Mordecai Brown

Dad played with me a great deal, as dads should do, and our chief sport was baseball. He bought me a hardball when I was three years old, and he used to sit in a rocker on the front porch while I sat on the grass in the yard, and we'd play catch by the hour.

American Athlete

Gary Herbert

When it comes down to hardball, we have a veto pen, and I've used it in the past, and I expect we will have opportunity to use it in the future. That's the nature of the business.

American Politician

Joe Morgan

I don't see myself as a Larry King or somebody. When you do interviews, sometimes it turns to interrogations. I'm more of a conversationalist, not throwing hardball questions.

Hans Haacke

Artists and art institutions have to learn how to play hardball. A democratic society needs a democratic art and we have a right to demand it.

German Artist

Ileana Ros-Lehtinen

Rogue regimes never respond to anything less than hardball.

Juan Martin del Potro

I come to play hardball at every event I play.

Argentinian Tennis Player

Kirstie Alley

American Actress

Indicates a no-compromise attitude in discussions or deals.

Tough Negotiations

Implies using strong, confident strategies to persuade others.

Assertive Tactics

Shows a serious determination to achieve an objective.

Serious Intent

Refers to a version of baseball with a harder ball and potentially faster play.

Baseball Variant

A physical team sport played outdoors, often in a field or stadium.

Outdoor Game

Highlights the competitive nature of the game, similar to professional baseball.

Competitive Sport

 political world and I play hardball Tibetans we see China in a different way our perspectives very different we have live side by side for thousands of years so we kind of know them better than

The Dalai Lama And...

 To do all this, you must have been a genius from the get-go, right? Well, I won't contradict that. OK, this isn't exactly hardball. OK.

Hardball