Bats Quotes - Page 17

• I was always a little hesitant to accuse people of loading a bat to hit a ball farther. I was always very hesitant to approach people because I never had any evidence that I had firsthand knowledge of.

  Joe Torre

  People, Balls, Littles

  "Larry King LIve", nypost.com. February 1, 2009.

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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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• I wish I had a rabbit in a hat with a bat and a six four impala!

  Skee-Lo

  Wish, Rabbits, Four

  Song: I Wish, Album: I Wish, 1995

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• When I walk into bat, I should know that 'Yes, I've prepared to the best of my ability. I couldn't have done anything better.' That is when I feel that I am ready to go out and play.

  Sachin Tendulkar

  Life, Success, Play

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• Wind power, if not properly planned and sited, can harm birds and bats (although Danish studies of 10,000 bird kills revealed that almost all died in collisions with buildings, cars and wires; only 10 were killed by windmills). Alternative energy sources are absolutely necessary. Global warming will kill birds and bats, as well as other species, in much greater numbers than wind power.

  David Suzuki

  Wind, Numbers, Car

  "Renewable energy requires strength of will" by David Suzuki and Faisal Moola, www.straight.com. November 4, 2008.

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• I remember facing him on opening day in 1987. It was Oakland at the Minnesota Twins, the first time I got him out on a breaking ball down-and-in and next at bat he hit the same pitch for a home run. I was telling my kids that story yesterday.

  Curt Young

  Running, Home, Kids

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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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• To survive, our minds must taste redwood, and agate, octopi, bat, and in the bat's mouth, insect. It's hard to think like a planet, but we've got to try.

  James Bertolino

  Thinking, Mind, Trying

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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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• When I'm at bat, I'm in scoring position.

  Oscar Gamble

  Position

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• If people got hit on the head by a baseball bat every week, pretty soon they would invent reasons why getting hit on the head with a baseball bat was a good thing.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Baseball, People, Reason Why

  "How to Seem (and Be) Deep" by Eliezer Yudkowsky, lesswrong.com. October 14, 2007.

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• I am really quite fascinated by echo-locating bats and dolphins and have always wondered how sound affects the unconscious brain.

  Evelyn Glennie

  Echoes, Brain, Dolphins

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• The Indian bowlers picked me for sledging when I was batting well. They called me school boy. But I was enjoying it and I had answered it with my bat.

  Mushfiqur Rahim

  School, Boys, Bowlers

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• If a cricketer suddenly decided to go into a school and batter a lot of people to death with a cricket bat, are you going to ban cricket bats?

  Prince Philip

  School, People, Dukes

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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 try to hit the ball along the ground, especially against fast bowlers. I also like the bat to come down in the right position and check if my body position is correct. If I'm really watching the ball carefully, then automatically I'm in a good position to hit it down the ground.

  Virender Sehwag

  Trying, Balls, Body

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• I will leave this shining life of cricket very soon. This bat and ball won't save Shahid Afridi in Grave

  Shahid Afridi

  Shining, Balls, Cricket

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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