author:Lionel Messi
“When you see grown men near to tears because they've missed hitting a little white ball into a hole from three feet, it makes you laugh.” MenLittlesThreeWhiteLaughingFeetTearsBallsHolesHittingMake You LaughGrown Man Author:Bill Murray