Top 268 Batting Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on April 16, 2025.
Sachin was so focused. He never looked like getting out. He was batting with single-minded devotion. It was truly remarkable. It was a lesson.
I have no idea what my batting average was in high school, but I know it wasn't below .450, and that's pretty good hitting where I come from.
I go out there every day, take early batting practice, fly balls.
Most institutional investors feel compelled to swing at almost every pitch and forgo batting selectivity for frequency.
There were times last year when people looked at the scoreboard and thought my batting average was the temperature.
Teams can't prepare for me in batting practice. They can't find anyone who throws as slow as I do.
If any IPL team wants me to be a mentor or a batting consultant, I would love to do that. I can share my knowledge with the youngsters.
I rarely hit home runs in batting practice, and usually when I do feel that good, I'll have a bad game.
I would love to win a batting title. That would be amazing. Can I do it? Yes, I can. No doubt.
English conditions have changed over the years. Lots of runs are being scored in one-day cricket now in England, pitches are good for batting.
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.
In a perfect world, if I can get conversations done at a batting cage, there's exactly the place I want to be.
I'm still batting away on my politics for the Labour Party. I'm much further to the left of them than I used to be, but that's because they've moved, not me.
I love to score runs rather than defending or leaving the ball. That is an important aspect of my batting: I don't want to waste balls in any form of the game.
The closer I got to Essex 2nds, the more technical I got with my batting.
I am happy with my batting form. I have been bowling well, too, and have bowled long spells.
Preparation is not just about batting and bowling. You have to consider lots of things - the travel, the weather, the heat, the light, the sounds. You have to be comfortable with everything.
My own tastes happen to be in tune with what the public wants. I think that's the reason my batting average is so high, not because I've discovered some brilliant formula.
It's not as if we can't play bounce well or do well only in India. It's just that in one or two matches,the batting collapses sometimes.
I've always said I don't mind where I bat and I have exactly the same mindset when I'm batting seven as I would at five.
I've been taking batting practice in my barn where nobody can see me, so I may be better than anyone thinks.
Sometimes I need to look at the scoreboard to figure out whether I'm batting hundred-plus or whether I am on zero.
I like to score and drive in runs more than pay attention to batting average.
I have been up and down the batting order and it's difficult. People don't always realise that.
The most important thing is to keep our basics strong in both batting and bowling.
My kids would watch from the window and wave to me during batting practice.
Test cricket is bloody hard work, especially when you've got Sachin batting with what looks like a three metre wide bat.
It is difficult batting in artificial light with a red ball but it's a horrible task for umpires to make a judgment.
I began as a bowler and batting at No. 8 or 9 at Under-14, U-16 and U-19 levels, so to change myself was really difficult.
Let's face it, making movies is all risk. Most of the time, batting average-wise, the reward does not outweigh the risk.
You throw batting practice, you warm up pitchers, you sit and cheer. You do whatever you have to do to stay on the team.
In the old days, you know, they didn't have batting cages. And in most ball parks, they only had one runway to the dugout.
I never thought I'd rather watch England's cricketers batting for a draw than their footballers in the World Cup but it was a lot more exciting.
If Trescothick had tried to get me off the field when batting well, I'd have hit him with my bat.
Whenever I get an opportunity to play for India, I will give my best in both aspects - batting and bowling.
To cure a batting slump, I took my bat to bed with me. I wanted to know my bat a little better.
I tried to use batting gloves at the beginning of every spring training up until 1999. It just didn't feel good.
There is a lot of talk about how Twenty20 has changed batting techniques in Test cricket. But it has also had an impact on bowling.
On the road, we're hitting in the cages during our normal batting practice for our position players.
I'm not some little soft touch. I will never take a backward step when batting, but I want to be respected as a nice guy, too.
What I intend to do is to launch a batting academy. I have been a batsman throughout my life, and I can't open a bowling academy after all!
Playing at different positions is a challenge, and I've always believed that I can play in any situation and at any number in the batting order.
Children and even adults, when they like certain athletes, they can tell you about their batting average, about where they came from.
Working my way through different formats has not changed my batting approach much.
I loved captaining and trying to win games - but I wasn't enjoying batting any more.
He has defined cricket in his fabulous, impeccable manner. He is to batting what Shane Warne is to bowling.
So, I am concentrating more on the batting aspect of my game and trying to get used to playing the anchor role.
I have always been a player whose form goes up and down but at the moment I feel my batting confidence is at its lowest. Negative comments can affect you and they probably have.
You're not going to have a 1.000 batting average, but the way you get votes is, you just push and you push. I'm not afraid to do that.
I've learned that getting what you want gives you a pretty high batting average, and leaves you plenty to struggle for.
I've had a go at captaincy. Batting and bowling and captaincy turned out to be a bit too much.
In T20, you don't have time to get distracted - it's so quick, you have to run around in the field, and while batting, you don't actually think about anything else.
If I have a 100 percent batting average, you should fire me, because it means we haven't tried anything really noble.
Commit all your crimes when Sachin is batting. They will go unnoticed because even the Lord is watching.
I never keep a scorecard or the batting averages. I hate statistics. What I got to know, I keep in my head.
The Oval has always been a good batting track, and there's not much for the bowlers.
An all-rounder is someone who can make it to the team purely on the basis of his batting or bowling. Not both.
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.
I never had a coach teach me, my style of batting, nor do I believe in coaching at an international level.
You can never have a thousand percent batting average on jokes - it's just never going to happen.
