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No man with a conscience can just bat out illustrations. He's got to put all his talent and feeling into them!
Batsmen like Gary Kirsten, Boeta Dippenaar and Neil McKenzie have good techniques and can bat for long periods.
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.
Twinkle, twinkle little bat How I wonder what you're at! Up above the world you fly, Like a tea-tray in the sky.
When I see people like Pietersen bat, I wish that I'd freed up a bit as a batsman, but it's very easy to say now.
If you aim for parody right off the bat and it misses, no offense to the filmmakers, but it is Meet the Spartans.
The bat is not a toy, it's a weapon. It gives me everything in life, which helps me to do everything on the field.
Your bat is your life. It's your weapon. You don't want to go into battle with anything that feels less than perfect.
I could always hit. I learned to hit with a broomstick and a ball of tape and I could always get that bat on the ball.
The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball.
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 always said I don't mind where I bat and I have exactly the same mindset when I'm batting seven as I would at five.
There is no 'Bat Out of Hell III.' That should have never happened. To me, that record is nonexistent. It doesn't exist.
All careers go up and down like friendships, like marriages, like anything else, and you can't bat a thousand all the time.
Of course I like to watch myself bat. After every innings, match, series, I do watch my own videos whenever I get the time.
I won't be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat.
The town I grew up in was at least fifty percent Jewish, so every weekend in the 7th grade, we went to Bar and Bat Mitzvahs.
I learned to bat and bowl on different pitches and knew when to go hard and when to back off. It was just something I learned.
Are you tall? Are you strong? How big are your hands? You must be honest with yourself or you will end up using the wrong bat.
Whenever I go out to bat, my only responsibility is to look at the scoreboard and think what India needs from me at this moment.
The crack of the bat, the sound of baseballs thumping into gloves, the infield chatter are like birdsong to the baseball starved.
I just try to make contact with the ball. It's obvious that I like to swing the bat. I'm not thinking of taking a lot of pitches.
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.
I didn't wear a helmet because I wanted to show that the bowler wasn't intimidating me, and also that's just the way I liked to bat.
I am very happy. And also, I want to come out to bat in this kind of tough situation when everybody in the dressing room is nervous.
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.
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.
I never want to lose. I hate to lose... But Babe Ruth struck out 1,300 times. You can't hit the home run every time you come up to bat.
What the hell kind of man decides to dress up as a bat and run around the city? There's got to be something a little bit loose in there.
I say all the time that when you first meet me, you know three things right off the bat: I'm Nigerian, I love to laugh, and I love Jesus.
You can't see the bat hit the ball if you're generating any bat speed. If you're just laying the bat through the strike zone, sure, maybe.
When I wasn't working on Broadway, I worked in a Bat Mitzvah dress shop and was the Cinderella of the shop - always cleaning and vacuuming!
As a kid, I liked making up stories, and I wrote a story about a kangaroo and a bat with Christy Chang, and she went on to become a surgeon.
I grew up in the '60s, which was a creative time, so it wasn't that big of a stretch to go from a baseball bat to a guitar to a film camera.
How do you combat a man with a firearm? You don't combat him with a golf club, baseball bat or a knife. You combat him with another firearm.
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.
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.
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.
The NFL is part of the pop culture landscape, so sports fans don't bat an eye when you stop in the middle of a piece to talk about a new movie.
Sometimes you fail with the bat, and then you have to do well with the ball. When you fail with the ball, you have to do well with your willow.
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.
Maybe because I bat aggressively and go for big hits at times, people tend to remember my batting. But I have always done well as a stumper, too.
But put it this way: if I have a bad day keeping, I know I can put it right with the bat, and vice versa. When it all comes together, happy days.
A lot of folks would say that if I had been a little more selfish with my bat, I would have had a much bigger average. But that doesn't worry me.
The first time I picked up a bat in a professional game, I hit a ball hard left-handed, and my first home run was so effortless, it surprised me.
Ever since I was a little girl, I loved to make things. I always made dresses for my Barbie dolls. When I was 13, I designed my Bat Mitzvah dress.
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.
My brother was a left-hander. When I was young, my father would say take your brother's gloves and pads and play, so I picked up the bat left-handed.
It's a pretty sure thing that the player's bat is what speaks loudest when it's contract time, but there are moments when the glove has the last word.
It has been a great honour to play for the West Indies, to hold a bat and to spend 17 years in international cricket. That is something I am proud of.