Bats Quotes - Page 4

• When you play this game twenty years, go to bat ten-thousand times, and get three-thousand hits, do you know what that means? You've gone zero for seven-thousand.

  Pete Rose

  Sports, Zero, Mean

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• You gotta keep the ball off the fat part of the bat.

  Satchel Paige

  Balls, Fats

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• I got rabies shots for biting the head off a bat but that's OK - the bat had to get Ozzy shots.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Inspiration, Humor, Rabies

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

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• I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn't my fault that I'm not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Change, Baseball

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• My pitching philosophy is simple - keep the ball way from the bat.

  Satchel Paige

  Baseball, Philosophy, Simple

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• The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying, 'Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses.' She's got a baseball bat and yelling, 'You want a piece of me?'

  Robin Williams

  Funny, Baseball, Tired

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• The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting.

  Hank Aaron

  Motivational, Sports, Baseball

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• One night I went over to get some dope from some Hollywood tough guy. After I left, my son Scott, who was only fifteen, went over with a baseball bat to kill him. I was laughing out of one eye and crying out of the other. I thought, Who am I kidding?

  James Caan

  Baseball, Eye, Son

  "James Caan: What I've Learned". Interview with Ross Johnson, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• We are starting off with our own different characters and our own laws and everything, looking at Bruce Wayne and how he came to be the person that he was and how he comes to be this man that jumps around in the Bat suit.

  Christian Bale

  Character, Men, Law

  "IGN Interviews Christian Bale". Interview with Todd Gilchrist, www.ign.com. October 15, 2004.

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• When I came up to bat with three men on and two outs in the ninth, I looked in the other team's dugout and they were already in street clothes.

  Bob Uecker

  Sports, Team, Men

  Bill Schroeder, Drew Olson, Craig Counsell, Bob Uecker (2016). “If These Walls Could Talk: Milwaukee Brewers: Stories from the Milwaukee Brewers Dugout, Locker Room, and Press Box”, p.46, Triumph Books

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• The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out.

  Lance Morrow

  Real, Doors, History

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• I never smile when I have a bat in my hands. That's when you've got to be serious. When I get out on the field, nothing's a joke to me. I don't feel like I should walk around with a smile on my face.

  Hank Aaron

  Smile, Sports, Baseball

  As quoted in the July 31, 1956 issue of "The Milwaukee Journal"; reproduced in "Baseball's Greatest Quotations : An Illustrated Treasury of Baseball Quotations and Historical Lore" by Paul Dickson, (p. 2), 2009.

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• I remember when we were doing the first Dragon's Lair, I got really involved with coming up with all the little rooms and what was the danger in the room and going into it with bats and spiders and snakes.

  Don Bluth

  Snakes, Dragons, Littles

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• Hit a home run - put your head down, drop the bat, run around the bases, because the name on the front is more - a lot more important than the name on the back.

  Ryne Sandberg

  Sports, Running, Home

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• Every child should have mud pies, grasshoppers, water bugs, tadpoles, frogs, mud turtles, elderberries, wild strawberries, acorns, chestnuts, trees to climb. Brooks to wade, water lilies, woodchucks, bats, bees, butterflies, various animals to pet, hayfields, pine-cones, rocks to roll, sand, snakes, huckleberries and hornets; and any child who has been deprived of these has been deprived of the best part of education.

  Luther Burbank

  Children, Butterfly, Animal

  Luther Burbank (2000). “The Training of the Human Plant”, p.91, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• Them bats is smart. They use radar!

  David Letterman

  Smart, Use, Radar

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• A failure becomes just one time at bat if you refuse to let it defeat you.

  Marv Levy

  Football, Nfl, Defeat

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• When you go to bat as many times as I do, you're bound to get a good average. That's why I keep my projects diversified.

  Walt Disney

  Average, Projects, Bounds

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• We'll probably only consider a handful of individuals. We'll bring up people who can accumulate either innings or at-bats, so we can hopefully gauge where they stand as a prospective Major Leaguer.

  Dan O'Brien

  People, Major League, Gauges

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• I think I play center field better than I do anywhere else. I have enough speed and enough reaction to know where the ball goes off the bat.

  Bryce Harper

  Thinking, Play, Balls

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• I'll pay to watch MS Dhoni Bat. Dhoni is not the next Gilchrist. He's the first MS Dhoni.

  Adam Gilchrist

  Epic, Ms Dhoni, Watches

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• I don't know how I'm gonna pick up a bat again. I just need to be away for a bit and play with my dogs.

  AB de Villiers

  Dog, Play, Needs

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• I will stand on, and continue to use, the figures I have used, because I believe they are correct. Now, I'm not going to deny that you don't now and then slip up on something; no one bats a thousand.

  Ronald Reagan

  Believe, Use, Statistics

  Washington Post On Bandwagon, Reagan Seeks to Stiffen Credibility Grip 20 April 1980 (A8)

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• Baseball is very big with my people. It figures. It's the only way we can get to shake a bat at a white man without starting a riot.

  Dick Gregory

  Baseball, Humorous, Men

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• It's a Little Leaguers game that major leaguers play extraordinarily well, a game that excites us throughout adulthood. The crack of the bat and the scent of the horsehide on leather bring back our own memories that have been washed away with the sweat and tears of summers long gone...even as the setting sun pushes the shadows past home plate.

  Mario Cuomo

  Summer, Baseball, Memories

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