Golf is the closest game to the game we call life. You get bad breaks from good shots; you get good breaks from bad shots - but you have to play the ball where it lies. — Bobby Jones
I learned all about life with a ball at my feet — Ronaldinho
Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall with a joint, drinking some eight-ball. — Ice Cube
Police on my drawers
I had to pause
40 ounce in my lap
And it's freezing my balls — Eazy-E
Whoever called snooker "chess with balls" was rude, but right. — Clive James
Niggas pray and pray on my downfall, But every time I hit the ground I bounce up like round ball — Jay-Z
If you don't have the balls to brake late, that's your problem. — Lewis Hamilton
They say some of my stars drink whiskey, but I have found that ones who drink milkshakes don't win many ball games. — Casey Stengel
Mike, did you ever see the movie 'Cast Away?' In that movie, Tom Hanks' only friend was a ball named Wilson. In this game, Russell Wilson's only friend is a football. — Jon Gruden
Short Balls Quotes
I have balls the size of grapefruits and come this Sunday, you'll be spitting out the seeds. — Vince McMahon
One travels like a golf ball, hopping from green to green. — John Gunther
To stay like a ball in a bucket. — Romanian Proverbs
Sometimes I wish my balls were square so I could stack em. — Theo Von
There is a place in the net where the keeper cannot reach the ball. — Jurgen Klopp
They throw the ball, I hit it. They hit the ball, I catch it. — Willie Mays
It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling. — Mark Twain
Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move. — Satchel Paige
I say if you're going to take a chance on something, you just go full balls to the wall. — Toby Keith
My motto is, 'When in doubt, shoot the ball'. — J. R. Smith
Balls Image Quotes
One of the hardest things for a ball player to do is to accept his role — Scottie Pippen
Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.
The most important shot in golf is the next one. — Ben Hogan
If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball. — Jack Lemmon
What a great day for football, all we need is some green grass and a ball. — Bill Shankly
Don't bunt. Aim out of the ball park. Aim for the company of immortals.
Inspiring Soccer Ball Quotes
Every time I went away I was deceiving my mum. I'd tell her I was going to school but I'd be out on the street playing football. I always had a ball on my feet. — Ronaldo
The ball is round, the game lasts ninety minutes, and everything else is just theory. — Sepp Herberger
In his life, a man can change wives, political parties or religions but he cannot change his favourite soccer team. — Eduardo Galeano
I don't believe skill was, or ever will be, the result of coaches. It is a result of a love affair between the child and the ball. — Roy Keane
In football, the worst blindness is only seeing the ball. — Nelson Rodrigues
Behind every kick of the ball there has to be a thought. — Dennis Bergkamp
Soccer Sports Quotes
When you start supporting a football club, you don't support it because of the trophies, or a player, or history, you support it because you found yourself somewhere there; found a place where you belong. — Dennis Bergkamp
Every kid around the world who plays soccer wants to be Pele. I have a great responsibility to show them not just how to be like a soccer player, but how to be like a man. — Pele
I had no interest in fashion when I was younger. I was such a tomboy. I loved soccer, as you call it, or sports in general. The first time I was a bridesmaid, to my auntie, I refused to go down the aisle without my football shorts underneath my dress. — Cara Delevingne
If you're in the penalty area and don't know what to do with the ball, put it in the net and we'll discuss the options later. — Bob Paisley
It's better to have ten disorganized players than ten organized runners. — Roberto Baggio
Only true champions come out and show their worth after defeat- and I expect us to do that. — Alex Ferguson
What makes the difference between a great player and just a normal player is dedication, work, commitment. — Thierry Henry
I have two speeds. Fast and faster. I don't just run. I take it. — Arjen Robben
More girls are taking up sport and realising it’s a legitimate option for them to forge a career. — Ellyse Perry
I think sport can play a really positive role in young girls’ lives and be great to see as many of them playing sport as possible. — Ellyse Perry
Soccer Quotes
If soccer was an American soft drink, it would be Diet Pepsi — Lewis Grizzard
There is no pressure when you are making a dream come true. — Neymar
Soccer is what I grew up doing - it's my passion, and I'm way more comfortable on the field in my soccer cleats. — Alex Morgan
It's best being a striker. If you miss five then score the winner, you're a hero. The goalkeeper can play a blinder, then let one in… and he's a villain. — Ian Rush
Keep working even when no one is watching. — Alex Morgan
I once cried because I had no shoes to play soccer, but one day, I met a man who had no feet. — Zinedine Zidane
God gives gifts to everyone, some can write, some can dance. He gave me the skill to play football and I am making the most of it. — Ronaldinho
Your love makes me strong, Your hate makes me unstoppable. — Cristiano Ronaldo
It would've cost less, and left the previous owners with nothing, to go into liquidation. But it would also be humiliating for Celtic. So we paid all the bills. Celtic means the same to me as it does to other fans. I identify with the club and wish to be proud of it. — Fergus McCann
My hobbies are cooking and gardening, especially growing orchids. I love soccer, my husband and I support a British team called Chelsea, and I also enjoy tennis. We have 3 cats. — Juliet Mills
Soccer Football Quotes
A football team is a like a beautiful woman, when you do not tell her, she forgets she is beautiful — Arsene Wenger
I have the chance to do for a living what I like the most in life, and that's playing football. I can make people happy and enjoy myself at the same time. — Ronaldinho
Messi scores a goal and celebrates. Cristiano scores a goal and poses like he's in a shampoo commercial. — Diego Maradona
If my mother put on a helmet and shoulder pads and a uniform that wasn't the same as the one I was wearing, I'd run over her if she was in my way. And I love my mother. — Bo Jackson
In my time at Anfield we always said we had the best two teams on Merseyside - Liverpool and Liverpool reserves. — Bill Shankly
Some people tell me that we professional players are soccer slaves. Well, if this is slavery, give me a life sentence. — Bobby Charlton
I've told him to cut off his ponytail. I think it makes him less aerodynamic. — Arsene Wenger
What a debut for the young goalkeeper, as a striker. — Peter Drury
Pele called me the greatest footballer in the world. That is the ultimate salute to my life. — George Best
At a football club, there's a holy trinity - the players, the manager and the supporters. Directors don't come into it. They are only there to sign the checks. — Bill Shankly
Soccer Game Quotes
My game is based on improvisation. Often a forward does not have the time to think too much. You have a second, rarely more, to decide whether to dribble, shoot or pass to the right or left. It is instinct that gives the orders. — Ronaldinho
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
I love the game of basketball, and as long as I can do that, keep playing and try to get some more championships with the organization, I’ll be happy. — Kawhi Leonard
I’m just living in the moment, trying to win every game. That’s all I’m focused on. — Kawhi Leonard
We didn't underestimate them. They were just a lot better than we thought. — Bobby Robson
I play cricket. I’m a professional cricketer and I guess my job is to hopefully help Australia win games of cricket. — Ellyse Perry
The game changed. We changed it, and we’re here to play the new one. — Charles Hoskinson
I believe that a bad Super Bowl halftime show is still better than a soccer game. — Ron White
Strangely, in slow motion replay, the ball seemed to hang in the air for even longer. — David Acfield
Those friendly games are not pointless. They enable us to go forward. — Didier Deschamps
Soccer Player Quotes
He does things I have never seen from any other player and it really is marvellous to watch. It takes a great player to grab the bull by the horns and make things happen, but he has done it repeatedly. He has been even better than people here thought he would be and that's saying something. — Cristiano Ronaldo
When I first met him [James Galanis], he just said, "Look, if you want to be a professional soccer player, if you want to make the national team, you have to do everything possible to work hard. You’ve got to put it number one." — Carli Lloyd
I tell you that the coaches are like cardiologists – they have to enter the player in their hearts so that the message reaches them. — Mikel Arteta
Every day is important, every act is important. The secret is that the people, players and staff have to believe what you are trying to deliver. — Mikel Arteta
Play for the name on the front of the shirt, and they will remember the name on the back — Tony Adams
Most of us are in this more than just for playing soccer. We're in it for the bigger goal - to move it along for the next generation. — Landon Donovan
To see the line between being good and bad is really thin. It’s not easy for anyone, not the manager, the players or the staff. — Mikel Arteta
I try to be a complete player – in attack and in defense – and to improve every year. — Antoine Griezmann
My heroes were always soccer players. — Ronaldinho
Sure we have skilled players, but the biggest thing might just be that we are so well conditioned and how we can play for 90 minutes at a high tempo which is needed in soccer at an international level. — Claudio Reyna
Soccer Training Quotes
I have tried to convince the players that if we work on certain things in training, they will happen in games and we will score goals from them. — Mikel Arteta
Personally, I love training, and getting paid to play football is incredible. Playing the game and working hard is what I have always dreamed of doing. — Harry Kane
I try to work to improve myself every day, and I try to do on the pitch what I do during the training sessions. — Kylian Mbappe
We move on to tomorrow, review the match, train well and start to think about Man City. — Mikel Arteta
I have so much love for football, that I think is the reason why I seek refuge in training – I’m always guided by that desire to conquer, to win. — Kylian Mbappe
El Cholo is a great coach: he asks a lot of his players and demands a lot of intensity. If your guard is down even a bit in training, Cholo tells you put extra effort in quickly. — Antoine Griezmann
That lad must have been born offside. — Alex Ferguson
In England, they say that Manchester is the city of rain. It's main attraction is considered to the timetable at the railway station, where trains leave for other, less rainy cities. — Nemanja Vidic
The rules of soccer are very simple, basically it is this: if it moves, kick it. If it doesn't move, kick it until it does. — Phil Abraham
The rules of soccer are very simple: if it moves, kick it. If it doesn't move, kick it until it does. — Phil Woosnam
Soccer Team Quotes
I’m in the team to score goals. I try and score as many as I can in the season to help the team out. — Harry Kane
I got to move on. I got to keep making winning plays. I got to keep competing. I got to keep finding ways to help my team be great. — Giannis Antetokounmpo
Being together on the field as a group, operating as a team, making important plays is a great thing. — Ellyse Perry
How could you have a soccer team if all were goalkeepers? How would it be an orchestra if all were French horns? — Desmond Tutu
Being an England supporter is like being the over-optimistic parents of the fat kid on sports day. — John Bishop
In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team. — Jean-Paul Sartre
When the team is doing well, individual performances don’t count. — Smriti Mandhana
I’m going to do whatever it takes for me and my team to be successful. — Giannis Antetokounmpo
College coaches measure success in championships. High School coaches measure success to titles. Youth coaches measure success in smiles. — Paul McAllister
You have to play this game like somebody just hit your mother with a two-by-four. — Dan Birdwell
Soccer Coach Quotes
I’ve always been working hard on my speed for the last few years. Obviously I’m not slow, but as a striker, the more speed you have, the better you are. — Harry Kane
Football is something like war. Whoever behaves too properly, is lost. — Rinus Michels
Criticism is part of being at a club like Arsenal. You always have to win and when you’re not winning you have to be prepared for that. It’s part of your job. — Mikel Arteta
After an international break you do not know if they are in the frame of mind to come back and do the things necessary to win this league. — Mikel Arteta
It isn’t hard to practise finishing. You can do it on your own: just take a couple of touches and shoot at goal. You can do it with whatever equipment you have. — Harry Kane
Many clubs rejected me, but I wanted to be a footballer and to learn as quickly as possible, so I persisted until I got into Real Sociedad when I was 13. — Antoine Griezmann
Great Soccer Quotes
There is a great gulf between the Christianity that wrestles with whether to worship at the cost of imprisonment and death, and the Christianity that wrestles with whether the kids should play soccer on Sunday morning. — John Piper
That's great, tell him he's Pele and get him back on. — John Lambie
I only think about the pitch. I want to do great. I want to be one of the best. I want to win titles. I want to achieve things. — Paul Pogba
The goal was scored a little bit by the hand of God, another bit by the head of Maradona. — Diego Maradona
In Britain, we don’t appreciate people who have been a major success in sport. It is grudgingly given to you. — Stephen Hendry
I love playing in China. The crowds here value success more than British people seem to. — Stephen Hendry
I want to become a legend, like Pele or Maradona. Or more than them. — Paul Pogba
Playing football is very simple, but playing simple football is the hardest thing there is. — Johan Cruijff
It was a beautiful moment at the end to win a game of this stature. — Mikel Arteta
That’s why we love football: it’s not about the money or about the hairstyle or the dancing. We want to see beautiful goals, great tackles, fair play, and all this stuff. — Paul Pogba
Soccer Love Quotes
For me, growing up and watching Test cricket and absolutely loving it, that’s been the pinnacle for me with cricket. — Ellyse Perry
I'm from Wisconsin, and I love snowboarding, hiking, yoga and soccer. — Jessica Szohr
Every time I enter the field, it’s like, ‘Smriti, you have to score.’ And I love that responsibility. — Smriti Mandhana
Of course my base and my favorite thing is striking, and I will do a lot of striking because I love this game. — Valentina Shevchenko
I really loved football from a young age. And my only thought, my only objective in life, was to be a professional footballer. — Paul Pogba
I would say, in a year, I spend maybe half of that playing FIFA. I love it that much. — KSI
I played basketball when I was little because it was fun for me. It still is now. I just love it. I have a passion for it. — Kawhi Leonard
The ball is like a woman, she loves to be caressed. — Eric Cantona
I’d love to be captain of Tottenham and hopefully England as well. — Harry Kane
I love being an older comic now. It's like being an old soccer or an old baseball player. You're in the Hall of Fame and it's nice, but you're no longer that person in the limelight on the spot doing that thing. — Eric Idle
Soccer Motivation Quotes
More than my dream it was my family’s dream that I play for India and they always supported me. — Smriti Mandhana
I promise that we are going to win the league again. — John W. Henry
When I think of how special Anfield is and how special Liverpool is, everywhere around the world everyone is talking about Liverpool, it is because of the fan base. — John W. Henry
The mandate of financial fair play in Europe is for clubs to live within their means. — John W. Henry
Don't visualize beating the keeper, visualize destroying the keeper. — Steven Gerrard
Manchester United has done an incredible job of building a young, talented, deep squad. — John W. Henry
Manchester City seems to have unlimited spending restraint and are attempting to have all-star quality at each position – two deep. That will be hard to beat. — John W. Henry
For me it was always about enjoying what I was doing and trying to get better, playing more and more sport. — Ellyse Perry
Goal-line technology is a good thing. The ref gets the signal and can decide based on that. — Didier Deschamps
There are players that try to imitate others, but at free-kick time it is a personal thing. Every person has their own technique and routine when they stand over the ball and I have mine, I am not trying to copy anyone. — Neymar
In the best of times, our days are numbered anyway. So it would be a crime against nature for any generation to take the world crisis so solemnly that it put off enjoying those things for which we were designed in the first place: the opportunity to do good work, to enjoy friends, to fall in love, to hit a ball, and to bounce a baby. — Alistair Cooke
Some day I'm going to have to stand before God, and if He asks me why I didn't let that [Jackie] Robinson fellow play ball, I don't think saying 'because of the color of his skin' would be a good enough answer. — Branch Rickey
Growing up I wasn't the richest, but I had a rich family in spirit. Standing here with 19 championships is something I never thought would happen. I went on a court just with a ball and a racket and with a hope. — Serena Williams
During my 18 years I came to bat almost 10,000 times. I struck out about 1,700 times and walked maybe 1,800 times. You figure a ballplayer will average about 500 at-bats a season. That means I played 7 years without ever hitting the ball. — Mickey Mantle
People talk about cold weather and it'd be tough to catch balls. But the greatest catcher of all time, Michael Crabtree, catches everything. It's unbelievable. In the northern snowlands, down to the tropics' sunny scenes, he's catching the football. Where they throw a football, he'll be catching it. — Jim Harbaugh
I learned to approach racing like a game of billiards. If you bash the ball too hard, you get nowhere. As you handle the cue properly, you drive with more finesse. — Juan Manuel Fangio
Football is like a religion to me. I worship the ball, and I treat it like a god. Too many players think of a football as something to kick. They should be taught to caress it and to treat it like a precious gem. — Pele
I seemed to vow to myself that some day I would go to the region of ice and snow and go on and on till I came to one of the poles of the earth, the end of the axis upon which this great round ball turns. — Ernest Shackleton
I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it. — Sandy Koufax
Being a good teammate is when you try to sprint down a ball that everyone thinks is going out of bounds. But you go after it anyways and you get it. — Mia Hamm
Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got. Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players. — Larry Bird
Success is not just the crowning moment, the spiking of the ball in the end zone or the raising of the flag on the summit. It is the whole process of reaching for a goal and, sometimes, it begins with failure. — Erik Weihenmayer
The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball. — Bill Veeck
My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane. — Graham Greene
Don’t worry about things. Don’t push. Just do your work and you’ll survive. The important thing is to have a ball, to be joyful, to be loving and to be explosive. Out of that comes everything and you grow. — Ray Bradbury
With things like 'Dragon Ball,' in the case of fight scenes, I'd take the panel layout across two pages when the book is opened and alter it by angling them, and making them bigger or smaller, to give movement to the panels themselves. — Akira Toriyama
If anyone tries to bully you don’t let them. Take the positive energy form a ball of rainbow power and just, like shove it. — Ariana Grande
In playing ball, and in life, a person occasionally gets the opportunity to do something great. When that time comes, only two things matter: being prepared to seize the moment and having the courage to take your best swing. — Hank Aaron
European languages must not be considered diamonds displayed under a glass ball, dazzling us with their brilliance. — Cheikh Anta Diop
Money is not a motivating factor. Money doesn't thrill me or make me play better because there are benefits to being wealthy. I'm just happy with a ball at my feet. My motivation comes from playing the game I love. If I wasn't paid to be a professional footballer I would willingly play for nothing. — Lionel Messi
One thing I can't prove, but I firmly believe is that two men were put on this earth - one threw a punch and a third guy came over and watched. And that happened before anybody ever threw or kicked a ball. — Dana White
Two things you can’t let anyone take from you: your reputation and your balls. That means accepting the pressure of taking responsibility for everything you say and do. — Tim Grover
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