Top 807 Bat Mitzvah Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

Whenever I go out to bat, my only responsibility is to look at the scoreboard and think what India needs from me at this moment.

You only have to bat 1.000 in two things-flying and heart transplants. Everything else, you can go four in five.

I'm still very critical of myself, but I've learned to deal with it. You know that every at-bat is important, but it's not life and death.

I think competing gets overlooked sometimes. The competitiveness that you bring to a game and an at-bat, it can go a long way. It really can.

I'd like to see him go out and bat one day with a stump. I tell you that's what he's been doing all this while

In terms of how I want to influence the game, I try to have a positive effect with the ball or bat in my hand.

I will leave this shining life of cricket very soon. This bat and ball won't save Shahid Afridi in Grave

I love books with titles like, 'How Do You Spank a Porcupine?,' 'Arnie, the Darling Starling,' or 'The Bat in My Pocket.'

Bat, pigeon, ravens - I don't care about distinctions right now. Any fluttery, flappy thing is not cool with me.

When I see people like Pietersen bat, I wish that I'd freed up a bit as a batsman, but it's very easy to say now.

Trust may be in short supply after years of disappointments. However, improvement could come in a bat of an eye!

I think I should be able to contribute either with the bat, ball or with my fielding. I am comfortable doing everything.

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.

I like to be a bowler because I can't bat properly. After 17 years of cricket I have got the opportunities and made the wickets fall.

I was fortunate in college to play as a freshman, but in the NBA, not a lot of rookies are coming in and making a significant impact right off the bat.

If Trescothick had tried to get me off the field when batting well, I'd have hit him with my bat.

I just try to make contact with the ball. It's obvious that I like to swing the bat. I'm not thinking of taking a lot of pitches.

You bat your baby blues at tall, dark, and gruesome, and next thing you know, he's trailing you like a lost puppy.

You are recognized by your bat. If you are the best hitting shortstop out there, that's how you win a Gold Glove. That's the way it is. It shouldn't be-it's a defensive award.

The taps with the bat on the spikes are one for my grandmother, one for my grandfather, one for my little sister. Then the one on the helmet is showing faith in God that I can do it.

It's a pretty sure thing that the player's bat is what speaks loudest when it's contract time, but there are moments when the glove has the last word.

I am very happy. And also, I want to come out to bat in this kind of tough situation when everybody in the dressing room is nervous.

Kittens play with yarn, they bat it around. What they're really doing is saying, "I can't knit, get this away from me!"

The crack of the bat, the sound of baseballs thumping into gloves, the infield chatter are like birdsong to the baseball starved.

I sort of know my role with the ball but with the bat I've been up and down the order quite a few times.

I've literally had dreams of that moment since I was a kid, no joke, about stepping in for my first at-bat.

If I ever modelled for Calvin Klein I'd give myself to a flock of fans to beat me silly with a baseball bat.

I was going as soon as the ball hit the bat, it was lucky that it was a chopper. I just ran and hoped to God I was safe.

When you go to bat as many times as I do, you're bound to get a good average. That's why I keep my projects diversified.

[I had Bar mitzvah ]it was just me and my mom. And she's celebrating. And she's reading things to me in Hebrew. I don't know what's going on. And she's telling me that now I'm a man. And I'm like, does that mean I have no chores? And she's like, no, you still have chores, but you're a man. I didn't understand most of it.

Yes, Severus does seem the type, doesn't he? So useful to have him swooping around like an overgrown bat.

A School Library is Like the Bat Cave: it's a safe fortress in a chaotic world, a source of knowledge and the lair of a superhero.

I was the worst hitter ever. I never even broke a bat until last year when I was backing out of the garage.

Batsmen like Gary Kirsten, Boeta Dippenaar and Neil McKenzie have good techniques and can bat for long periods.

I keep a lucky red rag in my pocket when I bat, which has been a good luck charm for a few years.

Favorite Bat-gadget was probably the Batboat, because it was fun to get out on the ocean and run that thing around at high speed.

I won't be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat.

I don't know how I'm gonna pick up a bat again. I just need to be away for a bit and play with my dogs.

Obviously, success breeds more confidence. And it's pretty easy to be confident if you're getting a hit almost every time at bat.

I was much entertained last summer with a tame bat, which would take flies out of a person's hand.

I don't like to sound egotistical, but every time I stepped up to the plate with a bat in my hands, I couldn't help but feel sorry for the pitcher.

I guess the fearless side is always taking the positive option, with ball or bat. If you feel like you can take someone down, you go for it.

What a childhood I had. Once on my birthday my ol' man gave me a bat. The first day I played with it, it flew away.

You can't blame someone for not knowing what his or her job should be if you don't ask for it right off the bat.

All of my friends on the street we're Jewish. I went to a lot of bar and bat mitzvahs. I even learned a little Hebrew.

That's where I would love to bat, and I have always batted at the top of the order. Numbers one and two are what I am most comfortable in.

A captain has to be able to look a player in the eye before he starts his run-up or goes out to bat.

Test cricket is bloody hard work, especially when you've got Sachin batting with what looks like a three metre wide bat.

I grew up in the '60s, which was a creative time, so it wasn't that big of a stretch to go from a baseball bat to a guitar to a film camera.

No man with a conscience can just bat out illustrations. He's got to put all his talent and feeling into them!

I was someone who used to bat up the order. Due to different reasons, I started batting at No. 7, and that became a permanent slot for me.

I didn't wear a helmet because I wanted to show that the bowler wasn't intimidating me, and also that's just the way I liked to bat.

I wish we were smart enough that, every time we had an idea for a script, that it was great right off the bat.

When you're playing against a team like India you're always going to struggle, especially as they bat all the way down the order to No. 9 and 10.

You fool around with different pitches playing catch, but it's not the same when you've got to face some guy with a bat in his hand.

The Olympics are great for notoriety right off the bat, but your body of work is what people remember you for.

The bowler wants to win the game. The batsman needs to bat well to get runs. No question about it.

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.

I'm not a lawyer I'm a kind of mouthpiece/activist type, though occasionally they shave me and stuff me into my Bar Mitzvah suit and send me to a standards body or the UN to stir up trouble. I spend about three weeks a month on the road doing completely weird stuff like going to Microsoft to talk about DRM.

I've always been one to want a fair contest between bat and ball even as a batter, so if that's taken away I don't think that's great.