Bats Quotes - Page 10

• Young man, if that bat comes down, you're out of the game

  Bill Klem

  Baseball, Men, Games

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• The beanball is one of the meanest things on Earth and no decent fellow would use it. The beanball is a potential murderer. If I were a batter and thought the pitcher really tried to bean me, I'd be inclined to wait for him outside the park with a baseball bat.

  Walter Johnson

  Baseball, Waiting, Use

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• When the ball is over the middle of the plate, the batter is hitting it with the sweet part of the bat. When it's inside, he's hitting it with the part of the bat from the handle to the trademark. When it's outside, he's hitting it with the end of the bat. You've got to keep the ball away from the sweet part of the bat. To do that, the pitcher has to move the hitter off the plate.

  Don Drysdale

  Sweet, Moving, Balls

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• If I ever modelled for Calvin Klein I'd give myself to a flock of fans to beat me silly with a baseball bat.

  Joey Jordison

  Baseball, Silly, Giving

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• You take all the offensive linemen and put them in a burlap bag, and then you take a baseball bat and beat on the bag. You’re sacking them. You’re bagging them. And that’s what you’re doing with a quarterback.

  Deacon Jones

  Baseball, Bags, Offensive

  "Deacon Jones Dies at 74; Made Quarterback Sack Brutal and Enthralling" by Richard Goldstein, www.nytimes.com. June 4, 2013.

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• I developed a term that is used in the game right now called sacking a quarterback. Sacking a quarterback is just like you devastate a city or you cream a multitude of people. I mean it’s just like you put all the offensive players in one bag and I just take a baseball bat and beat on the bag.

  Deacon Jones

  Baseball, Mean, Player

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• I want to hit the ball and I want to get at-bats. The results really dont matter to me.

  Torii Hunter

  Balls, Want, Matter

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• Amazing strength, amazing power - he (Ron Swoboda) can grind the dust out of the bat. He will be great, super even wonderful. Now, if he can only learn to catch a fly ball.

  Casey Stengel

  Dust, Balls, Wonderful

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• I like being close to the bats.

  Don Mattingly

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• I wasn't scared (during his first at-bat). I just told them (Mo Vaughn & Kevin Mitchell') to give me all that hockey equipment (forearm pad & shin guard respectively).

  Roger Clemens

  Hockey, Giving, Kevin

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

  Jack Canfield

  Baseball, Ideas, Action

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

  Steven Amsterdam

  Has Beens, Publishers, Huge

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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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• 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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• With a sound like a bat hitting a watermelon, pirate fist connected with pirate jaw and a gold tooth bounced across the deck.

  Gideon Defoe

  Gold Teeth, Pirate, Sound

  Gideon Defoe (2010). “The Pirates!: An Adventure with Scientists & An Adventure with Ahab”, p.12, Vintage

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• How do you combat a man with a firearm? You don't combat him with a golf club, baseball bat or a knife. You combat him with another firearm.

  Luke Scott

  Baseball, Golf, Men

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• Just because you're down to your last strike, you're not out yet. You can always do more. You'll always have more at-bats to take. That's true in baseball, in rescuing animals, and in life generally.

  Tony La Russa

  Baseball, Animal, Lasts

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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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