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  • Does one eat peanuts at a ball game?' 'It ain't hardly legal if you don't.

    Baseball   Games   Doe  
    Edna Ferber (2015). “Buttered Side Down”, p.37, Booklassic
  • Most ball games are lost, not won.

    Quoted in Paul Dickson, Baseball's Greatest Quotations (1991)
  • I think the Americans don't understand that this is a complicated new ball game. People everywhere have seen that a few determined people who were not scared to die can create a huge upheaval within a major superpower.

    Thinking   Games   People  
  • 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.

    Games   Twenties   Balls  
  • We are not simply intellectual creatures. We wish to make love, to enjoy a gourmet dinner, to jog in the park, to cheer lustily at a ball game, to engage in spirited conversation with our friends, to play bridge or tennis, travel to exotic places, struggle with others to build a better world, and to enjoy the arts. The arts are so vital because they help to make life worth living. Music, poetry, literature, paintings, dance, and the theater are among our richest joys...The fine arts contribute immeasurably to the good life and that is why we cherish them.

    Art   Good Life   Cheer  
  • Guns do not make you a killer. I think killing makes you a killer. You can kill someone with a baseball bat or a car, but no one is trying to ban you from driving to the ball game.

    Baseball   Gun   Thinking  
  • Often I hear people say they do not have time to read. That's absolute nonsense. If one really wants to learn, one has to decide what is important. Spending an evening on the town? Attending a ball game? Or learning something that can be with you your life long.

    Games   Long   People  
    Louis L'Amour (2008). “Education of a Wandering Man”, p.11, Bantam
  • It's important for the young players to practice other ball games as well, basketball or table tennis. On the tennis court, you can improve your eye through a kind of overexertion.

    Basketball   Eye   Player  
    Source: www.spiegel.de
  • You're gonna lose some ball games and you're gonna win some ball games and that's about it.

  • . . some moment happens in your life that you say yes right up to the roots of your hair, that makes it worth having been born just to have happen. laughing with somebody till the tears run down your cheeks. waking up to the first snow. being in bed with somebody you love... whether you thank god for such a moment or thank your lucky stars, it is a moment that is trying to open up your whole life. If you turn your back on such a moment and hurry along to business as usual, it may lose you the ball game. if you throw your arms around such a moment and hug it like crazy, it may save your soul.

    Running   Stars   Crazy  
    Frederick Buechner (1973). “Wishful thinking: a theological ABC.”, Harper San Francisco
  • Though I like the various forms of football in the world, I don't think they begin to compare with these two great Anglo-Saxon ball games for sophisticated elegance and symbolism. Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base - in both senses - greed. With football we are back to the monotonous clashing armor of the brontosaurus.

  • Being an entrepreneur, everyone needs to hear a personal anecdote from you once in a while or see you go out of your way to make someone's day. Maybe it's time for a party at your house to unwind, or an afternoon off with the team to attend the ball game.

    Team   Party   Games  
    Source: www.foxnews.com
  • It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square.

  • Will TV kill the theater? If the programs I have seen, save for "Kukla, Fran and Ollie," the ball games and the fights, are any criterion, the theater need not wake up in a cold sweat.

    Fighting   Games   Sweat  
    Tallulah Bankhead (1952). “Tallulah: My Autobiography”, p.11, Univ. Press of Mississippi
  • Now people are worried not about the prospects of buying new things, but about how to pay for the things they bought yesterday, a year ago or years before. It is, as Americans like to say, "a wholly different kind of ball-game".

    Years   Games   Yesterday  
    Interview with Marcelo Dimentstein, Alberto Senderey, Andy Spokoiny and Shira Shnitzer, leatid.org. February 2009.
  • When your blood is found at the murder scene, that's the end of the ball game, there's nothing more to say.

    Blood   Games   Balls  
    Source: www.cyinterview.com
  • Even when it comes to things like wars over oil, which may seem like a whole different ball game, there are still comparisons one can draw: chimps fight for their territory; they fight for the resources within that territory, so it does relate in a way.

    War   Fighting   Games  
    Source: www.egonzehnder.com
  • I’ve lived the literal meaning of the ‘land of the free’ and ‘home of the brave.’ It’s not corny for me. I feel it in my heart. I feel it in my chest. Even at a ball game, when someone talks during the anthem or doesn’t take off his hat, it pisses me off. I’m not one to be quiet about it, either.

    Home   Heart   Land  
  • 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.

  • The reason people like to watch ball games is because they don't really know exactly what's going to happen from moment to moment. That's why you watch the entire thing

    Games   People   Watches  
  • Stevie Wonder used to come the ball games and they would have a guy sitting with him. And the guy would be holding on to his arm, telling him what's going on, and he would say, "Hey, the big chocolate guy just put down a thunder dunk. The chocolate guy with another monster dunk." And Stevie Wonder actually gave me the nickname Chocolate Thunder.

    Games   Guy   Chocolate  
    "Dime Q&A: Darryl Dawkins Reveals The Origin of His Nickname And Recalls His First Dunk". Uproxx Interview, uproxx.com. August 4, 2011.
  • 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.

    Children   Games   Balls  
    Leonard Bernstein (1982). “Findings”, Anchor
  • Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

    Freedom   Games   Speech  
    Excerpts From Rushdie's Address: 1,000 Days 'Trapped Inside a Metaphor', archive.nytimes.com. December 12, 1991.
  • I have always felt that although someone may defeat me, and I strike out in a ball game, the pitcher on the particular day was the best player. But I know when I see him again, I'm going to be ready for his curve ball. Failure is a part of success.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Every hitter likes fastballs, just like everybody likes ice cream. But you don't like it when someone's stuffing it into you by the gallon. That's what it feels like when Nolan Ryan's thrown balls by you.

    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • Movies are a whole different ball-game, now. It's much more of a business - very scientific.

    Games   Different   Balls  
    Source: www.gamesradar.com
  • When you go to South Africa, you get a different vibe and a different sound. The music is awesome the people are loving it. When you go to Botswana, it's a different ball game. The people out there love Afro Beat Hip Hop so much. When you go to Sierra Leone it's different, when you go to Nigeria it's different... It's all pretty exciting!

    Games   People   Hip Hop  
    Source: mobo.com
  • 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.

    Baseball   Player   Games  
  • I'm only interested in winning ball games and I can't be worrying about whether the sun's out or the moon's out.

    Winning   Moon   Games  
  • Alcohol whipped me. Alcohol and I had many, many marvelous times together. We laughed, we talked, we danced at the party together; then one day I woke up and the band had gone home and I was lying in the broken glass with a shirt full of puke and I said, 'Hey, man, the ball game's up'.

    Lying   Party   Home  
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