Bats Quotes - Page 2

• To cure a batting slump, I took my bat to bed with me. I wanted to know my bat a little better.

  Richie Ashburn

  Bed, Slumps, Littles

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• I keep a lucky red rag in my pocket when I bat, which has been a good luck charm for a few years.

  Steve Waugh

  Sports, Good Luck, Years

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• The American boy starts swinging the bat about as soon as he can lift one.

  Tris Speaker

  Baseball, Boys, Tris

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

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  I never smile when I have a bat in my hands. That's when you've got to be serious.

  Hank Aaron

  Smile, Baseball, Hands

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

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• What can I do, I asked myself, that is so spectacular that no one will be able to say he had seen it before? The answer was perfectly obvious. I would send a midget up to bat.

  Bill Veeck

  Answers, Able, Euthanasia

  Bill Veeck, Ed Linn (2012). “Veeck--As In Wreck: The Autobiography of Bill Veeck”, p.12, University of Chicago Press

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• It's a pretty sure thing that the player's bat is what speaks loudest when it's contract time, but there are moments when the glove has the last word.

  Brooks Robinson

  Baseball, Player, Lasts

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• You know, when I was a young boy I used to play baseball in my back yard or in the street with my brothers or the neighborhood kids. We used broken bats and plastic golf balls and played for hours and hours.

  Robin Yount

  Sports, Baseball, Brother

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• When I get the record, all it will make me is the player with the most hits. I'm also the player with the most at bats and the most outs. I never said I was a greater player than (Ty) Cobb.

  Pete Rose

  Player, Records, Said

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• Your bat is your life. It's your weapon. You don't want to go into battle with anything that feels less than perfect

  Lou Brock

  Perfect, Battle, Want

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• The Olympics are great for notoriety right off the bat, but your body of work is what people remember you for.

  Brian Boitano

  Sports, Remember You, Remembers You

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

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• You just listen to the ball and bat come together. They make an awful noise.

  Darrell Johnson

  Sports, Psychology, Together

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• If Trescothick had tried to get me off the field when batting well, I'd have hit him with my bat.

  Geoffrey Boycott

  Athlete, Fields, Wells

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• Clearly you need a new team to go out to bat on your behalf; to fight for your rights and to report back to you personally and to the leadership of the IFP.

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi

  Team, Fighting, Rights

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• I touched Roger's bat and held it to my heart. My bat will lie next to his. I'm damn proud of that.

  Mark McGwire

  Sports, Lying, Heart

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

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• I don't bat an eye at stuff like that. I've had my share of wins. If I worried about the games I should have won, it would probably drive me crazy. It was a fun game to pitch in.

  Roger Clemens

  Fun, Crazy, Eye

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• I had immediate success in the sense that I sold something right off the bat. I thought it was going to be a piece of cake and it really wasn't. I have drawers full of - or I did have - drawers full of rejection slips.

  Fred Saberhagen

  Cake, Rejection, Pieces

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• I had a bat mitzvah, was confirmed, went to Jewish summer camp, I go to temple for the High Holy Days. I think, like most people in their early 20s, I kind of strayed away from it. I think once I have a family I'll be back into it

  Lizzy Caplan

  Summer, Thinking, Holy Days

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

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• A full mind is an empty bat.

  Branch Rickey

  Baseball, Mind, Empty

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• Well, boys, it's a round ball and a round bat and you got to hit the ball square.

  Joe Schultz

  Baseball, Boys, Squares

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• I've seen God. He bats at No. 4 for India in tests

  Matthew Hayden

  India, Tests, Cricketers

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• I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!

  Dr. Seuss

  Life, Positive, Success

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• Baseball is just a game, as simple as a ball and bat, yet as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. A sport, a business and sometimes almost even a religion.

  Ernie Harwell

  Sports, Baseball, Simple

  "Ernie Harwell, in His Own Words" by Tyler Kepner, bats.blogs.nytimes.com. May 4, 2010.

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• When you're in Los Angeles, nobody bats an eye, they're so used to seeing actors, they just act really cool.

  Luke Wilson

  Eye, Insomnia, Actors

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

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• I don't understand the whole dating thing. I know right off the bat if I'm interested in someone, and I don't want them to waste their money on me and take me out to eat if I know I'm not interested in that person.

  Britney Spears

  Dating, Want, Waste

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• The bat is gone, but the smile remains.

  Willie Stargell

  Smile, Sports, Gone

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