#ball

My first job after my retirement from baseball was as a narrator for the Eastman Philharmonica. ↗

— Willie Stargell

#baseball #eastman #first #job #narrator

They give you a round bat and they throw you a round ball and they tell you to hit it square. ↗

— Willie Stargell

#bat #give #hit #round #square

We devote our entire lives to becoming good ball players. We take batting practice until our hands bleed. ↗

— Willie Stargell

#batting #becoming #bleed #devote #entire

During the course of my football and business careers, I have had the great honor of meeting and associating with many outstanding leaders. ↗

— Bart Starr

#careers #course #during #football #great

I'm heavier, but with muscle rather than flab. It's a massive difference. It means I don't get as tired sometimes and it means that I'm hitting the ball a lot farther, about 15 yards more with my driver. ↗

— Lee Westwood

#ball #difference #driver #farther #get

Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#army #ball games #banners #despair #field

As for football in L.A., it's going to take a loooong time before another team comes here. ↗

— Leigh Steinberg

#before #comes #football #going #here

Cameron was able to get an inside look at professional football from the standpoint of athletes and agents and general managers that few people have ever seen. ↗

— Leigh Steinberg

#agents #athletes #cameron #ever #few

Now we're getting a whole generation of kids who have never had a football team in L.A., so they don't miss it and don't ask for it. It becomes self-perpetuating. They don't know what they're missing. ↗

— Leigh Steinberg

#becomes #football #football team #generation #getting

Then I went to UCLA - so of course I became a huge Bruin basketball fan... and later came to football. ↗

— Leigh Steinberg

#became #came #course #fan #football