#ball

There was endless action - not just football, but sailboats, tennis and other things: movement. There was endless talk - the ambassador at the head of the table laying out the prevailing wisdom, but everyone else weighing in with their opinions and taking part. ↗

— Charles Spalding

#action #ambassador #else #endless #everyone

The new Congress needs to move quickly to strengthen the Army and Marines - not to send more troops to Iraq - but to rebuild our capacity to meet national security threats globally. ↗

— Mark Udall

#capacity #congress #globally #iraq #marines

Well, the odds must be against anybody being able to fly around the world in a balloon on the first attempt. All of us who are attempting to go around the world in balloons are effectively flying in experimental craft because these craft cannot be tested. ↗

— Richard Branson

#against #anybody #around #attempt #attempting

I grew up in Texas, obviously a huge football state. ↗

— Drew Brees

#grew #huge #i #obviously #state

After getting out of the service and going into baseball I never wanted to do anything else. ↗

— Bob Uecker

#anything #baseball #else #getting #going

Baseball hasn't forgotten me. I go to a lot of old-timers games and I haven't lost a thing. I sit in the bullpen and let people throw things at me. Just like old times. ↗

— Bob Uecker

#bullpen #forgotten #games #go #hasn

Every time I sit with our general manager at a baseball game, and there's number-cruncher and statistician guy - I'm sitting around - they start talking about stuff, and I say, 'What's that? I've never heard of that one before.' ↗

— George Brett

#around #ball game #baseball #baseball game #before

I could have played another year, but I would have been playing for the money, and baseball deserves better than that. ↗

— George Brett

#baseball #been #better #could #deserves

I've only read two books in my life: Baseball Sparkplug and Love Story. ↗

— George Brett

#books #i #life #love #love story

Any teammate of mine that had a kid and a boy that was capable of playing baseball, I think I set a terrific example of 'Don't do this' and 'Don't do that.' And that's one of the things that I'm most proud of. ↗

— Bob Uecker

#baseball #boy #capable #example #had