Bats Quotes - Page 18

• The crack of the bat, the sound of baseballs thumping into gloves, the infield chatter are like birdsong to the baseball starved.

  W. P. Kinsella

  Baseball, Bird, Sound

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• Light itself is a great corrective. A thousand wrongs and abuses that are grown in darkness disappear, like owls and bats, before the light of day.

  James A. Garfield

  Light, Darkness, Abuse

  "General Garfield as a Statesman and Orator". Book by Garfield A. James, 1881.

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• Out of ten swings at the bat, you get maybe seven strikeouts, two base hits, and if you are lucky, one home run. The base hits and the home runs pay for all the strikeouts

  Marc Andreessen

  Running, Home, Swings

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• Curiously, only in sports do we agree to eschew technological advances, making rules, for example, to limit the power potential of baseball bats. We understand that technology will ruin our games, but we do not understand that it can also ruin cultures.

  Gene Logsdon

  Sports, Baseball, Technology

  Gene Logsdon (2000). “Living at Nature's Pace: Farming and the American Dream”, p.133, Chelsea Green Publishing

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• Failure makes excuses. Success just keeps swinging the bat.

  Marshall Sylver

  Excuse

  Marshall Sylver (1995). “Passion Profit & Power”

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• Most great writers suffer and have no idea how good they are. Most bad writers are very confident. Be willing to be a child and be the Lilliputian in the world of Gulliver, the bat girl in Yankee Stadium. That’s a more fruitful way to be.

  Mary Karr

  Girl, Children, Yankee Stadium

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• The first couple months, I was hitting the ball hard but had some awful, awful luck. You stay positive, keep grinding out some at-bats, get a couple to fall through, get a little confidence going and keep going from there.

  Dan Uggla

  Couple, Fall, Stay Positive

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• Why certainly I'd like to have that fellow who hits a home run every time at bat, who strikes out every opposing batter when he's pitching, who throws strikes to any base or the plate when he's playing outfield and who's always thinking about two innings ahead just what he'll do to baffle the other team. Any manager would want a guy like that playing for him. The only trouble is to get him to put down his cup of beer and come down out of the stands and do those things.

  Danny Murtaugh

  Sports, Running, Team

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• Whether your name is (Lou) Gehrig or (Cal) Ripken, (Joe) DiMaggio or (Jackie) Robinson, or that of some youngster who picks up his bat or puts on his glove, you are challenged by the game of baseball to do your very best day in and day out. That's all I've ever tried to do.

  Cal Ripken, Jr.

  Baseball, Love You, Games

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• Professionalism in tennis ... only resulted in making billionaires out of rude children, producing an onslaught of moody defectors, and a lot of guys with hair that looks as if bats slept in it... Meanwhile, my head swims with the thought that I have watched tennis progress from Don Budge and Alice Marble to Farrah Fawcett becoming John McEnroe's mother-in-law.

  Dan Jenkins

  Mother, Children, Hair

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• I am terminally sentimental about graduations. They are more individual than weddings, more conscious than christenings, or bar mitzvahs or bat mitzvahs. They are almost as much a step into the unknown as funerals-though I assure you, there is life after graduation.

  Gloria Steinem

  Graduation, Memorable, Funeral

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• Tara (Lipinski) got out there like a bat out of hell and skated her guts out. Michelle skated very well, but she skated conservatively. She skated great, just not fantastic. That was the difference.

  Frank Carroll

  Differences, Hell, Fantastic

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• Being with a small publisher has been huge. They bat for me for everything.

  Steven Amsterdam

  Has Beens, Publishers, Huge

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• I had been playing for a while, and I asked Louisville Slugger to send me a dozen flame treated bats. But when I got it, I realized they had sent me a box of ashes.

  Bob Uecker

  Flames, Dozen, Ashes

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• Bat doesn't hit ball, bat meets it.

  May Swenson

  Balls

  May Swenson (2013). “May Swenson: Collected Poems: (Library of America #239)”, p.495, Library of America

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• When people discover they are no good at baseball or hockey, they put away their bats and their skates and they take up amateur golf or stamp collecting or gardening. But when people discover they are no good at picking stocks, they are likely to continue to do it anyway.

  Peter Lynch

  Baseball, Golf, Hockey

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• I didn’t realize that one tragedy can beget another, and another — bright-eyed disasters flooding out of a death hole like bats out of a cave.

  Karen Russell

  Tragedy, Caves, Realizing

  FaceBook post by Karen Russell from Sep 01, 2014

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• The gap between bat and pad is so much that I would have driven a car through it... !!

  Navjot Singh Sidhu

  Car, Gaps, Pads

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• You obviously want the results but you must do your job in every at-bat and deal with what every situation dictates.

  Anthony Rizzo

  Jobs, Want, Results

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• We had some pretty good at-bats off Carpenter. We just couldn't find any holes. That's the way it goes sometimes. We were able to get some guys on but weren't able to get them in early. We did some little things right, we got some guys on, we got some walks. We take it one batter at a time and everybody tries to stay within their own limitations. We did that, we just didn't get the big hit to get them in.

  Craig Biggio

  Guy, Trying, Littles

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• A brilliant idea without action is like Mark McGwire playing baseball without a bat.

  Jack Canfield

  Baseball, Ideas, Action

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• By the way, I have trouble listening to what [Cheney] says sometimes because of the blood that drips from his teeth while he’s talking, but my response is this: he’s just angry because the president doesn’t shoot old men in the face. But by the way, when he was done speaking, did he just then turn into a bat and fly away?

  Alan Grayson

  Men, Blood, Talking

  "Alan Grayson: It’s Hard For Me To Listen To Cheney Speak, He’s Like A Vampire" by Elyse Siegel, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• Writing is not something you can do or you can't. It's not even something that 'other people do' or 'for smart people only' or even 'for people who finished school and went to University'. Nonsense. Anyone can do it. But no-one can do it straight off the bat. Like plastering, brain surgery or assembling truck engines, you have to do a bit of training - get your hands dirty - and make some mistakes.

  Jasper Fforde

  Mistake, Smart, Dirty

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• Coonskin caps, Yankee bats, the Hound Dog man's big start. The A-bomb fears, Annette had ears, I lusted in my heart.

  John Fogerty

  Dog, Heart, Men

  Song: I Saw It On T.V, Album: Centerfield

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• I made a mask out of my face because I didn't realize I was quite beautiful. God blessed me so. I practically destroyed it. I had to wear heavy black eyelashes like bat wings, and dark lines under my eyes, and cut all my hair off, my long dark hair. Cut it off and strip it silver and blonde. All those little maneuvers I did out of things that were happening in my life that upset me.

  Edie Sedgwick

  Beautiful, Blessed, Eye

  "Edie : American Girl". Book by Jean Stein and George Plimpton, 1982.

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