Hit Quotes

I hit big or I miss big.

If your audience is young, it'd be youth culture, if your audience is older, it'd be older people, if it were senior citizens, it'd be senior citizen issues. So you try and hit the target audience.

I got that nickname my first spring training camp with the Expos in 1974. Tim Foli, Ken Singleton and Mike Jorgensen started calling me 'Kid' because I was trying to win every sprint. I was trying to hit every pitch out of the park.

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.

If a movie isn't a hit right out of the gate, they drop it. Which means that the whole mainstream Hollywood product has been skewed toward violence and vulgar teen comedy.

The early part of my career I really struggled, getting turned down again and again. I was in debt, and it was horrible. And then my family hit such highs in their careers, I asked myself what I was thinking going into the same profession.

The hardest hit, as everywhere, are those who have no choice.

I'm glad that my parents missed one thing that was really unbelievable. They saw me hit this great success. It was a blast and we had a lot of laughs. And it was just an amazing time. They passed away. And then after I got, you know, famous, all these haters came out of nowhere.

When I got involved with The Five Crowns who later became The Drifters, and we got this hit record, I still was looking at this as kind of a fun thing.

In 2011, agricultural exports hit a record high and producers saw their best incomes in nearly 40 years.

After I'd hit a home run and took my position in the field, the fans in the bleachers began throwing packages of tobacco at me. I stuffed them in my pocket.

To be a good hitter you've got to do one thing - get a good ball to hit.

So much of life is luck. One day you make a right turn and get hit by a car. Turn left and you meet the love of your life. I think I made the correct turn.

Nine out of 10 times these guys will hit it-they'll be on something incredibly funny, but one out of 10, two out of 10, they'll fall flat on their faces. That's what makes them great actors: they take those chances, they don't play it safe.

When I'm not hitting, I don't hit nobody. But, when I'm hitting, I hit anybody.

I think I don't sing as hard as I used to sing. I used to kind of hit the accelerator a lot back in my youth, but now it's just being able to control it, and not work it so hard and use more of an emotional or sub textual kind of approach to singing.

I'm always improving and I want to get better and never hit a plateau. I find it an amazing adventure.

Los Angeles, Houston, Denver, Atlanta: those are all cities that really didn't get big, didn't hit their stride until the 20th century.

To hit bottom is to fall from grace.

The more you hesitate in a game, the more your chance of getting hit. Your focus isn't there. When you hesitate, usually you're in trouble.

A gentleman is any man who wouldn't hit a woman with his hat on.

If the javelin had hit me 10cm to the left, it would have punctured my lung, 20cm higher the throat, which would have been the worst-case scenario. Just 1cm higher and it would have hit bone, muscle and tendon and that would have been the end of my sporting career.

Getting hit motivates me. It makes me punish the guy more. A fighter takes a punch, hits back with three punches.

Somebody once asked me if I ever went up to the plate trying to hit a home run. I said, 'Sure, every time.'

The double hundred Fowler hit in the Madras Test was an absolute beauty.

Working with Julie Andrews is like getting hit over the head with a valentine.

I don't like the rules about you can't hit the quarterback.

The difference between a beautifully made failure and a beautifully made hit is who you've got playing the leads.

I feel as though my career really hit its high point when I was cast as a supporting actress in 'American Wedding'. I thought the script had a lot of depth and intelligence, and it really just jumped off the page.

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