Bat Quotes

They give you a round bat and they throw you a round ball and they tell you to hit it square.

The Olympics are great for notoriety right off the bat, but your body of work is what people remember you for.

Hitting a baseball well, as in cricket, is a very rare skill. One of most difficult things to do in the world to do, hitting a ball coming at you at ninety miles an hour with a round bat. Wonderful to watch.

I touched Roger's bat and held it to my heart. My bat will lie next to his. I'm damn proud of that.

I've got a right to knock down anybody holding a bat.

People always ask me how I can hit the ball so far, and I say, 'I just swing.' It's the coaches who first told me I had good bat speed. I was just swinging, and I guess it was fast. I'm pretty fast at everything.

Clearly you need a new team to go out to bat on your behalf; to fight for your rights and to report back to you personally and to the leadership of the IFP.

I keep a lucky red rag in my pocket when I bat, which has been a good luck charm for a few years.

No man with a conscience can just bat out illustrations. He's got to put all his talent and feeling into them!

I was much entertained last summer with a tame bat, which would take flies out of a person's hand.

A full mind is an empty bat.

The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball.

And I have a few friends that I think would go to bat for me no matter what. Flea is definitely one of them. Guy Oseary is one of them.

There cannot be found in the animal kingdom a bat, or any other creature, so blind in its own range of circumstance and connection, as the greater majority of human beings are in the bosoms of their families.

No one hit home runs the way Babe did. They were something special. They were like homing pigeons. The ball would leave the bat, pause briefly, suddenly gain its bearings, then take off for the stands.

You gotta keep the ball off the fat part of the bat.

If Trescothick had tried to get me off the field when batting well, I'd have hit him with my bat.

We are starting off with our own different characters and our own laws and everything, looking at Bruce Wayne and how he came to be the person that he was and how he comes to be this man that jumps around in the Bat suit.

All careers go up and down like friendships, like marriages, like anything else, and you can't bat a thousand all the time.

I had a bat mitzvah, was confirmed, went to Jewish summer camp, I go to temple for the High Holy Days. I think, like most people in their early 20s, I kind of strayed away from it. I think once I have a family I'll be back into it.

The phrase 'off with the crack of the bat', while romantic, is really meaningless, since the outfielder should be in motion long before he hears the sound of the ball meeting the bat.

The American boy starts swinging the bat about as soon as he can lift one.

If a pitcher sees you fiddling with the bat, he'll stall until your arms are tired before you even get a chance to hit.

I've never fallen in love right off the bat. I get scared to say I love you too soon because it means so much. It means you're not seeing an end to things.

I loved Veronica right off the bat. She was so strong and I think it is so important because there are so few shows that portray women, especially young women, as being strong and being able to stand up for themselves.

And, you know, you try and preach to them there's more to this game than just walking up to home plate, swinging the bat, fielding a ground ball. There's some dedication in it, some love you've got to put into this work.

I don't like to sound egotistical, but every time I stepped up to the plate with a bat in my hands, I couldn't help but feel sorry for the pitcher.

One night I went over to get some dope from some Hollywood tough guy. After I left, my son Scott, who was only fifteen, went over with a baseball bat to kill him. I was laughing out of one eye and crying out of the other. I thought, Who am I kidding?

There are certain things I can't do, certain pitches I can't hit. You stay away from them. You try to wait for pitches you can hit. The bat speed isn't what it used to be. You make up for it by using your head, working counts, getting ahead in counts and getting pitches to hit and hitting them hard.

I got rabies shots for biting the head off a bat but that's OK - the bat had to get Ozzy shots.