Bats Quotes - Page 5

Mass-market movies have become about one thing. They kind of declare themselves right off the bat. . . . But when I go to see (a film), I want to be surprised. I want to see something I never expected. And when you get that, it should be celebrated.

I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.

There is no one correct way to bat, and so of course there is no one correct stance for it.

I feel good. At this point, the only thing I'm trying to do is accumulate at-bats and get my work in, and so far that's what I'm doing.

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.

When I get the record, all it will make me is the player with the most hits. I'm also the player with the most at bats and the most outs. I never said I was a greater player than (Ty) Cobb.

The first question that comes out of everybody's mouth, 'Did you bite the head off a bat?' And I did, so, next.

I owe my success to expansion pitching, a short right field fence, and my hollow bats.

The Indian bowlers picked me for sledging when I was batting well. They called me school boy. But I was enjoying it and I had answered it with my bat.

This whole thing about not kicking someone when they are down is b.s. Not only do you kick him—you kick him until he passes out—then beat him over the head with a baseball bat—then roll him up in an old rug—and throw him off a cliff into the pounding surf below!!!!!

Failure makes excuses. Success just keeps swinging the bat.

When you're in Los Angeles, nobody bats an eye, they're so used to seeing actors, they just act really cool.

I didn’t realize that one tragedy can beget another, and another — bright-eyed disasters flooding out of a death hole like bats out of a cave.

Ah wonder if anybody this side of the Atlantic has ever bought a baseball bat with playing baseball in mind.

Jacques Rudolph at the moment is using the inside edge as much as the middle of the bat.

The car suddenly veered off the road and we came to a sliding halt in the gravel. I was hurled against the dashboard. My attorney was slumped over the wheel. “What’s wrong?” I yelled. “We can’t stop here. This is bat country!

I like being close to the bats.

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.

It took us a little while, but we swung the bats well tonight.

I've always said when I broke in I was an average player. I had an average arm, average speed and definitely an average bat. I am still average in all of those.

For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.

For me, fielding is everything - it is a passion that comes from within. You can get a bad ball while you bat, and your bowling may not always be up there, but you are completely in control of how well you field.

I will stand on, and continue to use, the figures I have used, because I believe they are correct. Now, I'm not going to deny that you don't now and then slip up on something; no one bats a thousand.

When you are about to die, a wombat is better than no company at all.

When you first assemble a group, it's not a team right off the bat. It's only a collection of individuals