Batting Quotes - Page 5

• If Trescothick had tried to get me off the field when batting well, I'd have hit him with my bat.

  Geoffrey Boycott

  Athlete, Bats, Fields

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• I was so happy to be out of there. “Barabas, if you weren’t batting for the other team, I’d marry you.” He grinned. “If I weren’t batting for the other team, I would accept your proposal. You had me at ‘No comment.’ If all my clients were this smart, my life would be much easier. Much, much easier.

  Ilona Andrews

  Smart, Team, Would Be

  Ilona Andrews (2012). “Gunmetal Magic: A Novel in the World of Kate Daniels”, p.133, Penguin

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• Otrera stayed dead the second time," Kinzie said, batting her eyes. "We have to thank you for that. If you ever need a new girlfriend...well, I think you'd look great in an iron collar and an orange jumpsuit." Percy couldn't tell if she was kidding or not. He politely thanked her and changed seats.

  Rick Riordan

  Girlfriend, Eye, Thinking

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• It was no mean trick doing the wiring with those mittens on. But I managed it and crawled out, batting spiders into the shadows. I could hear a thud as they hit the floor joists, then a scuttling sound, then, worst of all, the silence of spiders.

  Bailey White

  Mean, Silence, Shadow

  Bailey White (2009). “Mama Makes Up Her Mind: And Other Dangers of Southern Living”, p.18, Da Capo Press

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• We devote our entire lives to becoming good ball players. We take batting practice until our hands bleed.

  Willie Stargell

  Sports, Player, Hands

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• To me, form is not about scoring runs but how you feel about your game. Sometimes the runs are not there, but you know you are batting well, and that is good form for me.

  Gautam Gambhir

  Running, Games, How You Feel

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• There were times last year when people looked at the scoreboard and thought my batting average was the temperature.

  Buck Martinez

  Average, Years, People

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• I was in the hockey team in school, played football. One of the challenges for me was to make the team feel better. It helped me evolve, so batting at different positions was never a problem.

  Rahul Dravid

  Football, Team, School

  "Rahul Dravid Open to Coaching Team India in Future". sports.ndtv.com. July 02, 2012.

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• He was by no means opposed to hard labour on principle, for he would work away at a cricket-match by the day together, - running, and catching, and batting, and bowling, and revelling in toil which would exhaust a galley-slave.

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Running, Humorous

  Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith (1837). “Bentley's Miscellany”, p.54, Richard Bentley]

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