Hitting Quotes

• You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Funny, Relationship, Leadership

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• Hitting is an art, but not an exact science.

  Rod Carew

  Art, Exact Sciences

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

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• Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Strength, Peace, Thorough Knowledge

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.37, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• I don't try to intimidate anybody before a fight. That's nonsense. I intimidate people by hitting them.

  Mike Tyson

  Sports, Life And Love, Fighting

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

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• I don't think I can get into my deep inner thoughts about hitting. It's like talking about religion.

  Mike Schmidt

  Thinking, Talking, Religion

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• My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint.

  Erma Bombeck

  Family, Mom, Mother

  Erma Bombeck (2011). “I Lost Everything in the Post-Natal Depression”, p.96, Fawcett

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• I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn't my fault that I'm not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Change, Baseball

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• I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Unbearable

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.30, Wordsworth Editions

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• People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.

  Rogers Hornsby

  Sports, Baseball, Spring

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

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• I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it.

  Sandy Koufax

  Sports, Baseball, Athlete

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• I'll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it's sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.

  Kobe Bryant

  Inspirational, Basketball, Attitude

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• For me, the worst part of playing golf, by far, has always been hitting the ball.

  Dave Barry

  Golf, Balls, Literature

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• People have the idea of missionaries as going out with the Bible and hitting natives with it. It's not really what they were doing. They were all doing something rather different.

  Colin Firth

  Ideas, People, Different

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• I am more valuable to my team hitting .330 then swinging for home runs.

  Roberto Clemente

  Running, Team, Home

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• It's just a matter of hitting the ball where I want to hit it and hopefully making some putts.

  Bernhard Langer

  Sports, Balls, Want

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• Most of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don't fit in a very interesting way.

  Brian Eno

  Interesting, Trying, Way

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• That's what I hate about a lot of comedies, when you're hitting a line or making it funny.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Funny, Hate, Lines

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• When I was up there at the plate, my purpose was to get on base anyway I could, whether by hitting or by getting hit.

  Joe

  Purpose, Plates

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• My theory of hitting was just to watch the ball as it came in and hit it.

  Tommy Lasorda

  Sports, Watches, Balls

  Tommy Lasorda, David Fisher (1986). “The Artful Dodger”, Avon Books

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• The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love.

  Bryant Gumbel

  Softball, Sports, Baseball

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• The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Unforgivable, Crime, Avoided

  1913 Theodore Roosevelt: an Autobiography.

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• I love the feel of hitting the ball hard, the pleasure of a rally. It is these things that make tennis the delightful game that it is.

  Helen Wills

  Games, Tennis, Balls

  HELEN WILLS “TENNIS”

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• As soon as the dirt is hitting the casket, it'll all be forgotten.

  Eric Bogosian

  Dirt, Forgotten, Caskets

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• Pitching is 80% of the game and the other half is hitting and fielding.

  Mickey Rivers

  Funny, Basketball, Stupid

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• Boxing is about being hit rather more than it is about hitting, just as it is about feeling pain, if not devastating psychological paralysis, more than it is about winning.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Pain, Winning, Boxing

  Joyce Carol Oates (2009). “On Boxing”, p.25, Harper Collins

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