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:
“How do you know what the world is like? Do you know the world is a foul sty? Do you know if you rip the fronts off houses you’d find swine? The world is a hell. What does it matter what happens in it?”
—Thornton Wilder (1897–1975)
“Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. Many will read the book before one thinks of quoting a passage. As soon as he has done this, that line will be quoted east and west.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)