Pele

You must respect people and work hard to be in shape. And I used to train very hard. When the others players went to the beach after training, I was there kicking the ball.

Brazilian Athlete

Toni Kroos

I like to create chances, to shoot when I play farther forward, but I also like playing deeper, as you have more time on the ball.

German Athlete

Salman Rushdie

Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

Indian Novelist

Diego Maradona

To see the ball, to run after it, makes me the happiest man in the world.

Argentinian Athlete

Gus Van Sant

Sometimes, the people who are helping you can drop the ball.

American Director

Gabriel Jesus

When I have the ball at my feet, I'm in different world.

Khalil Mack

The ball is the most important thing on the field.

American Athlete

Amari Cooper

I just have to protect the ball, keep it secure.

Jrue Holiday

I don't need the ball to always help the team.

American Basketball Player

Marcus Mariota

Used often when talking about children's activities and sports.

Playful Context

Different sports have uniquely designed balls, like a football or basketball.

Sport-Specific Balls

Phrases like 'on the ball' mean to be alert and efficient.

Figurative Expressions

A ball is a sophisticated social event with dancing, often tied to traditions.

Cultural Events

Balls usually require formal attire, such as gowns and suits.

Formal Dress Code

In informal slang, 'balls' indicate bravery but can be rude.

Slang Usage

They are often associated with masculinity, but used for any gender.

Gender Specific

To ball something is usually to make it round using your hands.

Action of Hand

You only ball tangible items, not concepts or feelings.

Physical Objects Only

A ball of something indicates a compact, rounded form, squeezed or wound together.

Compact Shape

Understanding 'ball' in baseball requires knowledge of the game's rules.

Baseball Jargon

 found this fabric and then I used a book like the cover of a book to make the mouse and these were handles on my parents cabinets and I just painted them white and then like a friend of mine was doing a play he needed a floury so can you make a flower and I said yeah sure I don't know how but I will and I found that it was like a tennis ball and I

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 Sure, that's easy. The ball will move upward until it gets to some highest point, then it will come back down and land in your hand again. Of course, that's what happens, and you know this because you have witnessed events like this countless times. You've been observing the physics of everyday phenomena your entire life.

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 Somebody gives you a you will look at a crystal ball, and you will see the future; the future will be accurate. But you need to share it with the world. OK, curiosity killed the cat, you take the bet, you look at the crystal ball. One hour later, you're sitting in a building of the national TV,

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 can teach us about the physics of the very small, is precisely because they are so very big. Fourth the physics of the very strange. Certainly what I've said so far is crazy. Okay, if there's anything stranger I think it has to be dark energy. If I throw a ball into the air,

What we can learn from...

 Uh-oh. He's playing a little too roughly, and Shakira screams, alerting her parents to help her. Her dad makes his way towards the ball of rolling fur and her brother stops. Shakira shakes herself and scratches herself to get the hair on her head back in place.

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 Right now, it might just look like a few floating balls, but before long, this technology could change your life, or maybe even save it. Imagine if your doctor could move things around in your body without surgery and without scalpels

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 Being able to sense time helps us do everything from waking and sleeping to knowing precisely when to catch a ball that's hurtling towards us. We owe all these abilities to an interconnected system of timekeepers in our brains.

How does your body know...

 A mass in space creates a depression in space-time, and a ball rolling across a depression will curve like it's being attracted to the other mass. The bigger the mass, the deeper the depression and the stronger the gravity.

What are gravitational...

 beetles work together to assemble a suitable dung ball as the centerpiece of their new home one beetle burrows into the earth to help the dung ball settle in this

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 to see a tiger hunting ball is extremely rare to capture it on camera