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You can lead a team in a lot of different ways. It can be talking to somebody who is down or, during the course of a game, looking to penetrate and then dropping the ball off to someone else for an easy bucket. -- Bill Cartwright
Sometimes, the people who are helping you can drop the ball. -- Gus Van Sant
You never want to be the director who dropped the ball, you know? -- David Yates
We need more drama on Australian TV. We've actually dropped the ball on that. -- Gillian Armstrong
The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it. -- Lou Holtz
When the ball dropped in 1999, I was holding dough and champagne in my hands and holding my kids. -- Method Man
In the NFL, every practice could make or break you. If you dropped one ball, you'd worry about getting cut. -- Darren Flutie
I used to be a rabid reader, but now it's scripts or nothing - network television is quite relentless, and you can't drop the ball. -- Robert Carlyle
Without grounding, it's easy to embrace the 'baller' lifestyle: dropping out of tech, throwing money at cars, boats and real estate, and slipping into a cycle of spending and indulgence. -- Ryan Holmes
It was kind of ridiculous to carry it up to a certain point and then drop the ball or the bomb, like quitting the band right after we had signed to Virgin. -- Elliott Smith
I have absolutely no idea what my generation did to enrich our democracy. We dropped the ball. We entered a period of complacency and closed our eyes to the public corruption of our democracy. -- Wynton Marsalis
I play in front of 70,000 fans week in and week out, and I may drop the ball in practice, I may run the ball the wrong way, but once it's game time, it's game on. -- Donald Driver
It's a tremendous responsibility to be direct descendants of the prophet Muhammad. This family has had the burden of leadership on its shoulders for 1,400 years. I'm not going to drop the ball on my shift. -- Abdallah II of Jordan
Meanwhile, people have to join us and fight back against the federal government that has dropped the ball, that is in bed with these energy companies, that wants them to make more money than they've made before. -- Gray Davis
If everything always went perfectly, I would feel like, When is the ball going to drop? Because good things don't always last. Maybe I'm a pessimistic person. When something just seems too good, I can't believe it. -- January Jones
I guess the biggest thing is that I committed to a spiritual center before I do anything else. And I put some daily things in my life into practice and I maintain that, to make sure that I don't drop the ball. -- Kathy Mattea
I think we're going to enter a phase where there's less interest in the CGI and there's a demand for story again. I think we've dropped the ball a little bit on stories for the sake of the amazing toys that we've played with. -- Peter Jackson
Barack Obama is not Harry Truman, who dropped the A-bomb on Japan to stop World War II. Barack Obama is not John F. Kennedy, who lowered marginal tax rates to get economic growth and job creation. Barack Obama and the far left, they are a completely different ball of wax. -- Monica Crowley
One of the many reasons I love living in New York is that we get a front row seat to the innumerable thrills that take place here - from conventions and awards shows, to parades and U.N. assemblies. But my favorite New York tradition is the annual New Year's Eve ball-drop on Times Square. -- Marlo Thomas
We're good at taking care of little kids, and spend a lot of energy teaching them things like how to read. But when kids get as tall as their parents and can look them in the eyes, we tend to drop the ball - at a time they most need a loving consistent community of adults, be it parents, aunts, uncles, or others. -- Laurie Halse Anderson
If he takes the option of dropping behind the point where the ball rests, keeping in line with the pin, his nearest drop is Honolulu. -- Jimmy Demaret

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