Bats Quotes - Page 15

• I have an Alka-Seltzer bat. You know-plop, plop, fizz, fizz, when the pitcher sees me walking up there he says, 'Oh, what a relief it is'.

  Andy Van Slyke

  Baseball, Relief, Pitcher

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• Trust may be in short supply after years of disappointments. However, improvement could come in a bat of an eye!

  Jon Jones

  Trust, Disappointment, Eye

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• Everyone has an enemy. It's why God gave us baseball bats. Well, He gave us trees, but we knew what He meant.

  Christopher Titus

  Baseball, Philosophy, Philosophical

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You only have to bat 1.000 in two things-flying and heart transplants. Everything else, you can go four in five.

  Beano Cook

  Heart, Two, Flying

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• You can't judge a man by watching him live. . . . I personally watched Babe Ruth at bat three times, and he struck out every time. But at the very time that I was watching him strike out, the record said that he was the greatest home-run king who ever lived.

  Sterling W Sill

  Life, Running, Kings

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• The proliferation of state concealed carry laws has evidently reduced the rate of violent street crime to a considerable extent. When the goblins do not know who is armed and who is not, their professional enthusiasm declines. Now that Britain has made sure (insofar as any law can so insure) that everybody is disarmed, the streets arem given back to the bad kid with the baseball bat. We hope they are satisfied.

  Jeff Cooper

  Baseball, Kids, Gun

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• I was never coached; I was never told how to hold a bat.

  Donald Bradman

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• Jacques Rudolph at the moment is using the inside edge as much as the middle of the bat.

  Ian Botham

  Rudolph, Moments, Middle

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• 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.

  Gary Carter

  Dream, Grateful, Two

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• Whenever you study composition you inevitably encounter Bach right off the bat. You can't get across the room without running into him and the other greats. Analyzing Bach absolutely influenced my jazz playing.

  Howard Roberts

  Music, Running, Encounters

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• I just hope, in all honesty, that Steve will walk if he hits it, you know what I mean? I would hate to be bringing up my bent finger as a controversial decision. I hope he'll go nice and easy - caught in the covers or bowled middle stump. I just hope he doesn't get his pads in the way or his bat's wide enough to get a thin edge [on Steve Waugh's last innings]

  Billy Bowden

  Honesty, Hate, Nice

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• I played softball and basketball growing up. I really wanted to play football but both parents said no. I was mad for a second, then got over it. Now, just because I'm tall doesn't mean I can play basketball. I was waaaaay better at swinging a bat.

  Jordin Sparks

  Basketball, Softball, Football

  "Jordin Sparks loves her sports". Interview with Amanda Rykoff, www.espn.com. July 22, 2011.

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• Her voice was now so shrill only bats would be able to hear it soon, but she had reached a level of indignation that rendered her temporarily speechless.

  J. K. Rowling

  Voice, Would Be, Levels

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• The car suddenly veered off the road and we came to a sliding halt in the gravel. I was hurled against the dashboard. My attorney was slumped over the wheel. “What’s wrong?” I yelled. “We can’t stop here. This is bat country!

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Country, Car, Dashboards

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.535, Simon and Schuster

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• Good evening, Lord Corwin,' said the lean, cadaverous figure who rested against a storage rack, smoking his pipe, grinning around it. Good evening, Roger. How are things in the nether world?' A rat, a bat, a spider. Nothing much else astir. Peaceful.' You enjoy this duty?' He nodded. I am writing a philosophical romance shot through with elements of horror and morbidity. I work on those parts down here.

  Roger Zelazny

  Philosophical, Writing, Smoking

  Roger Zelazny (2000). “The Hand of Oberon”, G K Hall & Company

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• Yeah, size is no guarantee of power,” said George. “Look at Ginny.” “What d’you mean?” said Harry. “You’ve never been on the receiving end of one of her Bat-Bogey Hexes, have you?

  J. K. Rowling

  Mean, Receiving, Looks

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• I have thoroughly compromised your niece," Alex declared. "Will you plase insist that she marry me?" Caroline didn't bat an eyelash. "This", she announced, "is most peculiar.

  Julia Quinn

  Niece, Eyelashes, Alex

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• 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.

  Lewis Carroll

  Cat, Answers, Matter

  Lewis Carroll (2016). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland”, p.6

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• She's a sort of human vampire-bat

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Vampire, Humans

  P. G. Wodehouse (2016). “Expecting Jeeves”, p.47, Courier Dover Publications

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• Bat, pigeon, ravens - I don't care about distinctions right now. Any fluttery, flappy thing is not cool with me.

  P. C. Cast

  Ravens, Care, Pigeons

  P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast (2010). “Hunted: A House of Night Novel”, p.61, Macmillan

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• The streetlight outside my house shines on tonight and I'm watching it like it could give me a vision. James ain't talked ever and he looks at that streetlight like it was a word and maybe like it was a verb. James wanted to streetlight me and make me bright and beautiful so all the moths and bats would circle me like I was the center of the world an held secrets.

  Sherman Alexie

  Beautiful, Shine On, Circles

  Sherman Alexie (1993). “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven”, Harper Perennial

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• It was probably easier in the old days when the bad guys rode into town wearing black capes or whatever bad guys wore and the milk cows were ownded by honest people. Right off the bat, you'd know who you were dealing with. Now everybody dresses alike.

  Joan Bauer

  Wearing Black, People, Guy

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• You have to respect your parents. They are giving you an at-bat. If you're an entrepreneur and go into the family business, you want to grow fast. Patience is important. But respect the other party... My dad and I pulled it off because we really respect each other.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Dad, Party, Giving

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• Most songs have meager beginnings. You wake up in the morning, you throw on your suspenders, and you subvocalize and just think. They seem to form like calcium. I can't think of a story right off the bat that was that interesting. I write things on the back of my hand, usually, and sing into a tape recorder.

  Tom Waits

  Song, Morning, Writing

  Interview with The Onion A.V. Club, www.avclub.com. May 29, 2002.

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• Because we would not wear any clothes because it was so hot and the windows open and the swallows flying over the roofs of the houses and when it was dark afterward and you went to the window very small bats hunting over the houses and close down over the trees and we would drink capri and the door locked and it hot and only a sheet and the whole night and we would both love each other all night in the hot night in Milan. That was how it ought to be.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Dark, Night, Hunting

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