Hitting Quotes - Page 4

• I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Unbearable

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.30, Wordsworth Editions

  34 Copy quote

  Show source

• Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

  George S. Patton

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

  52 Copy quote

• I stare out the window and wait for spring.

  Rogers Hornsby

  Baseball, Inspirational Sports, Spring

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  68 Copy quote

  Show source

• You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you, too.

  Roy Campanella

  Baseball, Boys, Men

  Quoted in New York Journal-American, 12 Apr. 1957

  29 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you hit a wrong note, then make it right by what you play afterward.

  Joe Pass

  Inspirational, Music, Guitar

  68 Copy quote

• People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.

  Rogers Hornsby

  Sports, Baseball, Spring

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  83 Copy quote

  Show source

• I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it.

  Sandy Koufax

  Sports, Baseball, Athlete

  108 Copy quote

• I'll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it's sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.

  Kobe Bryant

  Inspirational, Basketball, Attitude

  109 Copy quote

• So I'm ugly. So what? I never saw anyone hit with his face.

  Yogi Berra

  Beauty, Baseball, Yankees

  Quoted in Paul Dickson, Baseball's Greatest Quotations (1991)

  57 Copy quote

  Show source

• Every hitter likes fastballs, just like everybody likes ice cream. But you don't like it when someone's stuffing it into you by the gallon. That's what it feels like when Nolan Ryan's thrown balls by you.

  Reggie Jackson

  Baseball, Ice Cream, Mlb

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• The pitcher has to find out if the hitter is timid. And if the hitter is timid, he has to remind the hitter he's timid.

  Don Drysdale

  Baseball, Mlb, Pitching

  12 Copy quote

• The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Unforgivable, Crime, Avoided

  1913 Theodore Roosevelt: an Autobiography.

  78 Copy quote

  Show source

• The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love.

  Bryant Gumbel

  Softball, Sports, Baseball

  50 Copy quote

• My theory of hitting was just to watch the ball as it came in and hit it.

  Tommy Lasorda

  Sports, Watches, Balls

  Tommy Lasorda, David Fisher (1986). “The Artful Dodger”, Avon Books

  26 Copy quote

  Show source

• I love the feel of hitting the ball hard, the pleasure of a rally. It is these things that make tennis the delightful game that it is.

  Helen Wills

  Games, Tennis, Balls

  HELEN WILLS “TENNIS”

  47 Copy quote

  Show source

• Boxing is about being hit rather more than it is about hitting, just as it is about feeling pain, if not devastating psychological paralysis, more than it is about winning.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Pain, Winning, Boxing

  Joyce Carol Oates (2009). “On Boxing”, p.25, Harper Collins

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• As soon as the dirt is hitting the casket, it'll all be forgotten.

  Eric Bogosian

  Dirt, Forgotten, Caskets

  45 Copy quote

• Pitching is 80% of the game and the other half is hitting and fielding.

  Mickey Rivers

  Funny, Basketball, Stupid

  11 Copy quote

• That's what I hate about a lot of comedies, when you're hitting a line or making it funny.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Funny, Hate, Lines

  7 Copy quote

• I am more valuable to my team hitting .330 then swinging for home runs.

  Roberto Clemente

  Running, Team, Home

  15 Copy quote

• For me, the worst part of playing golf, by far, has always been hitting the ball.

  Dave Barry

  Golf, Balls, Literature

  11 Copy quote

• It's just a matter of hitting the ball where I want to hit it and hopefully making some putts.

  Bernhard Langer

  Sports, Balls, Want

  7 Copy quote

• People have the idea of missionaries as going out with the Bible and hitting natives with it. It's not really what they were doing. They were all doing something rather different.

  Colin Firth

  Ideas, People, Different

  7 Copy quote

• When I was up there at the plate, my purpose was to get on base anyway I could, whether by hitting or by getting hit.

  Joe

  Purpose, Plates

  7 Copy quote

• Most of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don't fit in a very interesting way.

  Brian Eno

  Interesting, Trying, Way

  7 Copy quote