Bats Quotes - Page 9

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  A ball bat is a wondrous weapon.

  Ty Cobb

  Balls, Weapons, Wondrous

  Ty Cobb, Al Stump (1961). “My Life in Baseball: The True Record”, p.81, U of Nebraska Press

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• There is no one correct way to bat, and so of course there is no one correct stance for it.

  Stan Musial

  Way, Stance, Courses

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• I remember I autographed it to Mutt Lange, and I may only have put one t on Mutt. I mean, I'd never heard of such a name. I'm sure he must've thought that was quite funny. He must've known from that autograph, right off the bat, that I had no idea who he was.

  Shania Twain

  Mean, Names, Ideas

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• Star Wars is adolescent nonsense; Close Encounters is obscurist drivel; ‘Star Trek’ can turn your brains into puree of bat guano; and the greatest science fiction series of all time is Doctor Who! And I'll take you all on, one-by-one or all in a bunch to back it up!

  Harlan Ellison

  Stars, War, Doctors

  "Doctor Who and the Talons of Weng-Chiang". Book by Terrance Dicks. Introduction, p. 7, 1977.

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• One morning I woke up and found my favorite pigeon, Julius, had died I was devastated and was gonna use his crate as my stickball bat to honor him. I left the crate on my stoop and went in to get something and I returned to see the sanitation man put the crate into the crusher. I rushed him and caught him flush on the temple with a titanic right hand he was out cold, convulsing on the floor like an infantile retard.

  Mike Tyson

  Morning, Men, Hands

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• Then what shall I write? I can't just write that this happened then this happened then this happened to boring infinitum. I'll let my journal grow just like the mind does, just like a tree or beast does, just like life does. Why should a book tell a tale in a dull straight line? Words should wander and meander. They should fly like owls and flicker like bats and slip like cats. They should murmur and scream and dance and sing.

  David Almond

  Book, Writing, Cat

  David Almond (2013). “My Name is Mina”, p.7, Hachette UK

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• Everybody has bad at-bats -- except McCutchen.

  Kirk Gibson

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• We have found that bats adjust the timing of their sounds when they encounter clutter, and they seem to 'strobe' the world with sound.

  Cynthia Moss

  Sound, Encounters, World

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• I was going as soon as the ball hit the bat, it was lucky that it was a chopper. I just ran and hoped to God I was safe.

  Joey Gathright

  God, Balls, Safe

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• The Bat that flits at close of Eve
  Has left the Brain that won't believe.
  The Owl that calls upon the Night
  Speaks the Unbeliever's fright.

  William Blake

  Believe, Night, Scary

  'Auguries of Innocence' (c.1803) l. 25

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• Trying to analyze a situation without enough data was like looking at a photograph of a ball in flight and trying to gauge its direction. Is it going up, down, sideways? Is it about to collide with a baseball bat? Is it moving at all, or is something on the blind side holding it in place? A single frame didn't mean a thing. Patterns were based on data. With enough datapoints, you could predict just about anything.

  Marcus Sakey

  Baseball, Moving, Mean

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• Everyone has an enemy. It's why God gave us baseball bats. Well, He gave us trees, but we knew what He meant.

  Christopher Titus

  Baseball, Philosophy, Philosophical

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

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• You only have to bat 1.000 in two things-flying and heart transplants. Everything else, you can go four in five.

  Beano Cook

  Heart, Two, Flying

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• You can't judge a man by watching him live. . . . I personally watched Babe Ruth at bat three times, and he struck out every time. But at the very time that I was watching him strike out, the record said that he was the greatest home-run king who ever lived.

  Sterling W Sill

  Life, Running, Kings

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• I was never coached; I was never told how to hold a bat.

  Donald Bradman

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• Jacques Rudolph at the moment is using the inside edge as much as the middle of the bat.

  Ian Botham

  Rudolph, Moments, Middle

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• I'll always be grateful for the dream season of 1986. In a corner of my mind I will stand forever with my bat cocked, waiting for the two-one pitch from Calvin Schiraldi.

  Gary Carter

  Dream, Grateful, Two

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• Whenever you study composition you inevitably encounter Bach right off the bat. You can't get across the room without running into him and the other greats. Analyzing Bach absolutely influenced my jazz playing.

  Howard Roberts

  Music, Running, Encounters

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• Trust may be in short supply after years of disappointments. However, improvement could come in a bat of an eye!

  Jon Jones

  Trust, Disappointment, Eye

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• I have an Alka-Seltzer bat. You know-plop, plop, fizz, fizz, when the pitcher sees me walking up there he says, 'Oh, what a relief it is'.

  Andy Van Slyke

  Baseball, Relief, Pitcher

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• 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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