#ball

Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words. ↗

— Archibald MacLeish

#cares #conventional #conventional wisdom #either #football

Humanity is the keystone that holds nations and men together. When that collapses, the whole structure crumbles. This is as true of baseball teams as any other pursuit in life. ↗

— Connie Mack

#baseball #collapses #crumbles #holds #humanity

When your arm gets hit, the ball is not going to go where you want it to. ↗

— John Madden

#ball #gets #go #going #hit

Baseball has been good to me since I quit trying to play it. ↗

— Whitey Herzog

#been #good #i #i quit #me

In the future, I see me as being my own artist and definitely not a ballad singer! ↗

— Thia Megia

#ballad #being #definitely #future #i

It's something you dream about as a kid. Like when you play all those NCAA video games as a kid and you create your own player and win the Heisman with a bunch of crazy numbers. It's the biggest, most prestigious award in college football, so it'd definitely be a dream come true. ↗

— Johnny Manziel

#award #biggest #bunch #college #college football

Pop knew absolutely nothing about pro football. ↗

— Wellington Mara

#absolutely #absolutely nothing #football #knew #nothing

I like English football, always have. It's just that people go on about the World Cup in 1986 and then I'm seen as the real bad boy. ↗

— Diego Maradona

#always #bad #bad boy #boy #cup

Things are neither clear nor clean in the world of football right now and many people recognise this reality. ↗

— Diego Maradona

#clear #football #many #neither #nor

My life had no meaning at all. I found only brief interludes of satisfaction. It was like my whole life had been about my whole basketball career. ↗