I learned to hit with a broomstick and a ball of tape and I could always get that bat on the ball.
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
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.
A man with a club [bat] is a law-maker, a man to be obeyed, but not necessarily conciliated.
To make my ODI debut was very special. Yes, I would've loved to get an opportunity to bat in that game but the situation demanded a partnership at the time.
What the hell kind of man decides to dress up as a bat and run around the city? There's got to be something a little bit loose in there.
You know, I'm from Boston, and in Boston, you are born with a baseball bat in your hand.
Baseball is very big with my people. It figures. It's the only way we can get to shake a bat at a white man without starting a riot.
Used to be bats had thick handles and a big barrel. Then they found it's not the size of the bat that gets home runs - it's the speed with which you can swing it.
When are the world's political parties going to get appropriate symbols: snake, louse, jackal, ... trash can, clown face, ... dollar bill with bat wings on it?
You can shake a dozen glove men out of a tree, but the bat separates the men from the boys.
I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.
That contest between bat and ball, we don't want to lose that or get further away from that even contest.
I'll always be grateful for the dream season of 1986. In a corner of my mind I will stand forever with my bat cocked, waiting for the two-one pitch from Calvin Schiraldi.
I don't think that I've scored these many runs or I've achieved these things, because I believe it is something that doesn't help me. Whenever I go out to bat, it's a fresh start.
It has been a great honour to play for the West Indies, to hold a bat and to spend 17 years in international cricket. That is something I am proud of.
Other crack teams get bat boomerangs and wall-climbing powers; we get Aquatruck.
It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square.
A Bat meeting any one running away, signifies an evasion: for although she have no wings, yet she flies.
You're going to bat so many times during a season and it's not worth getting mad about. I still get frustrated, but I try not to let the other team know that.
No one can act like Bachchan saab or bat like Virender Sehwag.
The first question that comes out of everybody's mouth, 'Did you bite the head off a bat?' And I did, so, next.
I always listen to music before I go out to bat. Any track, really, just whatever I feel like at the time.
Are you tall? Are you strong? How big are your hands? You must be honest with yourself or you will end up using the wrong bat.
When I find the motherfucker who tortured an innocent cat to death just to send us a warning, I'm going to clobber him with a baseball bat
When I came up to bat with three men on and two outs in the ninth, I looked in the other team's dugout and they were already in street clothes.
I always tell myself to bat the full day, and if there is a ball to be hit, just hit it.
Baseball just a came as simple as a ball and bat. Yet, as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. A sport, a business and sometimes almost even a religion.
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.
Production is a different thing. Being a Coach is different from actually getting on the field with a bat and playing upfront.
Sometimes, you tend to hold back, maybe because you have lost a few wickets or something. But when I bat, I'm never shy of doing what my mind says.
The NFL is part of the pop culture landscape, so sports fans don't bat an eye when you stop in the middle of a piece to talk about a new movie.
He (Eric Davis) gets power from his bat speed.....it's like he has cork in his arms.
They give you a round bat and they throw you a round ball. And they tell you to hit it square.
One of the things that attracted me to Barack [Obama] was his emotional honesty. Right off the bat he said what he felt. There are no games with him - he is who he appears to be.
You obviously want the results but you must do your job in every at-bat and deal with what every situation dictates.
When we decided to make 'DMC5,' one of the things we said off the bat is, 'Let's make a new character.'
A brilliant idea without action is like Mark McGwire playing baseball without a bat.
There are plenty of things you can do to help animals! The best advice that I can give right off the bat is not to get overwhelmed and feel bad when you read about all the issues.
Each time I go back to bat, I will want to get more and more runs.
What can I do, I asked myself, that is so spectacular that no one will be able to say he had seen it before? The answer was perfectly obvious. I would send a midget up to bat.
For an opening batsman, it's important to hit a few balls in the middle of the bat and get a few boundaries going.
When I walk into bat, I should know that 'Yes, I've prepared to the best of my ability. I couldn't have done anything better.' That is when I feel that I am ready to go out and play.
As a kid, I liked making up stories, and I wrote a story about a kangaroo and a bat with Christy Chang, and she went on to become a surgeon.
I'm 5-foot-9, 180 pounds. I don't have much else to work with, so I just try to use my bat speed and get the most out of what I've got.
I'm starting to swing the bat now like I know I can. You can't really explain it. I'm just seeing the ball good and everything is going my way.
As long as I bat well and as long as contribute to the team's win, I will be happy.
I was never coached; I was never told how to hold a bat.
I'm not saying this in an egotistical way, but I think there's value in having a good hitter behind the plate and being able to put a bat at first base as well.
His eyes are wild, psychotic slits that bat-dance in your soul looking for good things to crush or bad elements to identify with.
Lawyers are like that famous vampire-bat, said to exist in Hungary, which seizes on a creature, and never lets go while there is blood left.
The harder you grip the bat, the more you can swing it through the ball, and the farther the ball will go.
They give you a round bat and they throw you a round ball and they tell you to hit it square.
I hated to bat against Drysdale. After he hit you he'd come around, look at the bruise on your arm and say, 'Do you want me to sign it?'
Maybe because I bat aggressively and go for big hits at times, people tend to remember my batting. But I have always done well as a stumper, too.
Babe Ruth made a baseball fan of me. I used to go to Yankee Stadium just to see him come to bat.
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.
I would love to be on a show where I'm allowed to play a character that you're not suspicious of, from the get-go, and who's someone that you can just relax with, take in and like, right off the bat.
Baseball is just a game, as simple as a ball and bat, yet as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. A sport, a business and sometimes almost even a religion.
Each bowler has his own pride when bowling in the nets but it's vital that you get ball on bat and then you are ready to use the opportunity when you are out in the middle.
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