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Letter "B" » ball game
«Football is a simple game based on the giving and taking of passes, of controlling the ball and of making yourself available to receive a pass. It is terribly simple.»
Author: Bill Shankly
(Manager, Soccer Player)
| Keywords:
ball game, controlling, passing game, terribly
«It's a great day for a ball game; let's play two!»
Author: Ernie Banks
| Keywords:
ball game
«If profanity had an influence on the flight of the ball, the game of golf would be played far better than it is.»
Author: Horace G. Hutchinson
| Keywords:
ball game, Ball games, flight, golf, golfing, golf ball, golf game, played, profanity
«Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball.»
Author: Jim Murray
(Writer)
| About:
Baseball
| Keywords:
anywhere, ball game, Ball games, baseball game, curve, curved, curve ball, curving, legal, On The Ball, optical, optical illusion, pitch, pitches, pitch in, pitch into, screwball, screwballs, spat, spit, spits, spitted, spitting, spit out, stealing, umpire, umpired, Umpiring
«Common sense always speaks too late. Common sense is the guy who tells you ought to have had your brakes relined last week before you smashed a front end this week. Common sense is the Monday morning quarterback who could have won the ball game if he had been on the team. But he never is. He's high up in the stands with a flask on his hip. Common sense is the little man in a gray suit who never makes a mistake in addition. But it's always somebody else's money he's adding up.»
«Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.»
Author: Salman Rushdie
(Writer)
| About:
Speech
| Keywords:
ball game, Ball games, free speech, whole thing
«Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.»
Author: Woodrow T. Wilson
(President)
| About:
Golf
| Keywords:
adapted, ball game, Ball games, endeavors, golf ball, implemented, implementing, implements
«It is a noteworthy fact that kicking and beating have played so considerable a part in the habits which necessity has imposed on mankind in past ages that the only way of preventing civilized men from beating and kicking their wives is to organize games in which they can kick and beat balls.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
ages, balls, ball game, Ball games, beat, beating, civilized, considerable, games, imposed, kick, kicking, noteworthy, organize, played, preventing, wives
«Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
and others, ball game, Ball games, no ball, stamp
«Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| About:
Funny,
Golf,
Sports
| Keywords:
ball, ball game, Ball games, designed, golf ball, golf game, hole, singularly, smaller
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