Hitting Quotes - Page 25

• The vulgar and common esteem is seldom happy in hitting right; and I am much mistaken if, amongst the writings of my time, the worst are not those which have most gained the popular applause.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Writing, Common, Popularity

  Michel de Montaigne, George Savile Marquis of Halifax (1743). “Montaigne's Essays in Three Books: With Notes and Quotations. And an Account of the Author's Life. With a Short Character of the Author and Translator”, p.216

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• I'm a really smart player. If you tell me something, I get it quickly. If there is something wrong with my hitting, tell me what's wrong and I'll pick it up right away. That's the best thing I have going for me, my ability to listen to a coach and fix what I'm doing wrong.

  Albert Pujols

  Smart, Player, Ability

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• I know I'm good when I'm hitting the ball the other way - that's Albert Pujols.

  Albert Pujols

  Way, Balls, Knows

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• In 1961 somebody could've hit a home run to win the game and the next day the headline was about the M&M boys not hitting a home run. But everyone was real good about it. Instead of getting mad they joked about it.

  Mickey Mantle

  Running, Baseball, Real

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• Nobody - but nobody - has ever become really proficient at golf without practice, without doing a lot of thinking and then hitting a lot of shots.  It isn't so much a lack of talent; it's a lack of being able to repeat good shots consistently that frustrates most players.  And the only answer to that is practice.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Golf, Player, Thinking

  Jack Nicklaus (2007). “Golf My Way”, p.204, Simon and Schuster

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• It's about hitting the ball in the center of the club face and hitting it hard.

  Bubba Watson

  Golf, Balls, Clubs

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• I love hitting aces. It's not easy, but it makes your life a lot easier.

  Serena Williams

  Aces, Easy, Easier

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• I'm trying to entice people, and sometimes my information is very hard hitting. So I've always wanted to have a soft approach.

  Buffy Sainte-Marie

  People, Trying, Information

  "The Fierce, Childlike Creativity of Buffy Sainte-Marie". Interview with Jacob Blickenstaff, www.motherjones.com. July 9, 2015.

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• The state of radio is not great. It's like playing the lottery. The chances of hitting are mind boggling slim.

  Teddy Thompson

  Mind, Radio, Slim

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• It's fun hitting on the drums and singing songs.

  Rachel Trachtenburg

  Song, Fun, Singing

  "Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players: Off and on Broadway". Music, Documentary, 2006.

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• I think that will only really change when the human races begins to suffer some of the extremely severe consequences of climate change which may be some decades ahead. They will then realise, as we have with the financial crisis, that we are up against the wall and hitting the buffers and we have got to change.

  Michael Meacher

  Wall, Thinking, Race

  "Michael Meacher MP: humans only have 200-300 years left on earth". Interview with Tom Levitt, www.theecologist.org. July 22, 2010.

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• I've had the good fortune to read a lot of great American writers in translation, and my absolute beloved, for me one of the greatest writers ever, is Mark Twain. Yes, yes, yes. And Whitman, from whom the whole of 20th-century poetry sprung up. Whitman was the origin of things, someone with a completely different outlook. But I think that he's the father of the new wave in the world's poetry which to this very day is hitting the shore.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Father, Thinking, Sprung Up

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• I would think I drive most hitting coaches crazy. During one single at-bat I used six different stances on six pitches. Oh yeah, I also struck out. So what do I know?

  John Kruk

  Baseball, Crazy, Thinking

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• People aren't for hitting.

  Barbara Mikulski

  People, Violence

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• If our eloquence be directed above the heads of our hearers, we shall do no execution. By pointing our arguments low, we stand a chance of hitting their hearts as well as their heads. In addressing angels, we could hardly raise our eloquence too high; but we must remember that men are not angels.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Heart, Angel, Men

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.147

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• It is a kind of blindness--poverty. We can only grope through life when we are poor, hitting and maiming ourselves against every angle.

  Ouida

  Poverty, Kind, Poor

  Ouida (1873). “Pascarèl: Only a Story”, p.78

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• Moral virtue is a mean . . . between two vices, one of excess and the other of defect; . . . it is such a mean because it aims at hitting the middle point in feelings and in actions. This is why it is a hard task to be good, for it is hard to find the middle point in anything.

  Aristotle

  Mean, Two, Feelings

  Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.46, Wordsworth Editions

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• Believe it or not, I sold my first novel, Crank, with only seventy-five pages complete. It was in verse then, and it was hard-hitting then.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Believe, Pages, Firsts

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• What I say goes. I'm hitting shots that I want to hit. I'm doing the things that I want to do. I play it my way.

  Bubba Watson

  Play, Want, Way

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• People attach too much importance to intangibles like heart, desire and clutch hitting.

  Nate Silver

  Heart, People, Desire

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• I always could hit, but fielding I had to work at. I took as much pride in fielding as hitting. I became a complete ballplayer. I knew when to take the extra base. I knew about the outfielder hitting the cutoff man. I knew when and how to bunt. I knew when to hit-and-run.

  George Kell

  Running, Pride, Men

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• In baseball and sex, cliches are usually true: pitching beats hitting, and people always want to be loved by anyone who doesn't seem to care.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Baseball, Sex, People

  Chuck Klosterman (2008). “Downtown Owl: A Novel”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

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• I've always been my own hitting coach.

  David Ortiz

  Coaches, My Own

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• I'm the same guy I've always been. I'm the same guy now as when I was hitting 50 home runs. I don't change.

  David Ortiz

  Running, Home, Guy

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• I have no idea what my batting average was in high school, but I know it wasn't below .450, and that's pretty good hitting where I come from.

  Joe Namath

  School, Average, Ideas

  "Playboy's Candid Conversation With The Superswinger QB, Joe Namath". thestacks.deadspin.com. September 5, 2013.

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