1,178 Quotes About Balls

Boy, the infield is like concrete out there. Ground balls get by you in a hurry. We can use the good weather to get our work in but you'd like to see a little rain at night to soften up the fields a bit.

He's hitting a lot of balls on the nose.

My crystal ball or intuition tells me that in the '80s the impact of RIA [radioimmunoassay] on the study of infectious diseases may prove as revolutionary as its impact on endocrinology in the 60s.

Defensively I've been trying to encourage the girls to be more confident in their defensive play. Some balls are going to hit the ground, but you have to be confident.

There are a lot of guys who have terrible throwing motions-worse than mine. But they still get the ball downfield. That's all that matters.

There were some strange balls that were pop ups and they kept going. I was throwing to the inside part of the plate better and throwing the change. I just felt like a couple of them weren't really hit that well.

Our pitchers got us some ground balls to turn double plays and get us out of a few jams.

Ortiz has pulled quite a few home runs this year, and Manny wasn't having good passes at balls away all series. I just figured I'd stay out there, and they threw the ball pretty much where I wanted.

A couple of those balls were a little more jump balls than I wanted them to be. The rain kind of got me a little bit. ... We felt we could exploit them that way.