Hitting Quotes - Page 2

I remember hitting Sarah Michelle Gellar with a right hook during my first week on the job. It was awful. They usually pair actors with stunt doubles to avoid things like that.

Eliza Dushku

Jobs, Hook, Actors

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I believe in the Church of Baseball. I've tried all the major religions and most of the minor ones. I've worshipped Buddha, Allah, Brahma, Vishnu, Siva, trees, mushrooms, and Isadora Duncan. I know things. For instance, there are 108 beads in a Catholic rosary and there are 108 stitches in a baseball. When I learned that, I gave Jesus a chance.

Ron Shelton

Baseball, Jesus, Believe

"Fictional character: Annie Savoy". "Bull Durham", 1988.

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To a pitcher, a base hit is the perfect example of negative feedback.

Steve Hovley

Baseball, Perfect, Example

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I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.

Rogers Hornsby

Baseball, Golf, Mlb

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Every player should be accorded the privilege of at least one season with the Chicago Cubs. That's baseball as it should be played - in God's own sunshine. And that's really living.

Alvin Dark

Baseball, Sunshine, Player

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I have discovered in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats.

Bill Veeck

Baseball, Moving, Games

Bill Veeck, Ed Linn (2012). “Veeck--As In Wreck: The Autobiography of Bill Veeck”, p.119, University of Chicago Press

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I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable.

Oscar Wilde

Unbearable, Reason, Unfair

Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.30, Wordsworth Editions

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When Steve and I die, we are going to be buried in the same cemetery, 60-feet 6-inches apart.

Tim McCarver

Baseball, Feet, Inches

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Don't tell me about the world. Not today. It's springtime and they're knocking baseball around fields where the grass is damp and green in the morning and the kids are trying to hit the curve ball.

Pete Hamill

Baseball, Morning, Kids

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He hits from both sides of the plate. He's amphibious.

Yogi Berra

Funny, Baseball, Yankees

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What are we at the park for except to win? I'd trip my mother. I'd help her up, brusher her off, tell her I'm sorry. But mother don't make it to third.

Leo Durocher

Baseball, Mother, Sorry

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It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square.

Pete Rose

Sports, Baseball, Athlete

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If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base.

Dave Barry

Inspirational, Funny, Life

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My dad taught me to switch-hit. He and my grandfather, who was left-handed, pitched to me every day after school in the back yard. I batted lefty against my dad and righty against my granddad.

Mickey Mantle

Baseball, Dad, School

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

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Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.

Warren Spahn

Sports, Baseball, Mlb

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

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My first year of pro ball I played in the Northwest league and made the all-star team, and the next year I played I led the team in hitting and was third or fifth in the league.

Kurt Russell

Teamwork, Stars, Years

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The NFL today has bigger, stronger, bodies than ever, moving faster than ever, hitting a stationary object harder than ever before - so the physics of the hit have changed.

Leigh Steinberg

Moving, Nfl, Stronger

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Anybody's best pitch is the one the batters ain't hitting that day.

Christy Mathewson

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

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All the time he's boxing, he's thinking. All the time he was thinking, I was hitting him.

Jack Dempsey

Funny, Thinking, Boxing

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I cant swing a dead cat without hitting a reporter.

Russel Honore

Cat, Swings, Reporters

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When I was in Van Halen I was hitting notes that were out of my range. I never went for those registers before until Eddie pulled it out of me.

Gary Cherone

Range, Notes, Vans

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Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.

Casey Stengel

Sports, Baseball, Vices

Quoted in Paul Dickson, The Official Explanations (1980)

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You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.

Harper Lee

Reading, Book, Jokes

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He couldn't see a belt without hitting below it.

Margot Asquith

Sarcastic, Belts

"Autobiography".

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Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.

Blaise Pascal

Sports, Men, Play

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