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It's a great day for a ball game; let's play two! -- Ernie Banks
The web site and the Internet are a whole new ball game. -- Johnny Rivers
If you go to the ball game, you don't need to read the game story. -- Jim Lehrer
Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself. -- Salman Rushdie
One disco, one soft ball game, one lost love, one gay pride rally at a time. -- Jasmine Guy
As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along with the ballplayers. I love a ball game. -- Rex Stout
The only real happiness a ballplayer has is when he is playing a ball game and accomplishes something he didn't think he could do. -- Ring Lardner
Life's like a ball game. You gotta take a swing at whatever comes along before you wake up and find out it's the ninth inning. -- Martin Goldsmith
Donning a glove for a backyard toss, or watching a ball game, or just reflecting upon our baseball days, we are players again, forever young. -- John Thorn
When I was playing football, I always felt in complete control. When I play golf and come under pressure, it's a completely different ball game. -- Alan Hansen
Most young people haven't used their storytelling skills since they were 8 or 9 or 10 and wanted to persuade Mom and Dad to take them to the ball game. -- Peter Guber
The fellow who can pay only twenty-five cents to see a ball game always will be just as welcome at Comiskey Park as the box seat holder. -- Charles Comiskey
Creating a character and living truthfully through her is a whole different ball game. It's all part of the same person but it's a much newer medium for me. -- Taylor Dane
In baseball, you pack your uniform in the clubhouse after a ball game, and you see it hanging up in your locker when you get to your next city. -- Harmon Killebrew
I am a basketball junkie, and as a product of the great basketball state of Kansas, I have watched many a ball game between the University of Kansas Jayhawks and the Tar Heels. -- Sheri L. Dew
Big waves are a whole different ball game. You're riding a wave with an immense amount of speed and power, generally over 10 meters. On the face of the wave, obviously life and death thoughts start to happen. -- Kelly Slater
When I am working it is up early and coffee and 15 hours of being on the set. When I am not working, it is up late and coffee, golf or softball and hopefully a ball game on the television. -- Mackenzie Astin
As a quarterback, you have to love it. As much as you like to turn around and hand the ball off - the whole traditional football game - as a quarterback, you gotta love putting it in the air. -- Joe Montana
Working with children is a whole other ball game. They're like little animals. You have to keep the camera turned on them all the time. Sometimes it takes a 41-minute take to get one sentence out in a believable way. -- Vera Farmiga
There is a definite loneliness in the game. Most people stay away from you since they think they're intruding upon your time. And after the ball game, when it's 11 o'clock and you want to eat dinner some place, the restaurants are closed. -- Lou Brock
So, it becomes an exercise in futility if you write something that does not express the film as the director wishes. It's still their ball game. It's their show. I think any successful composer learns how to dance around the director's impulses. -- Danny Elfman
It's a whole other ball game and I am glad that I fit into that space where, whatever it is that you want to do and you are doing as long as you are happy with it, then you know What the Heck! -- Bootsy Collins
Life... is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply won't be got rid of. -- Anita Brookner
You know this baseball game of ours comes up from the youth. That means the boys. And after you've been a boy, and grow up to know how to play ball, then you come to the boys you see representing themselves today in our national pastime. -- George Herman
Going into my second film as a director, it's night and day of what it was like going into my first film. It doesn't matter what you know in your head and what you've been taught until you're there and doing it; it's a whole new ball game. -- Derek Magyar
I'm really interested in how you create a whole new economy of recycling. It's literally the 'underground economy.' All this stuff that on the surface creates growth and profit, ends up with waste, junk, and CO2. So how do you make it economic to bring new players into the ball game? -- Peter Senge
The ball is round, the game is long. -- Bjorn Borg
The ball is an essential part of the game. -- Johan Cruijff
The ball is round so that the game can change direction -- Sepp Herberger
The web site and the Internet are a whole new ball game. -- Johnny Rivers
With the game on the line. I want the ball in my hands. -- Eli Manning
Watching a ball game is one of the sweetest pleasures in the world. -- Silvia Tennenbaum
To be a big league ball player, you have to love the game. -- Enos Slaughter
You don't win a game by hitting the ball out of the court. -- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
It's like you came to a controversy and a ball game breaks out. -- Matt Keough
I had no chance of controlling a ball game until I first controlled myself. -- Carl Hubbell
When they start the game, they don't yell, "Work ball." They say, "Play ball." -- Willie Stargell
I have always passed the ball and worked on that part of my game. -- Jamie Redknapp
I was not successful as a ball player, as it was a game of skill. -- Casey Stengel
The ball is round, the game lasts ninety minutes, and everything else is just theory. -- Sepp Herberger
Does one eat peanuts at a ball game?' 'It ain't hardly legal if you don't. -- Edna Ferber
In order for this team to win the game, the quarterback has to throw the ball. -- John Madden
I approach football like a street-ball game, like I'm playing with the fellas in the yard. -- Simeon Rice
We are a team. We share the ball, we share the game, we share the worries. -- Bill Shankly
Movies are a whole different ball-game, now. It's much more of a business - very scientific. -- Sylvester Stallone
I would probably be a linebacker today. I wouldn't be carrying the ball 20 or 25 times a game. -- Bronko Nagurski
I'm attracted to soccer's capacity for beauty. When well played, the game is a dance with a ball. -- Eduardo Galeano
If you run the ball, you control the clock. If you control the clock, you usually control the game. -- Tiki Barber
Chess is a time game, it's a game of patience. That pretty much defines how I run the ball. -- Priest Holmes
Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose. -- Woodrow Wilson
We have to be extremely vigilant and extremely careful when it comes to nuclear. Nuclear changes the whole ball game. -- Donald Trump
Nothing makes a pitcher feel more secure than the sight of his teammates circling the bases during a ball game. -- Jim Brosnan
What makes this game so delightful is that when both teams get the ball they are attacking their opponents goal. -- Jimmy Hill
Slow thinkers are part of the game too. Some of these slow thinkers can hit a ball a long way. -- Alvin Dark
Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win. -- Gary Lineker
Eating's going to be a whole new ball game. I may even have to buy a new pair of trousers. -- Lester Piggott
It is a game, the whole ball of wax is a game - your life, my life, politics, economy, hunger... -- Mandy Patinkin
What do you imagine the American people would think of me if I wasted my time going to the ball game? -- Grover Cleveland
I always wanted the ball in my hands with a game on the line, as I think any real competitor does. -- Jerry West
How you play the game is for college ball. When you're playing for money, winning is the only thing that matters. -- Leo Durocher
Soccer is simple... you just need to have the right mentality, fighting in every game, in every practice and for every ball. -- Hristo Stoichkov
If you want to play quicker you can start running faster, but it's the ball that decides the speed of the game. -- Johan Cruijff
That's the name of the game ... pleasing the customer. If we ever lose sight of that fact, we've lost the ball game. -- Ray Kroc
If it takes 30 days of rehearsal, you better ace all 30 of those days. When it's game time, you're ready to play ball. -- Phife Dawg
The same church members who yell like Comanche Indians at a ball game on Saturday sit like wooden Indians in church on Sunday. -- Vance Havner
Anytime you give up one run in Coors Field you expect to win a ball game. It just shows how well Myers pitched. -- Garrett Atkins
Programming is similar to a game of golf. The point is not getting the ball in the hole but how many strokes it takes. -- Hayley Mills
I went from five foot eleven to six foot eight, and the more ball I played, the more I caught on to the game. -- Dennis Rodman
Play ball! Means something more than runs Or pitches thudding into gloves! Remember through the summer suns This is the game your country loves. -- Grantland Rice
Four turnovers. Two assists. I told him he'd have the game ball if he had taken care of the ball a little bit better. -- Bo Ryan
American business can out-think, out-work, out-perform any nation in the world. But we can't beat the competition if we don't get in the ball game. -- George H. W. Bush
Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an ever smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose -- Winston Churchill
The entire ball game, in terms of both the exam and life, was what you gave attention to vs. what you willed yourself to not. -- David Foster Wallace
It's fun when the ball is going in the hole and things are going right, but it's a miserable game when things aren't going well. -- Fuzzy Zoeller
I like to go see a ball game. I'll have seven, eight, nine - 10 beers, and the second inning will roll around, and I gotta go. -- Doug Benson
The name of the game is 'kill the quarterback.' Every football team tries to knock the guy out of the game that's handling the ball. -- Joe Namath
Honestly, I don't think I'm doing anything any different right now. You swing, and the ball finds a hole. That's it. That's the game of baseball. -- Andrew McCutchen
A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team. -- Pat Riley
I'm mad at him, too, for being out late. But I'm not mad enough to take a chance on losing a ball game and possibly the pennant. -- Casey Stengel
I love the feel of hitting the ball hard, the pleasure of a rally. It is these things that make tennis the delightful game that it is. -- Helen Wills Moody
I love the feel of hitting the ball hard, the pleasure of a rally. It is these things that make tennis the delightful game that it is. -- Helen Wills Moody
Steph is scary. I've never seen anyone who can shoot the ball off the dribble like him. He got it going in 4th. Every game is different. -- LeBron James
There's only one ball game for any writer, and it's to keep you turning the pages. That's the whole ball game. That's what I have to do. -- Mike Lupica
I grew up in New York City, where we played highly unorganized sports: stick ball, stoop ball, and the occasional game of baseball with no adult supervision. -- Jeff Greenfield
Rugby is a game for the mentally deficient... That is why it was invented by the British. Who else but an Englishman could invent an oval ball? -- Peter Pook
..when the first rubber ball smacked her in the head and made her brains rattle in her skull, she knew that something about this dodgeball game was different -- Michael Buckley
Soccer is a game for 22 people that run around, play the ball, and one referee who makes a slew of mistakes, and in the end Germany always wins. -- Gary Lineker
The first time I picked up a bat in a professional game, I hit a ball hard left-handed, and my first home run was so effortless, it surprised me. -- Chili Davis
What a polite game tennis is. The chief word in it seems to be "sorry" and admiration of each other's play crosses the net as frequently as the ball. -- James M. Barrie
There was one planet off in the seventh dimension that got used as a ball in a game of intergalactic bar billiards. Got potted straight into a black hole. -- Douglas Adams
I have the opportunity to control what happens in a game. I'll have the ball in my hand, and only I know what I'm going to do with it. -- Clinton Portis
Basketball is a simple game. Your goal is penetration, get the ball close to the basket, and there are three ways to do that. Pass, dribble and offensive rebound. -- Phil Jackson
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. -- Leonard Bernstein
Hitting a golf ball correctly is the most sophisticated and complicated maneuver in all of sports, with the possible exception of eating a hot dog at a ball game without getting mustard on your shirt. -- Ray Fitzgerald

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