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«Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.»
«I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind.»
«It doesn't matter who scores the points, it's who can get the ball to the scorer.»
Author: Larry Bird (Basketball Player) | About: Sports | Keywords: ball, points, scorer, scores
«My pitching philosophy is simple - keep the ball way from the bat.»
«People like us are afraid to leave ball. What else is there to do? When baseball has been your whole life, you can't think about a future without it, so you hang on as long as you can.»
Author: Willie Stargell | About: Baseball | Keywords: ball, hang, hang on, People Like Us
«I was not successful as a ball player, as it was a game of skill.»
«Talking about golf is always boring. (Playing golf can be interesting, but not the part where you try to hit the little ball; only the part where you drive the cart.)»
«It's tough trying to keep your feet on the ground, your head above the clouds, your nose to the grindstone, your shoulder to the wheel, your finger on the pulse, your eye on the ball and your ear to the ground.»
«Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding»
«I wish everybody had the drive he had. He never did anything wrong on the field. I'd never seen him dive for a ball, everything was a chest-high catch, and he never walked off the field.»

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