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

A Bat meeting any one running away, signifies an evasion: for although she have no wings, yet she flies.

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

All coaches religiously carry fungo bats in the spring to ward off suggestions that they are not working.

Yes, Severus does seem the type, doesn't he? So useful to have him swooping around like an overgrown bat.

I always listen to music before I go out to bat. Any track, really, just whatever I feel like at the time.

I had no issues with lesbians, but I didn't swing the bat that way, and I kind of resented getting molested.

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

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

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

I'd like to see him go out and bat one day with a stump. I tell you that's what he's been doing all this while

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

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.

Bat, pigeon, ravens - I don't care about distinctions right now. Any fluttery, flappy thing is not cool with me.

Two bats were hanging up in a cave and one said to the other, 'When I'm older, I hope I don't become incontinent'.

My bats were brilliant. The shape of them changed, and towards the end of my career, they got a little bit bigger.

Your bat is your life. It's your weapon. You don't want to go into battle with anything that feels less than perfect

You obviously want the results but you must do your job in every at-bat and deal with what every situation dictates.

Bats have no bankers and they do not drink and cannot be arrested and pay no tax and, in general, bats have it made.

In many countries, wind turbines pose the single greatest threat to bats after habitat loss and white-nose syndrome.

Isn't it odd? A guy bats .301 and has 35 homers. Then everybody starts to tell him what a good fielder he has become.

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

Yes, I did bite the head off of a dove. Yes, I did bite the head off of a bat. It's a stupid thing to do, but I did it.

When you go to bat as many times as I do, you're bound to get a good average. That's why I keep my projects diversified.

Omygod, I haven’t got years. I’ll have to hide in the Bat Cave.” “Once you go to the Bat Cave it’s forever, babe.” Eeek.

I love watching Virat Kohli bat. I love his aggression and serious passion that I used to have. He reminds me of myself.

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

Don’t change the channel when Rohit Sharma walks out to bat, because by the time you change it back, he‘d be long gone!!

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

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.

By the time I wrote 'Any Given Sunday' or 'Bats,' I sort of knew what my job was in terms of what a writer of dialogue does.

I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.

Obviously, success breeds more confidence. And it's pretty easy to be confident if you're getting a hit almost every time at bat.

I am really quite fascinated by echo-locating bats and dolphins and have always wondered how sound affects the unconscious brain.

Every at-bat, I try to hit the ball. I don't like to strike out. I put the ball in play a lot, so I'll take the hits as they come.

I did realise that when you talk with a straight face, you come across as someone bolder than somebody who bats her eyelids a lot.

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.

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.

I like to be a bowler because I can't bat properly. After 17 years of cricket I have got the opportunities and made the wickets fall.

I never cared who scored the goal, or which side won the silver cup. I never learned to bat or bowl; but I heard the curtain going up.

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.

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 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?'

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'.

I'm still very critical of myself, but I've learned to deal with it. You know that every at-bat is important, but it's not life and death.

I got to thinking that poems were like people. Some people you got right off the bat. Some people you just didn't get--and never would get.

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!

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.

Bowl better, Bat better, Catch better, communicate better... Just bloody play better.... I am now available for Selection of Australia..!!!!!

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.

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