Bats Quotes - Page 13

• 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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• 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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• In the world outside this glass room, songbirds are feeding and resting in the trees. Some will take off tonight and not land until they reach Venezuela. Sandpipers, plovers, and broad-winged hawks have already left for Patagonia and Panama. Bats are headed for caves in Kentucky and Tennessee. Out in the Atlantic, humpback whales pass by on their way to the Caribbean. Even now, Canada geese are honking toward us from Quebec. It is a good day for the beginnings of journeys.Every time I look at you, I think, Now I cannot die.

  Sandra Steingraber

  Good Day, Thinking, Journey

  Sandra Steingraber (2012). “Having Faith: An Ecologist's Journey to Motherhood”, p.7, Da Capo Press

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• A lot of hitters stay away from the plate, some are close up, some are forward, some are back. The thing about hitting is this: You have to know the strike zone. That's the most important thing. Hit strikes and put the bat on the ball.

  Stan Musial

  Important, Balls, Hitting

  "Talking hitting with Stan Musial and Tony Gwynn". Sporting News Magazine Interview, www.sportingnews.com. July 28, 1997.

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• People have asked me a lot of times, because I didn't hit a lot, how long a dozen bats would last me. Depending on the weight and model I was using at that time - I would say eight to 10 cookouts.

  Bob Uecker

  Eight, Long, People

  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.51, Triumph Books

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• I love watching Virat Kohli bat. I love his aggression and serious passion that I used to have. He reminds me of myself.

  Viv Richards

  Passion, Serious, Used

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• Stop trying to find something in food that will make you feel better. I used to have eating disorders; I'd binge and purge all the time: fried oysters, po' boys, muffulettas, beignets, coffee and doughnuts. I tried to medicate myself with food when people made fun of me or hit me with a bat in school. I'd always turn to food.

  Richard Simmons

  Fun, Coffee, School

  "Pharaohs of fitness". Interview with Julie Deardorff, www.chicagotribune.com. April 18, 2012.

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• When I was a kid, I dreamed of using a bat with my own name on it.

  Jennie Finch

  Kids, Names, My Own

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• Hitting at the top of the order is a good thing. You get more at-bats. I'm excited to see how this develops.

  Chase Utley

  Order, Hitting, Excited

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• It took us a little while, but we swung the bats well tonight.

  Chase Utley

  Tonight, Littles, Wells

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• The first time I picked up a bat in a professional game, I hit a ball hard left-handed, and my first home run was so effortless, it surprised me.

  Chili Davis

  Running, Home, Games

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• There are certain things I can't do, certain pitches I can't hit. You stay away from them. You try to wait for pitches you can hit. The bat speed isn't what it used to be. You make up for it by using your head, working counts, getting ahead in counts and getting pitches to hit and hitting them hard.

  Chili Davis

  Waiting, Trying, Hitting

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• You fool around with different pitches playing catch, but it's not the same when you've got to face some guy with a bat in his hand.

  Chili Davis

  Hands, Guy, Different

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• I bought my son a bat for Christmas. On New Year's it flew away.

  Milton Berle

  Christmas, New Year, Son

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• If a dish doesn't turn out right, change the name and don't bat an eyelid. A fallen souffle is only a risen omelette. It depends on the self-confidence with which you present it.

  Lionel Blue

  Confidence, Names, Self

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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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• The fans know that I don't give at-bats away.

  David Ortiz

  Giving, Fans, Knows

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• Maybe because I didn't have a huge film career right off the bat, I've been able to create something different, which is so important to me. That's myself, my idea of who I am.

  Kim Raver

  Who I Am, Careers, Ideas

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

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• You always want to get at-bats. You always want to contribute.

  Jim Thome

  Want

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

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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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• 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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• One game, one pitch can change everything for a hitter. The way I like to approach it is that every at-bat is its own unique opportunity to go out there and do something really good.

  Anthony Rizzo

  Unique, Opportunity, Games

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• There are some people who might look better if you smacked them in the head with a baseball bat.

  Jared Leto

  Baseball, People, Looks

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• In New York City, the common bats fly only at twilight. Brick-bats fly at all hours.

  George D. Prentice

  New York, Twilight, Cities

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