Batting Quotes - Page 2

• Let's face it, making movies is all risk. Most of the time, batting average-wise, the reward does not outweigh the risk.

  John Slattery

  Wise, Average, Risk

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

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• You can never have a thousand percent batting average on jokes - it's just never going to happen.

  Paul Feig

  Average, Thousand, Happens

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• My desires are simply I love to teach, I love to be in uniform, I love to throw batting practice, I love to be with the kids.

  Gary Carter

  Kids, Practice, Desire

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• I've been taking batting practice in my barn where nobody can see me, so I may be better than anyone thinks.

  Garth Brooks

  Thinking, Practice, Barns

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• Virat Kohli is an ODI batting legend

  Viv Richards

  Legends

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• I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice.

  Casey Stengel

  Baseball, Mlb, Practice

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• Mr. Jamrach led me through the lobby and into the menagerie. The first was a parrot room, a fearsome screaming place of mad round eyes, crimson breasts that beat against bars, wings that flapped against their neighbours, blood red, royal blue, gypsy yellow, grass green. The birds were crammed along perches. Macaws hung upside down here and there, batting their white eyes, and small green parrots flittered above our heads in drifts. A hot of cockatoos looked down from on high over the shrill madness, high crested, creamy breasted. The screeching was like laughter in hell.

  Carol Birch

  Laughter, Eye, Yellow

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• Once when the Yankee's Lou Pinella was batting he questioned a Palermo strike call. Pinella demanded, "Where was that pitch at?" Palermo told him that a man wearing Yankee pinstripes in front of 30,000 people should not end a sentence with a preposition. So Pinella, no dummy, said, "OK, where was that pitch at, asshole?"

  George Will

  Men, Yankees, Umpires

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• Most institutional investors feel compelled to swing at almost every pitch and forgo batting selectivity for frequency.

  Seth Klarman

  Swings, Feels, Compelled

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• On the top of the batting list we have pinned our hopes on the Dilshan-Thirima nne combination as they have been putting the runs on the board whenever they have been entrusted with the opening slot.

  Sanath Jayasuriya

  Running, Boards, Lists

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• It would be useless for any player to attempt to explain successful batting.

  Tris Speaker

  Successful, Player, Would Be

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

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• I remember one time I'm batting against the Dodgers in Milwaukee. They lead, 2 - 1, it's the bottom of the ninth, bases loaded, two out and the pitcher has a full count on me. I look over to the Dodger dugout and they're all in street clothes.

  Bob Uecker

  Two, Clothes, Looks

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• Imagine if you had baseball cards that showed all the performance stats for your people: batting averages, home runs, errors, ERAs, win/loss records. You could see what they did well and poorly and call on the right people to play the right positions in a very transparent way.

  Ray Dalio

  Running, Baseball, Home

  "Ray Dalio's Bridgewater Hedge Fund Has A Brand New iPad App" by Julia La Roche, www.businessinsider.com. June 14, 2012.

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• I had a .200 lifetime batting average in the major leagues, which tied me with another sports great averaging 200 or better for a ten-year period: Don Carter, one of our top bowlers.

  Bob Uecker

  Sports, Average, Years

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• Women can accept the fact that a man is a rotter, a swindler, a drug taker, a confirmed liar, and a general swine, without batting an eyelash, and without its impairing their affection for the brute in the least. Women are wonderful realists.

  Agatha Christie

  Liars, Men, Eyelashes

  Agatha Christie (1951). “Dame Agatha abroad”

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• I've learned that getting what you want gives you a pretty high batting average, and leaves you plenty to struggle for.

  Loretta Young

  Struggle, Average, Giving

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• Many people have their reputations as reporters and analysts because they are on television, batting around conventional wisdom. A lot of these people have never reported a story.

  Bob Woodward

  Wisdom, People, Stories

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• The greatest competitor was Bob Gibson. He worked so fast out there and he always had the hood up. He always wanted to close his own deal. He never talked to you because he was battling so hard. I sure as hell don't miss batting against him, but I miss him in the game.

  Pete Rose

  Missing You, Sports, Games

  "Distance" by Roger Angell, www.newyorker.com. September 22, 1980.

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• Campaign boot camp started as an opportunity to work in a grassroots way with people who were running for Congress. Colleagues on the Democratic National Committee were batting around different possibilities. I said, 'We should have boot camps.'

  Christine Pelosi

  Running, Opportunity, Should Have

  "Christine Pelosi's boot camp trains future politicians to avoid the campaign minefield" by Sam Whiting, www.sfgate.com. February 3, 2008.

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• We have to judge politicians by their cumulative score. In one innings they make a great catch, in another they drop the ball. In one they score a home run, in another they strike out. But it is their cumulative batting average that we are interested in.

  Jesse Jackson

  Running, Home, Average

  "Jesse Jackson: Power, politics and the preacher man". Interview with Gary Younge, www.theguardian.com. April 17, 1999.

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• I spent twenty-two seasons playing professional baseball. Naturally, success in that field is measured by batting averages, number of home runs and RBIs, fielding averages, ERAs and other statistics. Fame, notoriety and the bright lights fade quickly. To me, true success in life would be to develop both physically and spiritually to our fullest and to endure to the end!

  Harmon Killebrew

  Life, Success, Baseball

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• When the leaves turn brown, I'll be wearing the batting crown

  Dave Parker

  Crowns, Brown, Turns

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• Teams can't prepare for me in batting practice. They can't find anyone who throws as slow as I do.

  Dave LaPoint

  Team, Practice, Batting Practice

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• Commit all your crimes when Sachin is batting. They will go unnoticed because even the Lord is watching.

  Sachin Tendulkar

  Crime, Lord, Unnoticed

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• Sometimes I need to look at the scoreboard to figure out whether I'm batting hundred-plus or whether I am on zero.

  Sachin Tendulkar

  Zero, Needs, Looks

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