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"She wouldn't let go of the letter. She took it into the tub with her and squeezed it up in a wet ball, and only let me leave it in the soap dish when she saw that it was coming to pieces like snow."
"My main focus is ball. I know what butters my toast. I know what my job is and what is expected of me, and that's what's first and foremost."
"There's a difference [between taking a charge and flopping]. We all know what flopping is when we see it. The stuff that you see is where guys aren't really getting hit at all and are just flailing around like a fish out of water. That's kind of like, where are your balls at?"
"I don't want to appear to be placing blame, but as far my life is concerned, everything is pretty much my dad's ball's fault."
"I'm only seeing tennis balls these days. And maybe the occasional fashion sketch."
"Texting and driving at the same time is like jerking off and juggling at the same time. Too many balls in the air, if you catch my drift."
"Prussia was hatched from a cannon-ball."
"i'm a perfectionist, so i'm never satisfied with myself. i've always been psychotic about that kind of stuff--in a good way. i'm very disciplined. like the food and the whole thing, i'm always looking to "how can i eventually just turn into a ball of light and fly off the planet?". until that happens and God basically pull the blinds back, i will not be satisfied... if i found out that if i ate pine nuts for the next month i could see God, i'd be eating pine nuts."
"Basketball for me has always been a matter of rhythm - what you do bouncing the ball, how you bounce the ball, how you run, how you receive the ball to be in rhythm."
"Isn't it god's own image? tramping his thirty miles a day after partridges, or a little rubber ball? wouldn't you like to be like that, well off, and quite the thing?"
"Socrates said that, from above, the Earth looks like one of those twelve-patched leathern balls."
"Rebounding helps a lot with your ball skills, because you're able to go get the ball at a high point, which is what they want you to do in football."
"The reason I do what I do is because I was influenced by Steve Martin, by Woody Allen, by Bob Newhart, by Carol Burnett, by Lucille Ball."
"I didnt know there were so many ways you could walk down stairs until the day we filmed Hermiones entrance into the Yule Ball Hall."
"Whenever I see that ball coming my way I am just hungry to get it. When I get the chance to take it I try to score as much as I can."
"As to Hemingway, I read him for the first time in the early 'forties, something about bells, balls and bulls, and loathed it."
"I have big nuts. huge nuts. Elephantitis of the balls - that's what I have."
"I've never recommended anybody go into coaching, 'cause if they have enough on the ball, if they can do without coaching, they should do without it. If they put as much work into it and spend as much time, the rewards are going to be much better in something else."
"If I'm gonna get my balls blown off for a word, my word is "poontang"."
"I can catch the ball. You've got to throw it to me."
