Bat Quotes

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

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

When I came up to bat with three men on and two outs in the ninth, I looked in the other team's dugout and they were already in street clothes.

I don't bat an eye at stuff like that. I've had my share of wins. If I worried about the games I should have won, it would probably drive me crazy. It was a fun game to pitch in.

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.

It was funny, when I thought of it afterward, how Ruth and Gehrig looked as they stood there. The Babe must have been waiting for me to get the ball up a little so he could get his bat under it.

One of the most fundamental questions people have about defense attorneys is, 'How can you do that? How can you go to bat everyday for a person that you may not know is guilty but you have a pretty good idea that he's not so innocent?' It's a question that defense attorneys answer for themselves by not addressing.

I had great control, I never missed hitting the other's fellow bat.

I'm not afraid to swing the bat. If they elect to pitch to me, I'm going to swing. I'm not as picky as Mr. Sheffield. I'll swing at something over my head.

When you're mad at someone, it's probably best not to break his arm with a baseball bat.

The harder you grip the bat, the more you can swing it through the ball, and the farther the ball will go.

You fool around with different pitches playing catch, but it's not the same when you've got to face some guy with a bat in his hand.

Let the pitcher move first, then, as he draws his arm back, you draw the bat back and you are ready.

Twinkle, twinkle little bat How I wonder what you're at! Up above the world you fly, Like a tea-tray in the sky.

The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting.

You can't blame someone for not knowing what his or her job should be if you don't ask for it right off the bat.

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.