Batting Quotes

• How can you think and hit at the same time?

  Yogi Berra

  Sports, Baseball, Yoga

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• I have to learn from Sehwag how to play in the nervous 90's

  Sachin Tendulkar

  Play, Nervous, Cricketers

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• They throw the ball, I hit it. They hit the ball, I catch it.

  Willie Mays

  Sports, Baseball, African American

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• On a train from Shimla to Delhi, there was a halt in one of the stations. The train stopped by for few minutes as usual. Sachin was nearing century, batting on 98. The passengers, railway officials, everyone on the train waited for Sachin to complete the century. This Genius can stop time in India!

  Peter Roebuck

  Usual, India, Genius

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• I like hitting fourth and I like the good batting average. But what I do every day behind the plate is a lot more important because it touches so many more people and so many more aspects of the game.

  Thurman Munson

  Average, Games, People

  "The House That Thurman Munson Built" by Michael Paterniti, www.esquire.com. August 3, 2013.

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• If you're batting and you go off on one it can't really help you.

  Andrew Flintoff

  Helping, Ifs

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• I had to remind Gary Kristen often that he was in the covers to field against Sachin not to applaud him

  Hansie Cronje

  Sports, Competition, Fields

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• My batting average has been good, so people ask how much luck is involved. I tell them when I work 14 hours a day, 7 days a week, I get lucky.

  Armand Hammer

  Business, Average, People

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• The real debate isn't over National League MVP, but over which of Barry Bonds' seasons should be considered his finest. There's 2001, when he hit his record seventy-three home runs. There's 2002, when he hit .370 and won his first batting title. And now there's 2004, when the San Francisco Giants slugger is preparing to shatter his season record for on-base percentage, hitting for nearly as high an average as Ichiro and missing fewer pitches than ever.

  Ken Rosenthal

  Running, Real, Home

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• I rarely hit home runs in batting practice, and usually when I do feel that good, I'll have a bad game.

  Todd Helton

  Running, Home, Practice

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• I like to score and drive in runs more than pay attention to batting average.

  Alex Rodriguez

  Running, Average, Attention

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• Pitching always beats batting — and vice-versa.

  Yogi Berra

  Vices, Pitching, Beats

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

  Richie Ashburn

  Bed, Bats, Slumps

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• As for my batting, the best part about it is I have never changed it. I have never changed my thinking, I have never changed my batting style.

  Virender Sehwag

  Thinking, Style, Never Change

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• I name (Honus) Wagner first on my list, not only because he was a great batting champion and base-runner, and also baseball's foremost shortstop, but because Honus (Wagner) could have been first at any other position, with the possible exception of pitcher. In all my career, I never saw such a versatile player.

  John McGraw

  Baseball, Player, Names

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• I'm still batting away on my politics for the Labour Party. I'm much further to the left of them than I used to be, but that's because they've moved, not me.

  Billy Bragg

  Party, Used, Stills

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• I don't know about Cricket but still I watch Cricket to see Sachin play..Not because I love his play, its because I want to know the reason why my country's production goes down by 5 percent when he is in batting

  Barack Obama

  Country, Play, Watches

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

  Michael Hussey

  Hard Work, Bats, Three

  "Sachin Tendulkar's 'three metre wide bat' makes Test cricket tough: Michael Hussey". www.dnaindia.com. October 19, 2010.

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• I was nervous batting eighth, and I was nervous batting seventh.

  Dontrelle Willis

  Sports, Nervous

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• 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.

  Mushfiqur Rahim

  School, Boys, Bats

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• If you are anything like me you'll have to fight tooth-and-nail to stay in the game (evangelism). Because although the home runs have been invigorating, my batting average over the years is abysmally low.

  Bill Hybels

  Running, Home, Fighting

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• How different South Africa’s cricketing achievements, and indeed the future of the country itself, might have been if racism had not denied Frank Roro the opportunity of batting with Bruce Mitchell in the Lord’s sunshine.

  Richard Lloyd

  Country, Sunshine, Opportunity

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• Statistics are the lifeblood of baseball. In no other sport are so many available and studied so assiduously by participants and fans. Much of the game's appeal, as a conversation piece, lies in the opportunity the fan gets to back up opinions and arguments with convincing figures, and it is entirely possible that more American boys have mastered long division by dealing with batting averages than in any other way.

  Leonard Koppett

  Sports, Baseball, Lying

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• I feel that I'm in on the ground floor of something that human beings will be concentrating on for the next 1,000 years-if we don't destroy ourselves in the meantime. It's possible that 50 years from now we're going to end up out of this solar system, batting around the universe, at least within our galaxy, investigating other stars and other systems.

  Deke Slayton

  Stars, Future, Years

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• You throw batting practice, you warm up pitchers, you sit and cheer. You do whatever you have to do to stay on the team.

  Bob Uecker

  Cheer, Team, Practice

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