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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 your constant companion of your walks.
Thomas Jefferson

Nature, Strong, Character

I can't speak for the future. I have no crystal ball.
Michael Jordan

Future, Speak, Crystal

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Happiness, After, Run

If people don't want to come out to the ball park, nobody's gonna stop 'em.
Yogi Berra

Stop, Nobody, Gonna

Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.
Blaise Pascal

Him, Enough, Playing

Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win.
Gary Lineker

Men, Simple, End

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

Leadership, Respect, Able

I never played with a runner in my entire life, even in schools, because only I know where the ball is going and how hard, when I hit the ball, something my runner will never know about.
Sachin Tendulkar

Life, Hard, Hit

Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase.
Charles Caleb Colton

Snow, Corruption, Once

My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories.
Bjorn Borg

Great, Greatest, Fight

The way to work with a bully is to take the ball and go home. First time, every time. When there's no ball, there's no game. Bullies hate that. So they'll either behave so they can play with you or they'll go bully someone else.
Seth Godin

Work, Time, Home

That Seaman is a handsome young man but he spends too much time looking in his mirror rather than at the ball. You can't keep goal with hair like that.
Brian Clough

Time, Goal, Young

The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball.
Bill Veeck

True, Spring, Sound

Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball.
James Patrick Murray

Legal, Game, Person

Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets.
Rudyard Kipling

Fire, Small, Less

If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.
Jack Lemmon

Hard, Try, Wrong

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

Good, Down, After

The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
Lou Holtz

Likely, Complains, Dropped

Every quarterback can throw a ball; every running back can run; every receiver is fast; but that mental toughness that you talk about translates into competitiveness.
Tom Brady

Talk, Run, Fast

He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass.
Edgar R. Fiedler

Lives, Eat, Soon

It doesn't matter who scores the points, it's who can get the ball to the scorer.
Larry Bird

Matter, Points, Scorer

I have absolutely no idea what my generation did to enrich our democracy. We dropped the ball. We entered a period of complacency and closed our eyes to the public corruption of our democracy.
Wynton Marsalis

Democracy, Corruption, Eyes

You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the damn plate and five the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all.
Earl Weaver

Greatest, Game, Baseball

Where the ball went was up to heaven. Sometimes I threw the ball clean up into the stands.
Bob Feller

Sometimes, Heaven, Clean

She's probably in denial that she's a great big ball of insecurity and I'm quite well aware that I am one.
Boy George

Great, Insecurity, Big

The reason I do what I do is because I was influenced by Steve Martin, by Woody Allen, by Bob Newhart, by Carol Burnett, by Lucille Ball.
Ellen DeGeneres

Reason, Influenced, Bob

A lifetime contract for a coach means if you're ahead in the third quarter and moving the ball, they can't fire you.
Lou Holtz

Moving, Fire, Means

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

Win, Stars, Found

There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all.
Ogden Nash

Happiness, Conscience, Either

Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.
Woodrow Wilson

Game, Control, Purpose

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