Balls Quote by Gloria Whelan

Of course, in our grade school, in those days, there were no organized sports at all. We just went out and ran around the…

— Alan Shepard

When I was eight or nine, we had a goal in the back yard of our council flat. We used to flip it over…

— Jonjo Shelvey

One enjoyable consequence of being in the Scouts was that, at the start of each new school year, we had to camp out in…

— Michael Portillo

After a month or so in St. Louis, we were looking around desperately for a way to draw a few people into the ball…

— Bill Veeck

I have two brothers and we basically spent our lives playing in the woods, falling in ponds, getting chased by wasps and riding donkeys…

— Jo Brand

Living on reserve we hunted; we fished; we trapped. We lived off the land. If we didn't hunt, we didn't eat. In summer, we…

— Perry Bellegarde

We didn't do anything fancy. We just played blue-collar baseball.

— Lou Piniella

The Yardbirds came in to the Crawdaddy Club a week after the Stones finished their Sunday night residency. They had done it for almost…

— Eric Clapton

If we could shut down all sport hunting in a moment, we would.

— Wayne Pacelle

We had a good team on paper. Unfortunately, the game was played on grass.

— Brian Clough

I was being thrown to the wolves. Even though I did something great, nobody wanted to be a part of it. I was so…

— Hank Aaron

My family vacations were softball tournaments.

— Jennie Finch