#ball

I'm a minicamp body in 102-degree heat getting screamed at by the only other man my size: a middle-aged receivers coach they call Bow Wow. ↗

— Christopher Harris

#football #literary #age

Now, granted, Howard doesn't fit the conventional psychological profile of a rebounder - that of the no-nonsense, utilitarian "dirty work" specialist. Rather, this is a guy who sings Beyoncé at the free throw line, who quotes not Scarface but Finding Nemo, whose idea of humor is ordering 10 pizzas to be delivered to another player's hotel room, or knocking on teammates' doors and sprinting off down the hall, giggling. He goofs around during practice, during press conferences and during team shootarounds, for which Magic coach Stan Van Gundy has had to institute a no-flatulence rule because, as teammate Rashard Lewis says, "Dwight really likes to cut the cheese. ↗

— Chris Ballard

#humor #nonfiction #art

The club is not a business. It's a populist democracy. ↗

— Simon Kuper

#economy #football-clubs #business

Kai cleared his throat. Stood straighter. "I assume you are going to the ball?" "I-I don't know. I mean, no. No, I'm sorry, I'm not going to the ball." Kai drew back, confused. "Oh well...but...maybe you would change your mind? Because I am, you know." "The prince." "Not bragging," he said quickly. "Just a fact. ↗

— Marissa Meyer

#cinder #kai #prince #change

I make love with the accuracy of Joe Montana, and from a distance of up to 100 yards. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#football #joe-montana #love #sex #change

I've cut my teeth as a coach with some great head coaches and some great co-workers and I have been very lucky to have learned a lot of football from all of the above. ↗

— Mike Tice

#been #co-workers #coach #coaches #cut

What a rush it was to plunge into the bin of official decision and cast a ballot in favor of FUN. ↗

— Wavy Gravy

#bin #cast #decision #favor #fun

I think baseball - the baseball genre - is this mitt, to use a double pun there, to catch a whole bunch of themes. ↗

— Rachel Griffiths

#bunch #catch #double #genre #i

The ballet makes us look at those bodies, it makes us listen to that music, it makes us wonder at the geometry, of the way they come together. The way that extraordinary space is controlled and given such emotional force. ↗

— John Guare

#bodies #come #controlled #emotional #extraordinary

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

#anyways #ball #being #bounds #down