Top 142 Batter Quotes & Sayings

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.

Now I know that I don't have to go after every batter with the hardest pitch I've got.

Tony Gwynn, the fat batter behind Finley, is waiting.

The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made.

If I'm playing well I'll get through a bat in three weeks. I batter them.

The pitcher wound up and he flang the ball at the batter. The batter swang and missed. The pitcher flang the ball again and this time the batter connected. He hit a high fly right to the center fielder. The center fielder was all set to catch the ball, but at the last minute his eyes were blound by the sun and he dropped it.

I've spent the last decade learning to stand firm and face my problems… or at least batter them until they're unrecognizable.

We batter this planet as if we had someplace else to go.

But I was thinking of a way To feed oneself on batter, And so go on from day to day Getting a little fatter.

It's fine for a bowler to have a plan but I feel as a batter you need to have another plan to counteract what they're doing.

We may have been born on third base, but we worked like we were starting from home plate. You know: batter up.

What, and give him (the batter) a chance to think on my time.

Carlton does not pitch to the hitter, he pitches through him. The batter hardly exists for Steve. He's playing an elevated game of catch.

If a cricketer suddenly decided to go into a school and batter a lot of people to death with a cricket bat, are you going to ban cricket bats?

Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher.

When you step into the batter's box, have nothing on your mind except baseball.

I want to be a high-order batter in the one-day stuff, to play some long innings rather than just go in and have a swipe.

I like football. I like baseball. When the pitcher and the batter start fighting, that's the best.

But think of how much worse it would be to sit here, not knowing. Until the Dead choke the Ratterlin and Hedge walks across the dry bed of the river to batter down the door.

Baseball skills schizophrenically encompass a pitcher's, a batter's and a fielder's.

You realize you're up here for a reason, and no matter who's in the batter's box, I feel like if I can execute my pitches, I can get anybody out. That's what I believe.

I remember one time going out to the mound to talk with Bob Gibson. He told me to get back behind the batter; that the only thing I knew about pitching was that it was hard to hit!

When I start thinking in the batter's box, that's when I get into trouble.

Here’s the thing about baseball-it’s not the individual sport I thought it was. Turns out I was wrong about that. Yeah, the batter is a lone man against the world. He stands in the batter’s box like a soldier and it’s up to him-and him alone-what happens next. But here’s the thing I didn’t understand until I was forced to, until recently: In order to hit a home run… Someone else has to pitch the ball.

The pitcher setting up the batter. It's chess, and you play with it.

A tempura batter has a lifespan of only moments before the flour becomes too saturated with water and a fresh batter must be made.

I love a Yorkshire pudding. It's basically pancake batter that's fried in beef fat and puffs up; it's like you can't go wrong.

If the shortstop makes an error, I am responsible. I let the batter hit the ball.

AB de Villiers is probably my favorite cricketer, he is an incredible batter and a good friend.

It's not easy for a player who considers him or herself to be a proper batter to then adjust down the order. Put anyone there and the scores won't necessarily come. You can lose a bit of love for it, too.

When you go up there in the batter's box, you're engaged to hit. It's the same thing with baserunning.

Any pitcher who throws at a batter and deliberately tries to hit him is a communist.

As a batter, I just try to put myself in a bubble, not letting anything in from the outside, looking only at how many runs I can score.

The last batter to hit, blast shattered your hip, Smash any splitter or fastball-that'll be it.

He was one of my childhood idols, and I hope I can get in the ring with him one day. I'd love to batter The Rock.

You can batter your guitar, and it won't distort too much, which is important for me because I play with my hands a lot - I don't really play with picks.

All that analysis is well and good, but what I need right now is a left-handed batter who can hit the ball over the shortstop's head.

Watching a woman make Russian pancakes, you might think that she was calling on the spirits or extracting from the batter the philosopher's stone.

I shall await the first shot, and if you do not batter us to pieces, we shall be starved out in a few days.

I got quite into Spam once, in Korea. On their Thanksgiving, they give boxes of it to their friends. I fry it in batter with herbs wrapped around.

A good base stealer should make the whole infield jumpy. Whether you steal or not, you're changing the rhythm of the game. If the pitcher is concerned about you, he isn't concentrating enough on the batter.

Life is not as idle ore, But iron dug from central gloom, And heated hot with burning fears, And dipt in baths of hissing tears, And batter'd with the shocks of doom, To shape and use.

When I step into the batter's box, the fans, the noise, the cheers, they all disappear. For that moment, the world is just a battle between me and the pitcher. And more than anything, I want to win.

It's not really part of the game to say, 'Oh, it's a batter's game; it's a batter's game' - I don't know why it goes on. It's a beautiful game that's greatly competitive between bat and ball.

After tiny has tried ballerina pose, swing-batter-batter pose, pump-up-the-jam pose, and top-of-the-mountain-sound-of-music pose in the reflection of the bean, he walks us to a bench overlooking lake shore drive.

When I was in the batter's box, I felt sorry for the pitcher.

I think if a batter's got the better of you naturally in the back of your mind you can go slightly defensive.

Do not worry. Try to appear jolly and unconcerned. I have smiled often with the bases full with two strikes and three balls on the batter. This seems to unnerve.

Drum on your drums, batter on your banjos, sob on the long cool winding saxophones. Go to it, O jazzmen.

Fortunately, I was technically skilled, so I didn't have to bludgeon people, I didn't have to batter them.

The one unbreakable rule about hitting is this: if a batter hits well with his own particular stance and swing, think twice - or more - before suggesting a change.

Tis midnight now. The bend and broken moon, Batter'd and black, as from a thousand battles, Hangs silent on the purple walls of Heaven.

Krispy Kreme claims the 'batter is the best part.' Same with an Obama speech. It's all about what's on the outside, not what's inside.

If you could make a pudding wi' thinking o' the batter, it 'ud be easy getting dinner.

If they [Mexicans] touch the hair of the head of one of our citizens, tell him [Commodore Dallas] to batter down and destroy their town and exterminate the inhabitants from the face of the earth!

Oh, honey, if he swung batter-batter for my team, I'd be all over that in a heartbeat.

I managed a team that was so bad we considered a 2-0 count on the batter a rally.

Griddle cakes, pancakes, hot cakes, flapjacks: why are there four names for grilled batter and only one word for love?

As a batter, I would want to see that the best bowler is in my side so I don't have to face him.

I like to see a lot of pitches just to get a feel for being in the batter's box and seeing pitches.