Batting Quotes

• How can you think and hit at the same time?

  Yogi Berra

  Sports, Baseball, Yoga

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• I have to learn from Sehwag how to play in the nervous 90's

  Sachin Tendulkar

  Play, Nervous, Cricketers

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• They throw the ball, I hit it. They hit the ball, I catch it.

  Willie Mays

  Sports, Baseball, African American

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• On a train from Shimla to Delhi, there was a halt in one of the stations. The train stopped by for few minutes as usual. Sachin was nearing century, batting on 98. The passengers, railway officials, everyone on the train waited for Sachin to complete the century. This Genius can stop time in India!

  Peter Roebuck

  Usual, India, Genius

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• If you're batting and you go off on one it can't really help you.

  Andrew Flintoff

  Helping, Ifs

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• My batting average has been good, so people ask how much luck is involved. I tell them when I work 14 hours a day, 7 days a week, I get lucky.

  Armand Hammer

  Business, Average, People

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• I had to remind Gary Kristen often that he was in the covers to field against Sachin not to applaud him

  Hansie Cronje

  Sports, Competition, Fields

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• I like hitting fourth and I like the good batting average. But what I do every day behind the plate is a lot more important because it touches so many more people and so many more aspects of the game.

  Thurman Munson

  Average, Games, People

  "The House That Thurman Munson Built" by Michael Paterniti, www.esquire.com. August 3, 2013.

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• The real debate isn't over National League MVP, but over which of Barry Bonds' seasons should be considered his finest. There's 2001, when he hit his record seventy-three home runs. There's 2002, when he hit .370 and won his first batting title. And now there's 2004, when the San Francisco Giants slugger is preparing to shatter his season record for on-base percentage, hitting for nearly as high an average as Ichiro and missing fewer pitches than ever.

  Ken Rosenthal

  Running, Real, Home

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• 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, Bats, Slumps

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• As for my batting, the best part about it is I have never changed it. I have never changed my thinking, I have never changed my batting style.

  Virender Sehwag

  Thinking, Style, Never Change

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• I rarely hit home runs in batting practice, and usually when I do feel that good, I'll have a bad game.

  Todd Helton

  Running, Home, Practice

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• I like to score and drive in runs more than pay attention to batting average.

  Alex Rodriguez

  Running, Average, Attention

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• It was no mean trick doing the wiring with those mittens on. But I managed it and crawled out, batting spiders into the shadows. I could hear a thud as they hit the floor joists, then a scuttling sound, then, worst of all, the silence of spiders.

  Bailey White

  Mean, Silence, Shadow

  Bailey White (2009). “Mama Makes Up Her Mind: And Other Dangers of Southern Living”, p.18, Da Capo Press

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• We devote our entire lives to becoming good ball players. We take batting practice until our hands bleed.

  Willie Stargell

  Sports, Player, Hands

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• Otrera stayed dead the second time," Kinzie said, batting her eyes. "We have to thank you for that. If you ever need a new girlfriend...well, I think you'd look great in an iron collar and an orange jumpsuit." Percy couldn't tell if she was kidding or not. He politely thanked her and changed seats.

  Rick Riordan

  Girlfriend, Eye, Thinking

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• I was in the show for 21 days once-the 21 greatest days of my life. You know, you never handle your luggage in the show, somebody else carries your bags. It was great. You hit white balls for batting practice, the ballparks are like cathedrals, the hotels all have room service, and the women all have long legs and brains.

  Kevin Costner

  Money, Practice, White

  "Fictional character: Crash Davis". "Bull Durham", www.imdb.com. 1988.

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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, Bats, Fields

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• I was so happy to be out of there. “Barabas, if you weren’t batting for the other team, I’d marry you.” He grinned. “If I weren’t batting for the other team, I would accept your proposal. You had me at ‘No comment.’ If all my clients were this smart, my life would be much easier. Much, much easier.

  Ilona Andrews

  Smart, Team, Would Be

  Ilona Andrews (2012). “Gunmetal Magic: A Novel in the World of Kate Daniels”, p.133, Penguin

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• He murmers into my hair, "Forget what I said earlier, let's stick with this, I might not survive anything more." I laugh. Then he jumps up, finds my wrists, and pins them over my head. "Yeah, right. Totally joking, I want to do everything with you, whenever you're ready, I'm the one, promise?" He's above me, batting and grinning like a total hooplehead. "I promise," I say. "Good. Glad that's decided." He raises an eyebrow. "I'm going to deflower you, John Lennon.

  Jandy Nelson

  Hair, Eyebrows, Laughing

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• Pitching always beats batting — and vice-versa.

  Yogi Berra

  Vices, Pitching, Beats

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• He was by no means opposed to hard labour on principle, for he would work away at a cricket-match by the day together, - running, and catching, and batting, and bowling, and revelling in toil which would exhaust a galley-slave.

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Running, Humorous

  Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith (1837). “Bentley's Miscellany”, p.54, Richard Bentley]

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• There were times last year when people looked at the scoreboard and thought my batting average was the temperature.

  Buck Martinez

  Average, Years, People

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• I was in the hockey team in school, played football. One of the challenges for me was to make the team feel better. It helped me evolve, so batting at different positions was never a problem.

  Rahul Dravid

  Football, Team, School

  "Rahul Dravid Open to Coaching Team India in Future". sports.ndtv.com. July 02, 2012.

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• To me, form is not about scoring runs but how you feel about your game. Sometimes the runs are not there, but you know you are batting well, and that is good form for me.

  Gautam Gambhir

  Running, Games, How You Feel

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