Bats Quotes - Page 19

• Obviously, success breeds more confidence. And it's pretty easy to be confident if you're getting a hit almost every time at bat.

  Troy Glaus

  Easy, Be Confident, Ifs

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• I'm starting to swing the bat now like I know I can. You can't really explain it. I'm just seeing the ball good and everything is going my way.

  J. J. Hardy

  Swings, Balls, Way

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• The fans have been great with me. I think they appreciate that I don't take an at-bat off.

  Mike Lowell

  Thinking, Appreciate, Fans

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• I went to college for a reason, and that was to skip the minor leagues. I spent a year in the minors and got my at-bats in, and then I felt like I was ready for the big leagues.

  Mark Teixeira

  College, Years, League

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• I usually don't look at at-bats where I get out. I look at my hits. I look at good swings I put on balls. Because of that good swing or good at-bat, I can see what I need to continue to work on and recreate.

  Mark Teixeira

  Swings, Needs, Balls

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• You're going to bat so many times during a season and it's not worth getting mad about. I still get frustrated, but I try not to let the other team know that.

  Chase Utley

  Team, Mad, Frustrated

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• The majority of the time with two strikes I'll choke up on the bat a little bit to try to stay as short as possible. It doesn't always work out like that, but that's the goal.

  Chase Utley

  Two, Work Out, Goal

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• When we are youths in the Dominican, we pick up bats and balls because baseball is part of what we grow up with. The fun feeling you get playing keeps your head up when you encounter difficult times.

  Vladimir Guerrero

  Baseball, Growing Up, Fun

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• I'd get me a bunch of bats and balls and sneak me a couple of umpires and learn them kids behind the Iron Curtain how to tote a bat and play baseball.

  Dizzy Dean

  Baseball, Couple, Kids

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• Hey there. Here's something familiar, a bat. Hope you like it.

  Koushun Takami

  Hey, You Like It, Familiar

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• My head was a condemned church with a ceiling of bats, but I swung from this dark mood to euphoria when I thought about leaving.

  Dave Eggers

  Dark, Leaving, Church

  Dave Eggers (2009). “You Shall Know Our Velocity”, p.2, Vintage

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• I didn't know if I still had it in me to be really dangerous, but I thought so. It's like knocking someone off a bike with a baseball bat; you never really lose the knack.

  Simon R. Green

  Baseball, Healing, Knack

  Simon R. Green (2003). “Something from the Nightside”, p.15, Penguin

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• I think of myself as 'catching' the ball with my bat and letting the pitcher supply the power.

  Barry Bonds

  Thinking, Balls, Catching

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• Spooky things happen in houses densely occupied by adolescent boys. When I checked out a four-inch dent in the living room ceilingone afternoon, even the kid still holding the baseball bat looked genuinely baffled about how he possibly could have done it.

  Mary Blakely

  Baseball, Kids, Boys

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• Part of that, I think, is being able to tune out folly, as distinguished from recognizing wisdom. You've got whole categories of things you just bat away so your brain isn't cluttered with them. That way, you're better able to pick up a few sensible things to do.

  Charlie Munger

  Thinking, Simplicity, Brain

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• I never sought to be a pundit, or on TV, or a writer-it just kind of came to me. If you just keep doing what you want to do, you wind up doing precisely what you want to be doing. Don't resist how life bats you around.

  Ann Coulter

  Wind, Doing What You Want, Tvs

  Interview with JD Jungle, www.lawcrossing.com.

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• Kittens play with yarn, they bat it around. What they're really doing is saying, "I can't knit, get this away from me!"

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Play

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• The way he's swinging the bat, he won't get a hit until the 20th century.

  Jerry Coleman

  Funny, Baseball, Humor

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• Finley is going over to get a new piece of bat.

  Jerry Coleman

  Funny, Baseball, Humor

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• If somebody is really trying to take your head off with a baseball bat - I don't know how long you're supposed to stand there and turn the other cheek, so he or she can get a better angle at taking your head off.

  Maya Angelou

  Baseball, Long, Trying

  "America's Renaissance Woman". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. January 22, 1997.

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• Children are very overprotected now, in lots of ways. We're very nervous about them. You know, people go, "Don't go outside! Or inside! Get into the cupboard with some spinach!" When I was a child they'd kick you out and you weren't expected to come back until there were bats!

  Dylan Moran

  Funny, Children, Humor

  "Dylan Moran: What It Is". Video, 2009.

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• You might pitch a ball on the off stump and think you have bowled a good ball and he walks across and hits it for two behind midwicket. His bat looks so heavy but he just waves it around like it's a toothpick.

  Brett Lee

  Thinking, Two, Balls

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• So he left the lagoon and entered the jungle again, within a few days was completely lost, following the lagoons southward through the increasing rain and heat, attacked by alligators and giant bats, a second Adam searching for the forgotten paradises of the reborn Sun.

  J. G. Ballard

  Rain, Giants, Paradise

  J. G. Ballard (1965). “The Drowned World and the Wind From Nowhere”

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• The hardest thing to do in baseball is to hit a round baseball with a round bat, squarely.

  Ted Williams

  Baseball, Hardest, Things To Do

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• Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight.

  Francis Bacon

  Twilight, Bird, Doubt

  Francis Bacon (1720). “Lord Bacon's Essays, Or Counsels Moral and Civil: Translated from the Latin by William Willymott, ... In Two Volumes. ...”, p.178

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