Top 747 Bat Quotes & Sayings - Page 4
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Last updated on November 9, 2024.
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 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 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 was much entertained last summer with a tame bat, which would take flies out of a person's hand.
Batsmen like Gary Kirsten, Boeta Dippenaar and Neil McKenzie have good techniques and can bat for long periods.
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.
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.
The bowler wants to win the game. The batsman needs to bat well to get runs. No question about it.
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 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.
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'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
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.
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 only have to bat 1.000 in two things-flying and heart transplants. Everything else, you can go four in five.
Test cricket is bloody hard work, especially when you've got Sachin batting with what looks like a three metre wide bat.
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.
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.
Yes, Severus does seem the type, doesn't he? So useful to have him swooping around like an overgrown bat.
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.
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.
If Trescothick had tried to get me off the field when batting well, I'd have hit him with my bat.
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.
I love books with titles like, 'How Do You Spank a Porcupine?,' 'Arnie, the Darling Starling,' or 'The Bat in My Pocket.'
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.
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 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.
I was the worst hitter ever. I never even broke a bat until last year when I was backing out of the garage.
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.
If I ever modelled for Calvin Klein I'd give myself to a flock of fans to beat me silly with a baseball 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.
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 wish we were smart enough that, every time we had an idea for a script, that it was great right off the bat.
Trust may be in short supply after years of disappointments. However, improvement could come in a bat of an eye!
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.
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 bat your baby blues at tall, dark, and gruesome, and next thing you know, he's trailing you like a lost puppy.
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.
Bat, pigeon, ravens - I don't care about distinctions right now. Any fluttery, flappy thing is not cool with me.
I always listen to music before I go out to bat. Any track, really, just whatever I feel like at the time.
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.
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.
The crack of the bat, the sound of baseballs thumping into gloves, the infield chatter are like birdsong to the baseball starved.
I think I should be able to contribute either with the bat, ball or with my fielding. I am comfortable doing everything.
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 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.
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.
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.
A captain has to be able to look a player in the eye before he starts his run-up or goes out to bat.
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.
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.
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 will leave this shining life of cricket very soon. This bat and ball won't save Shahid Afridi in Grave
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.
No man with a conscience can just bat out illustrations. He's got to put all his talent and feeling into them!
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.
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.
I keep a lucky red rag in my pocket when I bat, which has been a good luck charm for a few years.
Obviously, success breeds more confidence. And it's pretty easy to be confident if you're getting a hit almost every time at bat.