"Next time there’s a ball, ask me before someone else does, and not as a last resort!"
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"As I was in the air, the ball took a bad hop and caromed behind me, but I was able to catch it with my bare hand. I hit the ground, bounced back up, and threw Burroughs out at first."
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"It is astonishing to realize that until Galileo performed his experiments on the acceleration of gravity in the early seventeenth century, nobody questioned Aristotle's falling balls. Nobody said, Show Me!"
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"Once you get to the plate, you have two options: You either quit, or you try to hit the ball."
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"I'm probably not going to get married unless I live with somebody for 10 or 20 years. But these people, Romeo and Juliet, took a chance and they did it. We don't have the balls that Romeo did."
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"I once delivered a simple ball, which I was told, had it gone far enough, would have been considered a wide"
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"Once I get the ball, you're at my mercy. There is nothing you can say or do about it. I own the ball."
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"I hate being out there with those garbage men. They don't get you the ball."
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"I hereby certify that the bearer of this note, Nikolai Ivanovich, spent the night in question at Satan's ball, having been lured there in a transportational capacity... Hella, put in parentheses! And write 'hog.' Signed- Behemoth."
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"Chess is a time game, it’s a game of patience. That pretty much defines how I run the ball."
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"Fence straddlers have no balls. In compensation, however, they enjoy a comfortable seat and can retreat swiftly, when danger threatens, to either side of the fence. There is something to be said for every position."
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"Cotton balls is an example of something I would buy, but not want to have as a nickname. Cinnamon buns, on the other hand, is something I would buy and want to have as a nickname. 'Are you Cinnamon Buns?' 'You bet your sweet ass I am.'"
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"When it comes to saving England, Maggy is Ball's Deep"
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"I try to get control of the tempo, control of the flow, and get my teammates the ball in the best position to score."
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"Why do all balls look like they're 150 years old?"
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"The guy who's willing to hustle the most is gonna be the guy that just gets that loose ball."
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"The trick is this: keep your eye on the ball. Even when you can't see the ball."
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"There's one thing I'm really good at, and that's hitting the ball over a net, in a box. I'm excellent."
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"Hey, Ethan." "Yeah?" "Remember the Twinkie on the bus? The one I gave you in second grade, the day we met?" "The one you found on the floor and gave me without telling me? Nice." He grinned and shot the ball. "It never really fell on the floor. I made that part up."
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"When I see three balls, I just swing at the middle one."
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