#ball

I played in Joe Louis in a playoff game. I played there when the roof caved in for half a season. The facility is great for basketball because it goes straight up, so you feel like the fans are on top of you. ↗

— Bill Laimbeer

#because #facility #fans #feel #game

The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball. ↗

— Doug Larson

#aging #firmly #get #grasp #never

Down the mine I dreamed of cricket; I bowled imaginery balls in the dark; I sent the stumps spinning and heard them rattling in the tunnels. No mishap was going to stop me from bowling in the real game, especially this one. ↗

— Harold Larwood

#bowled #bowling #cricket #dark #down

There are really only two plays: Romeo and Juliet, and put the darn ball in the basket. ↗

— Abe Lemons

#basket #darn #juliet #only #plays

Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns. ↗

— John Leonard

#baseball #basketball #cumulative #football #game

Some of the money going to the rookies can now be spent on people who have proved their worth. After all, the average playing life of a pro football player is about eight years and it is only fitting that the veterans get something for their efforts. ↗

— Bob Lilly

#after #average #ball player #efforts #eight

Ross Perot. I could have had a ball with him. ↗

— Rich Little

#could #had #him #i #perot

The British ballads became a new kind of form in their hand. And out of them came the blues, a new kind of song of commentary and satire, a song form which, after all, has become the main musical form of the whole human species. ↗

— Alan Lomax

#ballads #became #become #blues #british

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

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. ↗

— Pete Maravich

#basketball #been #brief #career #found