How come youre eyeballs dont just fall out if their sockets?

Question: How come youre eyeballs dont just fall out if their sockets?

Asked by cheesybillybob to Antonia, Douglas, Hugh, Matt, Tom on 14 Jun 2010 in Categories: General.
- Tom Hardy answered on 14 Jun 2010:
  
  Because your sockets are smaller than the eyeball so they don’t fit through without pressure. Plus eyeballs are attached!
- Antonia Hamilton answered on 14 Jun 2010:
  
  the optic nerve and a bunch of muscles and blood vessels all hold them in.
- Douglas Blane answered on 14 Jun 2010:
  
  Because they’re bigger than the hole. There’s a lot more eyeball inside than you can see from the outside.
  
  The’re squishy though, so they can be pushed out if something else goes in hard. Nearly happened to me once when I was playing squash and the other guy whacked the ball straight at my face.
- Matthew Hurley answered on 14 Jun 2010:
  
  Your eyeballs are stuck in your head as they’re surrounded by ‘gristle’ really really tough connective tissue that while it lets your eyes rotate, doesn’t let the globes move themselves.
- Hugh Roderick answered on 14 Jun 2010:
  
  Because they are attached to your brain by the optic nerve and into your eye socket by muscles

Question: How come youre eyeballs dont just fall out if their sockets?