Hitting Quotes - Page 18

• Baseball's rich in wonderful statistics, but it's hard to find one more beautiful than Stan Musial's hitting record. He didn't care where he was, he just hit.

  George Will

  Beautiful, Baseball, Records

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• The Love Dare for Parents really came from an ongoing response from people who went through the couple's book asking us to do the same for children. It's been a long time coming after a couple years doing this. But we're excited that it's now hitting shelves. We learned a lot going through the process of writing it, so we can't wait to see what happens.

  Alex Kendrick

  Children, Couple, Book

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• Managing is not running, hitting, or stealing. Managing is getting your players to put out one hundred percent year after year.

  Sparky Anderson

  Running, Player, Years

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• I'm very mechanical, so if I have one thing that's going in the wrong direction when I'm hitting, it's hard for me to get a hit.

  David Ortiz

  Wrong Direction, One Thing, Hard

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• I don't think I'm one of those guys who won't pick up a racket for three years...I love hitting tennis balls.

  Andy Roddick

  Thinking, Years, Tennis

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• I feel good hitting in the three-hole. I guess that's where everybody wants to be. You want the responsibility of hitting in the middle of the lineup.

  Carlos Gonzalez

  Responsibility, Feel Good, Three

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• But high up on the mountain When the wind is hitting it If you're watching very closely The rock slips a little bit.

  Harry Chapin

  Rocks, Wind, Mountain

  Song: The Rock, Album: Portrait Gallery, 1975

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• So my biggest fun has been watching my daughters grow up. Now, unfortunately they're hitting the age where they still love me, but they think I'm completely boring. And so they'll come in, pat me on the head, talk to me for 10 minutes, and then they're gone all weekend. Right? They break my heart! So now I've got to start thinking, Well what's going to replace that fun?

  Barack Obama

  Daughter, Growing Up, Fun

  Source: www.slate.com

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• Think about the strangeness of today's situation. Thirty, forty years ago, we were still debating about what the future will be: communist, fascist, capitalist, whatever. Today, nobody even debates these issues. We all silently accept global capitalism is here to stay. On the other hand, we are obsessed with cosmic catastrophes: the whole life on earth disintegrating, because of some virus, because of an asteroid hitting the earth, and so on. So the paradox is, that it's much easier to imagine the end of all life on earth than a much more modest radical change in capitalism.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Thinking, Hands, Years

  "Mapping Ideology" by Slavoj Žižek, p.1, 1994.

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• The Chancellor of the Exchequer has delivered his Budget. It is his first Budget, but we have seen it all before. This is a Tory Budget that will throw people out of work, will hold back economic growth, and will harm vital public services. Yes, it is the Chancellor's first Budget, but it is the same old Tories, hitting hardest at those who can least afford it and breaking their promises. This is true to form for the Tories, but it includes things that the Liberal Democrats have always fought against. Surely they cannot vote for this.

  Harriet Harman

  Promise, Firsts, Vote

  House of Commons Debates, publications.parliament.uk. June 22, 2010.

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• There is nothing wrong with [pitching by committee] in mid-week [games]. It creates unique problems for hitters. I think it creates more problems for good-hitting teams than it does for the other teams.

  Wayne Graham

  Team, Unique, Thinking

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• The one place where I can relax is on the golf course with my teammates and buddies, assuming I'm hitting the golf ball well. If I'm not, well, that is another story.

  Carson Palmer

  Golf, Relax, Balls

  Interview with Victor Kelly, www.ign.com. July 27, 2005.

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• Yesterday, my son was out in the yard playing with his friend, and he hit his friend. I walked up to him, and I said, "Hey... We don't hit". He looked at me like, "Here's your sign, Dad".

  Bill Engvall

  Dad, Son, Yesterday

  "Cheap Drunk: An Autobiography". Book by Bill Engvall, 2002.

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• Some batters, and good ones too, scoff at the whole theory of place hitting, calling it a myth. They are wrong, however.

  Edd Roush

  Calling, Theory, Myth

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• Place hitting is, in a sense, glorified bunting. I only take a half swing at the ball, and the weight of the bat rather than my swing is what drives it.

  Edd Roush

  Swings, Bunting, Bats

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• Know what the difference between hitting .250 and .300 is? It's 25 hits - 25 hits in 500 at-bats is 50 points. There's six months in a season, that's about 25 weeks. That means if you get just one extra flare a week - just one - you get a ground ball with eyes, you get a dying quail, just one more dying quail a week ... and you're in Yankee Stadium.

  Crash Davis

  Mean, Eye, Differences

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• It's malarkey. When you tell people that the roof crushing in on your head is not the cause of injury, it's your head hitting the roof, it's laughable.

  Joan Claybrook

  Crush, People, Causes

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• Anybody who can't hear the difference between a ball hitting wood and a ball hitting concrete must be blind.

  Yogi Berra

  Yankees, Differences, Balls

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• Hitting in a game is no different than hitting in a home run contest. It pisses me off to say Barry Bonds is the greatest hitter. He's playing in a wussy era. The game is soft. You never get thrown at today. Last thing a hitter has to worry about today is getting hit. The first thing Hank Aaron had to worry about is: Am I going to survive this at-bat because I'm black.

  Goose Gossage

  Running, Home, Yankees

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• I don't think there's any way you can worry about how many errors or how many bad plays you've made. You can get into a fielding funk just as quick as you can hitting.

  Marcus Giles

  Thinking, Errors, Play

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• You just get better with age. You learn yourself and the league. I'm starting to understand more about hitting every year.

  Derrek Lee

  Years, League, Get Better

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• As a first baseman, hitting home runs is what's expected of me. But I don't really try to hit home runs.

  Derrek Lee

  Running, Home, Trying

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• This has been a great experience for me. The first couple of days you don't always feel too well. You adjust to the fluid shifting, how to fly through space without hitting things or anybody else. But then you get in a groove.

  Laurel Clark

  Couple, Space, Shifting

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• We can't score goals, we can't stop goals, we aren't hitting, we can't play on special teams... we all stink. We can try to improve but to do so we will need to make trades. And who would want our players that are underachieving?

  Ted Leonsis

  Team, Hockey, Player

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• Switch-hitting is one of the greatest things in the world and one of the worst things in the world.

  Mark Teixeira

  World, Worst, Worst Things

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