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Countries that try to spread their ideologies by force, be it religion, socialism, capitalism, democracy or something else, will be overwhelmed by the human and economic cost of conflicts. Those countries will lag behind other countries that are focusing on developing their economies and advancing their interests via global partnerships and trade. With the new global knowledge and global competition, if you take your eye off the economic ball someone else will pick it up. – Med Jones	added by seattle29 13 years ago
I am not a star. A star is nothing more than a ball of gas. – Elijah Wood	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into a even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill- designed for the purpose. – Winston Churchill	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Happy Son of a bitch ball. Why can't you go home Aren't you good enough for your home Answer me. Suck my white ass ball. – Happy Gilmore	added by anonymous 14 years ago
By the time you get to your ball, if you don't know what to do with it, try another sport. – Julius Boros	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Prince Akeem Oh, it was a most amazing game. The Giants of New York took on the Packers of Green Bay. The Giants triumphed by kicking a pigskin ball through a big H. A most ripping victory. Cleo McDowell Son... I'm just going to tell you this one time. If you want to keep working here, stay off the drugs. – Coming to America	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I just wrap my arms around the whole backfield and peel 'em one by one until I get to the ball carrier. Him I keep. – Big Daddy Lipscomb	added by anonymous 14 years ago
If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base. – Dave Barry	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Hither the heroes and nymphs resort,To taste awhile the pleasures of a courtIn various talk th'instuctive hours they past,Who gave the ball, or paid the visit lastOne speaks the glory of the British Queen,And one describes a charming Indian screenlA third interprets motions, looks and eyesAt every word a reputation dies. – Alexander Pope	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move. – Satchel Paige	added by anonymous 14 years ago
These greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow. – Sam Snead	added by anonymous 14 years ago
A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be the constant companion of your walks. – Thomas Jefferson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The honor of my race, family and self is at stake. Everyone is expecting me to do big things. I will. My whole body and soul are to be thrown recklessly about the field. Every time the ball is snapped, I will be trying to do more than my part...Fight low, with your eyes open and toward the play. Watch out for crossbucks and reverse end runs. Be on your toes every minute if you expect to make good. Jack. – Jack Trice	added by anonymous 14 years ago
When I played ball, I didn't play for fun. . . . It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It's a contest and everything that implies, a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest. – Ty Cobb	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The first time I shot the hook, I was in fourth grade, and I was about five feet eight inches tall. I put the ball up and felt totally at ease with the shot. I was completely confident it would go in and I've been shooting it ever since. – Kareem Abdul-Jabar	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I've always tried to do my best on the ball field. I can't do any more than that. I always try to give one hundred percent and if my team loses, I come back and give one hundred percent the next day. – Jesse Barfield	added by anonymous 14 years ago
There's a deep fly ball... Winfield goes back, back... his head hits the wall ... it's rolling towards second base. – Jerry Coleman	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The first pitch to Tucker Ashford is grounded into left field. No, wait a minute. It's ball one. Low and outside. – Jerry Coleman	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself. – David Mamet	added by anonymous 14 years ago
When you control the ball, you control the score. – Pele	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The galleries are full of critics. They play no ball, they fight no fights. They make no mistakes because they attempt nothing. Down in the arena are the doers. They make mistakes because they try many things. The man who makes no mistakes lacks boldness and the spirit of adventure. He is the one who never tries anything. His is the brake on the wheel of progress. And yet it cannot be truly said he makes no mistakes, because his biggest mistake is the very fact that he tries nothing, does nothing, except criticize those who do things. – David M. Shoup	added by anonymous 14 years ago
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. – Ezra Pound	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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