I'm not afraid to swing the bat. If they elect to pitch to me, I'm going to swing. I'm not as picky as Mr. Sheffield. I'll swing at something over my head. — Bobby Bonilla
The hardest thing to do in baseball is to hit a round baseball with a round bat, squarely. — Ted Williams
When you win the toss - bat. If you are in doubt, think about it, then bat. If you have very big doubts, consult a colleague then bat. — W. G. Grace
If you want to learn batting, bat with MS Dhoni. — Ravindra Jadeja
Hitting is an art, but not an exact science. — Rod Carew
It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square. — Pete Rose
Swing hard, in case they throw the ball where you're swinging. — Duke Snider
What do I think about when I strike out? I think about hitting home runs. — Babe Ruth
My theory of hitting was just to watch the ball as it came in and hit it. — Tommy Lasorda
To cure a batting slump, I took my bat to bed with me. I wanted to know my bat a little better. — Richie Ashburn
I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice. — Hank Aaron
Every strike brings me closer to the next home run. — Babe Ruth
Short Batting Quotes
If a guy is taking his girl for granted, he really deserves a slap, with a baseball bat. — Louis Tomlinson
My batting mentality is to see the ball and hit it. I don’t know what bowlers see while batting. — Smriti Mandhana
I have to learn from Sehwag how to play in the nervous 90's — Sachin Tendulkar
Well, boys, it's a round ball and a round bat and you got to hit the ball square. — Joe Schultz
I don't make speeches. I just let my bat speak for me in the summertime. — Honus Wagner
The American boy starts swinging the bat about as soon as he can lift one. — Tris Speaker
You just listen to the ball and bat come together. They make an awful noise. — Darrell Johnson
I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice. — Casey Stengel
The colour of my soul is iron-grey and sad bats wheel about the steeple of my dreams. — Claude Debussy
A gun is no more dangerous than a cricket bat in the hands of a madman. — Prince Philip
Batting Image Quotes
For years I took pride in being resilient, but that turned me into this guy who can get hit by a brick bat every morning and still look kind of cute.
Cricket Batting Quotes
Today if I'm a cricketer it is because of Sachin Tendulkar. Else, I would never have picked up a bat. He's the reason behind me playing cricket — Virender Sehwag
I had to remind Gary Kristen often that he was in the covers to field against Sachin not to applaud him — Hansie Cronje
Test cricket is bloody hard work, especially when you've got Sachin batting with what looks like a three metre wide bat. — Michael Hussey
I don't know about Cricket but still I watch Cricket to see Sachin play..Not because I love his play, its because I want to know the reason why my country's production goes down by 5 percent when he is in batting — Barack Obama
I've seen God. He bats at No. 4 for India in tests — Matthew Hayden
He has defined cricket in his fabulous, impeccable manner. He is to batting what Shane Warne is to bowling. — Richie Benaud
In many ways, Big Brother is the present day equivalent of a 1980s Club 18-30 Holiday - flirting, sunbathing, silly little organised games, and lots of people you'd like to remove from the genepool with a cricket bat. — Charlie Brooker
I can't really say I'm batting badly. I'm not batting long enough to be batting badly — Greg Chappell
You might pitch a ball on the off stump and think you have bowled a good ball and he walks across and hits it for two behind midwicket. His bat looks so heavy but he just waves it around like it's a toothpick. — Brett Lee
A run is more difficult to make than no save, because batting is in its nature a far less certain and reliable thing than bowling and fielding. — Ranjitsinhji
Baseball Batting Quotes
Yeah we're not together anymore. She has got - she has got a new boyfriend now. They just moved into together. And I've heard rumors that he is abusive, which makes you want to go over there with a baseball bat. And then blame it on her boyfriend. — Anthony Jeselnik
During my 18 years I came to bat almost 10,000 times. I struck out about 1,700 times and walked maybe 1,800 times. You figure a ballplayer will average about 500 at-bats a season. That means I played 7 years without ever hitting the ball. — Mickey Mantle
The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying, 'Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses.' She's got a baseball bat and yelling, 'You want a piece of me?' — Robin Williams
It's not fun to get out of bed early in the morning. When the alarm goes off, it doesn't sing you a song: it hits you in the head with a baseball bat. So how do you respond to that? Do you crawl underneath your covers and hide? Or do you get up, get aggressive, and attack the day? — Jocko Willink
Everyone has an enemy. It's why God gave us baseball bats. Well, He gave us trees, but we knew what He meant. — Christopher Titus
One night I went over to get some dope from some Hollywood tough guy. After I left, my son Scott, who was only fifteen, went over with a baseball bat to kill him. I was laughing out of one eye and crying out of the other. I thought, Who am I kidding? — James Caan
Guns do not make you a killer. I think killing makes you a killer. You can kill someone with a baseball bat or a car, but no one is trying to ban you from driving to the ball game. — Andy Rooney
My dad taught me to switch-hit. He and my grandfather, who was left-handed, pitched to me every day after school in the back yard. I batted lefty against my dad and righty against my granddad. — Mickey Mantle
Whether your name is (Lou) Gehrig or (Cal) Ripken, (Joe) DiMaggio or (Jackie) Robinson, or that of some youngster who picks up his bat or puts on his glove, you are challenged by the game of baseball to do your very best day in and day out. That's all I've ever tried to do. — Cal Ripken, Jr.
How to hit home runs: I swing as hard as I can, and I try to swing right through the ball... The harder you grip the bat, the more you can swing it through the ball, and the farther the ball will go. I swing big, with everything I've got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can. — Babe Ruth
Good Batting Quotes
In high school, I taught dance classes for 3-year-olds up to 16-year-olds, so between that and some bat mitzvah money, I saved up a pretty good nest egg to move to L.A. — Dianna Agron
We ought to take good care of everybody we have on the planet, but we ought to regulate the rate at which people join us. The old saying is, "It's the top of the ninth inning, and humanity has been hitting nature hard, but you've always got to remember that nature bats last." — Paul R. Ehrlich
I like hitting fourth and I like the good batting average. But what I do every day behind the plate is a lot more important because it touches so many more people and so many more aspects of the game. — Thurman Munson
Maybe I'm delusional but I'm usually funny. It's not 100% but I have a pretty good batting average. — Adam Carolla
His eyes are wild, psychotic slits that bat-dance in your soul looking for good things to crush or bad elements to identify with. — Irvine Welsh
I keep a lucky red rag in my pocket when I bat, which has been a good luck charm for a few years. — Steve Waugh
Rationality is not just something you do so that you can make more money, it is a binding principle. Rationality is a really good idea. You must avoid the nonsense that is conventional in one's own time. It requires developing systems of thought that improve your batting average over time. — Charlie Munger
Most great writers suffer and have no idea how good they are. Most bad writers are very confident. Be willing to be a child and be the Lilliputian in the world of Gulliver, the bat girl in Yankee Stadium. That’s a more fruitful way to be. — Mary Karr
My batting average has been good, so people ask how much luck is involved. I tell them when I work 14 hours a day, 7 days a week, I get lucky. — Armand Hammer
To me, form is not about scoring runs but how you feel about your game. Sometimes the runs are not there, but you know you are batting well, and that is good form for me. — Gautam Gambhir
Batting Average Quotes
God isn't really interested in our batting averages. — Dale Murphy
I've learned that getting what you want gives you a pretty high batting average, and leaves you plenty to struggle for. — Loretta Young
I never keep a scorecard or the batting averages. I hate statistics. What I got to know, I keep in my head. — Dizzy Dean
My own tastes happen to be in tune with what the public wants. I think that's the reason my batting average is so high, not because I've discovered some brilliant formula. — Cameron Mackintosh
I had a .200 lifetime batting average in the major leagues, which tied me with another sports great averaging 200 or better for a ten-year period: Don Carter, one of our top bowlers. — Bob Uecker
If I had done everything I was supposed to, I'd be leading the league in homers, have the highest batting average, have given $100,000 to the Cancer Fund and be married to Marie Osmond. — Catfish Hunter
I've always said when I broke in I was an average player. I had an average arm, average speed and definitely an average bat. I am still average in all of those. — Brooks Robinson
We're not going to have a perfect batting average and it's important that Americans understand that. — Michael Leiter
If your batting average is high enough, the Big League will find you. — Unknown
Bat Quotes
The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball. — Bill Veeck
Can I be cocky for a second? If I hit a home run 80 percent of the times, and you want to talk about the 20 times I miss swinging the bat, I’m okay with that. — Jon Taffer
The Bat that flits at close of Eve
Has left the Brain that won't believe.
The Owl that calls upon the Night
Speaks the Unbeliever's fright. — William Blake
He smiled, and it made his dimples come out. “I think I’m more Batman,” he said. “You know, what with all the bats and nighttime activities. And Batman is much cooler.” “Geek.” His smile widened. “You say the nicest things. Haven’t you heard? Geeks run the world now.” -BLACK DAWN — Rachel Caine
I've never fallen in love right off the bat. I get scared to say I love you too soon because it means so much. It means you're not seeing an end to things. — Leighton Meester
What Strauss is going through drives you nuts. If you care about your batting - which I'm sure he does - he will feel like jumping off a bridge and committing suicide — Bill Vaughan
I like to think of the world's greatest athlete coming up to bat against me - Tiger Woods, Wayne Gretzky, I don't care who it is - and I'm looking at him thinking, you have no chance. — David Cone
I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me! — Dr. Seuss
Star Wars is adolescent nonsense; Close Encounters is obscurist drivel; ‘Star Trek’ can turn your brains into puree of bat guano; and the greatest science fiction series of all time is Doctor Who! And I'll take you all on, one-by-one or all in a bunch to back it up! — Harlan Ellison
Batting Practice Quotes
It was always fun for me, I loved baseball so darn much. By the hours I practiced, you'd have to say I was working a lot of hours, but it was pretty near tireless fun for me. I'd rather swing a bat than do anything else in the world. — Ted Williams
All baseball fans can be divided into two groups: those who come to batting practice and the others. Only those in the first category have much chance of amounting to anything. — Thomas Boswell
I've been taking batting practice in my barn where nobody can see me, so I may be better than anyone thinks. — Garth Brooks
Our prep's not going to be any different. It will be optional batting practice like there was today. I don't want any more work. I don't want extra study. — Joe Maddon
We devote our entire lives to becoming good ball players. We take batting practice until our hands bleed. — Willie Stargell
You throw batting practice, you warm up pitchers, you sit and cheer. You do whatever you have to do to stay on the team. — Bob Uecker
My desires are simply I love to teach, I love to be in uniform, I love to throw batting practice, I love to be with the kids. — Gary Carter
The practice of our democracy depends on a sense of, and knowledge of, history in the same way that playing in the World Series requires a bat and a ball. — Lewis H. Lapham
I rarely hit home runs in batting practice, and usually when I do feel that good, I'll have a bad game. — Todd Helton
Some people enjoy taking a light stroll in the morning and that gives them relief and that sort of feeling. That is what I gain by practicing, by swinging the bat. — Ichiro Suzuki
Bat Mitzvah Quotes
I am terminally sentimental about graduations. They are more individual than weddings, more conscious than christenings, or bar mitzvahs or bat mitzvahs. They are almost as much a step into the unknown as funerals-though I assure you, there is life after graduation. — Gloria Steinem
I had a bat mitzvah, was confirmed, went to Jewish summer camp, I go to temple for the High Holy Days. I think, like most people in their early 20s, I kind of strayed away from it. I think once I have a family I'll be back into it. — Lizzy Caplan
There was a year straight where every weekend, I went to at least one bar mitzvah or bat mitzvah, and we would all go, and it was a lot of fun. We sneak some beer; we'd hang out; we would try to get with girls and not. And usually we'd just end up hanging out together alone. — Seth Rogen
The town I grew up in was at least fifty percent Jewish, so every weekend in the 7th grade, we went to Bar and Bat Mitzvahs. — Vanessa Bayer
When I am at home, I never go near the synagogue unless, say, there is a bar or bat mitzvah involving the children of friends. But when I am traveling, in a country where Jewish life is scarce or endangered, I often make a visit to the shul. — Christopher Hitchens
Everyone in my grade is turning 13, so there are bunches of bar and bat mitzvahs. They're very dressy. It's fun picking out outfits. One girl, for her bat mitzvah, wore a huge red ball gown! — Elle Fanning
When I wasn’t working on Broadway, I worked in a Bat Mitzvah dress shop and was the Cinderella of the shop - always cleaning and vacuuming! — Lea Michele
Believe it or not the war on Iraq is based on a sound scientific principle, The bee hive principle. Which clearly states that if you are stung by a bee, you should follow it back to its nest and then proceed to beat nest to a pulp with a baseball bat until the stripey little turd has learned its lesson. — John Oliver
I was in the show for 21 days once-the 21 greatest days of my life. You know, you never handle your luggage in the show, somebody else carries your bags. It was great. You hit white balls for batting practice, the ballparks are like cathedrals, the hotels all have room service, and the women all have long legs and brains. — Kevin Costner
I mean, I have done scenes with animals, with owls, with bats, with cats, with special effects, with thespians, in the freezing cold, in the pouring rain, boiling hot; I've done press with every syndication, every country; I've done interviews with people dressed up as cows - there's honestly nothing that's gonna intimidate me! — Emily Watson
Most songs have meager beginnings. You wake up in the morning, you throw on your suspenders, and you subvocalize and just think. They seem to form like calcium. I can't think of a story right off the bat that was that interesting. I write things on the back of my hand, usually, and sing into a tape recorder. — Tom Waits
I remember one time I'm batting against the Dodgers in Milwaukee. They lead, 2 - 1, it's the bottom of the ninth, bases loaded, two out and the pitcher has a full count on me. I look over to the Dodger dugout and they're all in street clothes. — Bob Uecker
Freud's theory was that when a joke opens a window and all those bats and bogeymen fly out, you get a marvellous feeling of relief and elation. The trouble with Freud is that he never had to play the old Glasgow Empire on a Saturday night after Rangers and Celtic had both lost. — Ken Dodd
If someone wants to lead a double life, they will find a way to do it. And they can promise you things until your nerves unfold and you can finally put up your feet. But it can all be a lie. There are no guarantees, even when people mean what they say at the time. People change their minds. People die. And the hurt is as real as a baseball bat. — Stephanie Klein
I struck out with two men on base. I was so angry, so frustrated, I turned and without even thinking about it, snapped my bat over my thigh. The bat split right in half. Afterward, reporters asked me if it was the first time I'd ever broken a bat over my thigh. "I broke an aluminum bat over my knee in college," I said. (I was just kidding). — Bo Jackson
You surprise yourself on some balls off the bat. You don't think you have a chance to catch it. And then your natural ability just takes over. — Mike Trout
Eye of newt, and toe of frog, Wool of bat, and tongue of dog, Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg, and owlet's wing, For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble. — William Shakespeare
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