Clive James
Writer
"Whoever called snooker "chess with balls" was rude, but right."
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Jay-Z
Rapper, Businessman
"Niggas pray and pray on my downfall, But every time I hit the ground I bounce up like round ball"
Lewis Hamilton
Formula One Driver
"If you don't have the balls to brake late, that's your problem."
Clive James
Writer
"Snooker is just chess with balls."
Serena Williams
Tennis Player
"Growing up I wasn't the richest, but I had a rich family in spirit. Standing here with 19 championships is something I never thought would happen. I went on a court just with a ball and a racket and with a hope."
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"I went on the courts with just a ball and a racket and a hope...and that's all I had."
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"One of the things you have to learn is that you don't have to have the ball all the time to be effective."
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"The only thing in this world that gives orders is balls."
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"I never get tired of running. The ball ain't that heavy."
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"My dad used to wake me up at 5:30 in the morning and hit me ground balls and tell me, 'Don't be afraid to excel. Don't be afraid to be great.'"
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"If I can hit a curveball, why can't I hit a ball that is standing still on a course?"
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"Hitting the ball is the fun part of it, but the fewer times you hit the ball the more fun you have."
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"A rebounder, or a shot-blocker for that matter, is always at a disadvantage if he tells himself the only way he can succeed is by out jumping the guy next to him. Sometimes he will have to, but most of the time he will not. Most of my rebounds came from positioning, where I was able to get the ball while in heavy traffic."
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"Children must receive music instruction as naturally as food, with as much pleasure as they derive from a ball game, and this must happen from the beginning of their lives."
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"When you control the ball you control the score"
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"The pitcher wound up and he flang the ball at the batter. The batter swang and missed. The pitcher flang the ball again and this time the batter connected. He hit a high fly right to the center fielder. The center fielder was all set to catch the ball, but at the last minute his eyes were blound by the sun and he dropped it."
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"Golf. Trying to knock a tiny ball into an even smaller hole with implements ill suited to the purpose."
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"Roses are red, violets are blue, so are my balls thanks to you."
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"In fact, my entire childhood consisted of looking at photographs in which the viewer sees the ball behind the line, looking through the goal net, and the poor goalkeeper in front of the net."
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"Next time you see a yardful of sprouting dandelions, note that they look remarkably like things we call "flowers." And later, when the flowers turn into fluff balls, look closely at one of those fluff balls and ask yourself whether it's really so unattractive."
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"Be ready to catch the ball when it is thrown by life."
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"I wanted to swallow myself by opening my mouth very wide and turning it over my head so that it would take in my whole body, and then the Universe, until all that would remain of me would be a ball of eaten thing which little by little would be annihilated: that is how I see the end of the world."
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"Free people have a serious problem with place, being in a place, using up a place, deciding which new place to rotate to. Americans ricochet around the United States like billiard balls."
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"You're turned in to the biggest balls of them all, DJ Suk T Nutts."
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"Here were decent godless people; Their only monument the asphalt road And a thousand lost golf balls."
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