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To be a big league ball player, you have to love the game. -- Enos Slaughter
I was not successful as a ball player, as it was a game of skill. -- Casey Stengel
I started playing ball when I was a kid. My dad was a pro ball player and he passed on his knowledge to me. -- Kurt Russell
If I would be happy, I would be a very bad ball player. With me, when I get mad, it puts energy in my body. -- Roberto Clemente
I am a ball player in the summer and a farmer in the winter time, and I aim to be a success at both professions. -- Zack Wheat
A ball player has to be kept hungry to become a big leaguer. That's why no boy from a rich family has ever made the big leagues. -- Joe DiMaggio
As far as I'm concerned, Aaron is the best ball player of my era. He is to baseball of the last fifteen years what Joe DiMaggio was before him. He's never received the credit he's due. -- Mickey Mantle
I was not able to understand how it could be right to pay an actor, or a singer, or an instrumentalist for entertaining the public and wrong to pay a ball player for doing exactly the same thing. -- Al Spalding
I was a baseball player. I played in high school and a little bit in college. I was a catcher. I don't know if I could have played any other position. As a catcher, you're always on the ball. -- Tim DeKay
But I was so wrapped up in sports growing up as a kid, that I think I was going to grow to be a pro ball player. But I found out real quick that was not going to happen. -- Tim McGraw
In regards to core training, I try to incorporate the medicine ball whenever possible. As a baseball player, there is a lot of twisting and turning that I will do. Keeping my abs strong is as important as anything else. -- Albert Pujols
I wanted to definitely be a musician or a good preacher or a heck of a baseball player. I couldn't play ball too good - I hurt my finger, and I stopped that. I couldn't preach, and well, all I had left was getting into the music thing. -- Muddy Waters
Your job is to umpire for the ball and not the player. -- Bill Klem
The player who puts the ball through the hoop has ten hands. -- John Wooden
As you keep shooting the ball, you become a better basketball player. -- Raekwon
In soccer, the blindest player is the one who sees nothing but the ball. -- Nelson Rodrigues
One of the hardest things for a ball player to do is to accept his role -- Scottie Pippen
The last player you want the ball to go to is the best player on the planet. -- Steven Gerrard
Zidane is unique. The ball flows with him. He is more like a dancer than a football player. -- Zinedine Zidane
The Ball no question makes of Ayes and Noes, But Here or There as strikes the Player goes. -- Edward Fitzgerald
Billy Loes was the only player in the majors who could lose a ground ball in the sun -- Joe Garagiola
I'm proud of the fact that I'm the only player to hit a ball completely out of Dodger Stadium. -- Willie Stargell
When Cristiano Ronaldo gets the ball, you can just leave him to it while he beats player after player. -- Ryan Giggs
I always threw the ball in, because then if I got the ball back, I was the only player unmarked. -- Johan Cruijff
Four times out of five the linesman gets a better view of the ball near him than the player himself. -- Helen Wills Moody
With a versatile player, there's no spot on the court you can't pass him the ball. You can do anything. -- Kevin Durant
I've always studied business. Even when I was a ball player, I'd read business journals and the business sections of newspapers. -- Magic Johnson
Our offensive philosophy is to simply find a way to get the ball into the hands of our team's best player. -- Kelvin Sampson
Scholes was England's best football player. It was impossible to take the ball from him, and he never mishit a pass. -- Sven-Goran Eriksson
Well I can't rightly say (which player hit the ball hardest), but the ones (home runs by) Ruth hit got smaller quicker. -- Walter Johnson
Bad putting is due more to the effect the green has upon the player than it has upon the action of the ball. -- Bobby Jones
I started playing ball when I was a kid. My dad was a pro ball player and he passed on his knowledge to me -- Kurt Russell
Few golfers are born with the natural talent for hitting the ball, but every player is blessed with the God-given ability to throw a club. -- Henry Beard
I'm a selfish football player. Each time the ball is snapped, I tell myself that I want to make that tackle, make that big play. -- Jevon Kearse
I hope I haven't maxed out, because I'm not satisfied. I hope I can be a better ball player, and I hope I'm on my way. -- Scott Rolen
My first ball I ever got from a Big League player I actually got to purchase in Dodger Stadium in a silent auction, was Reggie Jackson. -- Pedro Martinez
You can go bang a ball against a wall all you want, but how do you become a better team player? By playing other team sports. -- Dom Starsia
Training's completely different now. It used to be a lot of running and work without the ball. Now it's all with the ball, which any player loves. -- Frank Lampard
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
Players taught to watch the man with the ball leaves them totally unprepared for the next move, which is always dictated by a player without the ball. -- Tommy Docherty
Having Messi in the team guarantees everything. He doesn't just score, he gives assists, and he works and wins the ball. He is the best player in the world. -- Sergio Busquets

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