Top 204 Bats Quotes & Sayings

Adult bats don't weigh much. They're mainly fur and appetite.

I've seen God. He bats at No. 4 for India in tests

I think these are the most difficult games to win, just every at-bat, every pitch, it seemed like it was important. The at-bats that the Nationals had the entire series, it just felt like it was a constant 2-2, foul off three pitches, seven-pitch at-bats.

You just keep working and try to have quality at-bats.

Them bats is smart. They use radar!

And here Alice began to get rather sleepy, and went on saying to herself, in a dreamy sort of way, 'Do cats eat bats? Do cats eat bats?' and sometimes, 'Do bats eat cats?' for, you see, as she couldn't answer either question, it didn't much matter which way she put it.

I was 2 years old and already swinging bats and throwing balls.

Devils are depicted with bats' wings and good angels with birds' wings, not because anyone holds that moral deterioration would be likely to turn feathers into membrane, but because most men like birds better than bats.

If I go 500 at-bats and hit 10 home runs, then something's wrong.

All coaches religiously carry fungo bats in the spring to ward off suggestions that they are not working.

The hits and the misses. I just want to keep the at-bats solid.

I'm from Boston, and in Boston, you are born with a baseball bat in your hand. And actually, most of the bats in Massachusetts are used off the field instead of on the field, and we all had baseball bats in our cars in high school.

But make no mistake: the weeds will win: nature bats last.

Bats drink on the wing, like swallows, by sipping the surface, as they play over pools and streams.

I owe my success to expansion pitching, a short right field fence, and my hollow bats.

Nobody bats 500. We all make mistakes.

I'm trying to put together quality at-bats and hit the ball hard somewhere.

I now know what Sachin Tendulkar feels every time he bats in India.

Hitting at the top of the order is a good thing. You get more at-bats. I'm excited to see how this develops.

You'll wrest a burning sword from an angel, but you're afraid of bats?" "I'm not afraid of them. I just don't like them. They're...furry. Flying things shouldn't be furry. It's not right. And if I ever meet the Creator, I'm taking that one up with him." "That I'd like to see. Your one and possible only chance to get the answer to every question in the universe, and you ask, 'Why are bats furry?'" "I will. You just wait.

Now go away, or I'll get my friends the Bats to bite you.

I feel good. At this point, the only thing I'm trying to do is accumulate at-bats and get my work in, and so far that's what I'm doing.

I wrote 'Airborn' after completing three books about bats. I loved my bats, but what a treat it was to write about humans again. They could eat food other than midges and mosquitoes, they wore clothing, they slept in beds - all this struck me as wonderfully novel.

I like to keep most of my bats. I think I have about 250 bats, including my first - which cost Rs 2000 - a gift from my dad in 1998, when I moved to the hostel.

When you're in a slump, you do something different, just to try it. I remember one time I was in a slump, and I borrowed one of Henry Aaron's bats and hit two homers. I used my own bats the next night. I just needed a change.

Bats have no bankers and they do not drink and cannot be arrested and pay no tax and, in general, bats have it made.

It turns out, from what I hear, that roasted fruit bats are delicious.

He bats like a lightning rod.

I like being close to the bats.

For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.

I have played incredible knocks with the lightest of bats.

The fans know that I don't give at-bats away.

I'm just trying to put together good at-bats and do anything I can to help contribute.

What I need as a player is just to get at-bats, I think.

The beauty of the moonlight has no meaning for the bats and for the unfeeling minds!

My head was a condemned church with a ceiling of bats, but I swung from this dark mood to euphoria when I thought about leaving.

The dead elm leaves hung like folded bats.

Jealousy clings to love's underside like bats to a bridge.

At a wavering instant the swallows gave way to bats By the Ponte Vecchio . . . Changing guard.

It took us a little while, but we swung the bats well tonight.

We have found that bats adjust the timing of their sounds when they encounter clutter, and they seem to 'strobe' the world with sound.

Two bats were hanging up in a cave and one said to the other, 'When I'm older, I hope I don't become incontinent'.

If we keep continuously putting up good at-bats, the next guy will come through.

When we played the Dodgers in St. Louis, they had to come through our dugout, and our bat rack was right there where they had to walk. My bats kept disappearing, and I couldn't figure it out. Turns out, Pee Wee Reese was stealing my bats. I found that out later, after we got out of baseball. He and Rube Walker stole my bats.

You play 162 games so let's say 100 of them come down to the end where you see the game is out of reach one way or the other. I feel like the other 62 are close games so you're going to be into those at-bats. If you do that, that's 100 at-bats. That's almost a month worth of at-bats where you're not as focused as you might be in those 62.

In New York City, the common bats fly only at twilight. Brick-bats fly at all hours.

One of the first benchmarks in a season are far as at-bats is 100.

When I'd written my 'Silverwing' series - I'd imbued the bats with full human awareness and vocabulary.

I would order a dozen bats and there were times they'd come back with handles at each end.

Wind power, if not properly planned and sited, can harm birds and bats (although Danish studies of 10,000 bird kills revealed that almost all died in collisions with buildings, cars and wires; only 10 were killed by windmills). Alternative energy sources are absolutely necessary. Global warming will kill birds and bats, as well as other species, in much greater numbers than wind power.

With all my bats I like them to be bottom-heavy, so they help me to hold the line through the shot.

My dad had me in little baseball outfits and bats in the crib.

Words can be like baseball bats when used maliciously.

Derek Randall bats like an octopus with piles

I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.

I love bats! Women are scared of them. They think bats can get caught in their hair, don't they? But bats are the most beautiful of animals, extraordinarily delicate. Have you observed their brilliant little eyes, gleaming with intelligence, and their skin, silky as velvet? And look at all these delicate little bones.

Baseball began early for me. When I was 5, my father took two Little League bats and put them on a lathe. He whittled them down and sanded the bats so they were the proper size for my brother and me. He began by throwing tennis balls to us. Eventually, we practiced hitting and fielding at a field near our house.

And with a little sense of humor we can say that there are Christian bats who prefer the shadows to the light of the presence of the Lord.

Everybody has bad at-bats -- except McCutchen.

The colour of my soul is iron-grey and sad bats wheel about the steeple of my dreams.