Bats Quotes

I was never coached; I was never told how to hold a bat.

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

I will leave this shining life of cricket very soon. This bat and ball won't save Shahid Afridi in Grave

A famous bon mot asserts that opinions are like arse-holes, in that everyone has one. There is great wisdom in this... but I would add that opinions differ significantly from arse-holes, in that yours should be constantly and thoroughly examined.We must think critically, and not just about the ideas of others. Be hard on your beliefs. Take them out onto the verandah and beat them with a cricket bat.... Be intellectually rigorous. Identify your biases, your prejudices, your privilege.

Today if I'm a cricketer it is because of Sachin Tendulkar. Else, I would never have picked up a bat. He's the reason behind me playing cricket

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.

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

I like to think of the world's greatest athlete coming up to bat against me - Tiger Woods, Wayne Gretzky, I don't care who it is - and I'm looking at him thinking, you have no chance.

I don't make speeches. I just let my bat speak for me in the summertime.

If you want to learn batting, bat with MS Dhoni.

I have an Alka-Seltzer bat. You know-plop, plop, fizz, fizz, when the pitcher sees me walking up there he says, 'Oh, what a relief it is'.

Test cricket is bloody hard work, especially when you've got Sachin batting with what looks like a three metre wide bat.

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

A ball bat is a wondrous weapon.

To cure a batting slump, I took my bat to bed with me. I wanted to know my bat a little better.

You surprise yourself on some balls off the bat. You don't think you have a chance to catch it. And then your natural ability just takes over.

The hardest thing to do in baseball is to hit a round baseball with a round bat, squarely.

I hated to bat against Drysdale. After he hit you he'd come around, look at the bruise on your arm and say, 'Do you want me to sign it?'

We ought to take good care of everybody we have on the planet, but we ought to regulate the rate at which people join us. The old saying is, "It's the top of the ninth inning, and humanity has been hitting nature hard, but you've always got to remember that nature bats last."

What is it like to be a bat? What is it like for a bat to be a bat?

A gun is no more dangerous than a cricket bat in the hands of a madman.

There are some people who might look better if you smacked them in the head with a baseball bat.

I don't know how I'm gonna pick up a bat again. I just need to be away for a bit and play with my dogs.

Hand me down the shark repellent Bat-Spray!

I'll pay to watch MS Dhoni Bat. Dhoni is not the next Gilchrist. He's the first MS Dhoni.

No perfume. Because I want to know how you smell - right off the bat. Don't mask it up. I need to know how you smell because I need to know how we connect. A smell is a big thing. Pheromones. Don't cover that.

A full mind is an empty bat.

My party is going bat (EXPLETIVE DELETED) crazy.

Perhaps not," said Will, who had ears like a bat's. "But I would make a radiant bride.

Yeah, size is no guarantee of power,” said George. “Look at Ginny.” “What d’you mean?” said Harry. “You’ve never been on the receiving end of one of her Bat-Bogey Hexes, have you?

I had immediate success in the sense that I sold something right off the bat. I thought it was going to be a piece of cake and it really wasn't. I have drawers full of - or I did have - drawers full of rejection slips.

Just because you're down to your last strike, you're not out yet. You can always do more. You'll always have more at-bats to take. That's true in baseball, in rescuing animals, and in life generally.

I now know what Sachin Tendulkar feels every time he bats in India.

I am the batsman and the bat, / I am the bowler and the ball, / The umpire, the pavilion cat, / The roller, pitch, and stumps, and all.

I have no expectation of making a hit every time I come to bat.

I would order a dozen bats and there were times they'd come back with handles at each end.

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

The longer I live, the longer I realize that batting is more a mental matter than it is physical. The ability to grasp the bat, swing at the proper time, take a proper stance; all these are elemental. Batting is rather a study in psychology, a sizing up of a pitcher and catcher and observing little details that are of immense importance. It's like the study of crime, the work of a detective as he picks up clues.

Part of [having uncommon sense] is being able to tune out folly, as opposed to recognizing wisdom. If you bat away many things, you don't clutter yourself.

I use my single windup, my double windup, my triple windup, my hesitation windup, my no windup. I also use my step-n-pitch-it, my submariner, my sidearmer and my bat dodger. Man's got to do what he's got to do.

You take all the offensive linemen and put them in a burlap bag, and then you take a baseball bat and beat on the bag. You’re sacking them. You’re bagging them. And that’s what you’re doing with a quarterback.

Them bats is smart. They use radar!

When I'm at bat, I'm in scoring position.

I had been playing for a while, and I asked Louisville Slugger to send me a dozen flame treated bats. But when I got it, I realized they had sent me a box of ashes.

The best compliment for me is when someone says they'll pay to watch me play, And I can say that I'll pay to watch MS Dhoni bat. MS is not the next Gilchrist. He's the first MS Dhoni

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

Hitting at the top of the order is a good thing. You get more at-bats. I'm excited to see how this develops.

I think I play center field better than I do anywhere else. I have enough speed and enough reaction to know where the ball goes off the bat.

At one point, the old school club retires and you're next up to bat, but if you stop before your time, you will see someone else live your dream.