Foul Line

In sports and games, foul line can refer to

  • baseball's foul line
  • basketball's free throw line
  • table shuffleboard's foul line
  • ten-pin bowling's foul line
    • the similar line in candlepin bowling
  • the foul line for the long jump

Famous quotes containing the words foul and/or line:

    “He was a thing to her so foul that all her feminine nature recoiled from the closeness of his presence, and her flesh crept as she felt that the same atmosphere encompassed them. And this man was to be her husband!”
    —Anthony Trollope (1815–1882)

    “Andrews: You married him only because I told you not to.
    Ellie: You’ve been telling me what not to do ever since I can remember.
    Andrews: That’s because you’ve always been a stubborn idiot.
    Ellie: I come from a long line of stubborn idiots.”
    —Robert Riskin (1897–1955)