Top 100 Batter'd Quotes

#1. I still enjoy watching a batter successfully cross home plate, but nothing thrills me more than seeing the Holy Spirit at work in hearts as the Gospel is carried into stadiums, across the airwaves, and around the world.

Billy Graham

Batter'd Quotes #20295
#2. All that analysis is well and good, but what I need right now is a left-handed batter who can hit the ball over the shortstop's head.

Casey Stengel

Batter'd Quotes #100876
#3. The one unbreakable rule about hitting is this: if a batter hits well with his own particular stance and swing, think twice - or more - before suggesting a change.

Stan Musial

Batter'd Quotes #102507
#4. You two are perfect together, like you were made from the same cookie batter.

Dannika Dark

Batter'd Quotes #106195
#5. God gives us the vision, then he takes us down to the valley to batter us into the shape of the vision, and it is in the valley that so many of us faint and give way. Every vision will be made real if we will have patience.

Oswald Chambers

Batter'd Quotes #147032
#6. You should not desire, he knows, the death of any human creature. Death is your prince, you are not his patron; when you think he is engaged somewhere, he will batter down your door, walks in and wipes his boots on you.

Hilary Mantel

Batter'd Quotes #166935
#7. That's one of the great gifts of this, the greatest of all games, baseball: it allows you, still, to lose yourself in a dream, to feel and remember a season of life when summer never seemed to die and the assault of cynicism hadn't begun to batter optimism.

Mike Barnicle

Batter'd Quotes #187680
#8. My heart feels zested. Finely shredded and ready to add to cake batter. It doesn't hurt, because it's not there anymore. Like the angel's chest, with her empty heart hole - but without the sparkler.

Laini Taylor

Batter'd Quotes #199729
#9. I was the girl with cake batter in her hair, egg on her shirt and her foot in her mouth. Always.

Kari Luna

Batter'd Quotes #205576
#10. Each one of them would have gladly done the task, but all they could do now was watch and wait as sticks and stones did their best to batter Ty to his knees in those cold waves.

Madeleine Urban

Batter'd Quotes #214255
#11. batter hell-bent on hitting a home run.

Joey K.

Batter'd Quotes #234339
#12. Carlton does not pitch to the hitter, he pitches through him. The batter hardly exists for Steve. He's playing an elevated game of catch.

Tim McCarver

Batter'd Quotes #243530
#13. If a cricketer, for instance, suddenly decided to go into a school and batter a lot of people to death with a cricket bat, which he could do very easily, I mean, are you going to ban cricket bats?

Philip, Duke Of Edinburgh

Batter'd Quotes #275217
#14. Watching a woman make Russian pancakes, you might think that she was calling on the spirits or extracting from the batter the philosopher's stone.

Anton Chekhov

Batter'd Quotes #280282
#15. Do not worry. Try to appear jolly and unconcerned. I have smiled often with the bases full with two strikes and three balls on the batter. This seems to unnerve.

Rube Foster

Batter'd Quotes #280814
#16. Feelings of hurt and betrayal and utter loss poured through me like batter hitting a hot skillet.

Karen White

Batter'd Quotes #304721
#17. I like to see a lot of pitches just to get a feel for being in the batter's box and seeing pitches.

Jason Bay

Batter'd Quotes #307675
#18. But I was thinking of a way
To feed oneself on batter,
And so go on from day to day
Getting a little fatter.

Lewis Carroll

Batter'd Quotes #308864
#19. By all means," cried the bard, his eyes lighting up. "A Fflam to the rescue! Storm the castle! Carry it by assault! Batter down the gates!"
"There's not much of it left to storm," said Eilonwy.
"Oh?" said Fflewddur, with disappointment. "Very well, we shall do the best we can.

Lloyd Alexander

Batter'd Quotes #312505
#20. The music folded over itself like batter being poured from a bowl, one note atop another ...

Sarah J. Maas

Batter'd Quotes #338767
#21. The pitcher setting up the batter. It's chess, and you play with it.

Al Leiter

Batter'd Quotes #367449
#22. When I was in the batter's box, I felt sorry for the pitcher.

Rogers Hornsby

Batter'd Quotes #371380
#23. become stable and some soil for the seed to grow. Make perfect pancakes If you are not good at making perfectly shaped pancakes, you can put the batter in a plastic ketchup bottle. From now on, your pancakes will be a lot more consistent and there will be less mess when cooking.

Sarah Brooks

Batter'd Quotes #373517
#24. But think of how much worse it would be to sit here, not knowing. Until the Dead choke the Ratterlin and Hedge walks across the dry bed of the river to batter down the door.

Garth Nix

Batter'd Quotes #376558
#25. When you step into the batter's box, have nothing on your mind except baseball.

Pete Rose

Batter'd Quotes #423263
#26. Peace ... Henrietta was not quite sure what it was but she knew it was very important. If one wanted it, Grandfather had told her once, one must not hit back when fate hit hard but must allow the hammer-strokes to batter out a hollow place inside one into which peace, like cool water, could flow.

Elizabeth Goudge

Batter'd Quotes #449174
#27. That was the strength of Ellysetta's weave. Bright, unyielding,indefatigable love. Love that did not know surrender. Love that did not understand limitations or even basic self-preservation. Love that would batter itself to death before giving in to defeat.

C.L. Wilson

Batter'd Quotes #454865
#28. At the end of the day, it's a series of individual challenges played out against a team defense. It's a psersonal test every time I step into the batter's box: Can I do better than the last time? And that's why I love it.

Barry Lyga

Batter'd Quotes #473761
#29. When I start thinking in the batter's box, that's when I get into trouble.

Dan Uggla

Batter'd Quotes #487562
#30. My job is to confront apathy and confront all the forces that tend to batter each of us down with all kind of oppression, even self-oppression. I consider that the main job of the art that I do- to rattle the cage, wake people up, wake myself up, confront all that would conspire to keep us down.

Lydia Lunch

Batter'd Quotes #493945
#31. The beanball is one of the meanest things on Earth and no decent fellow would use it. The beanball is a potential murderer. If I were a batter and thought the pitcher really tried to bean me, I'd be inclined to wait for him outside the park with a baseball bat.

Walter Johnson

Batter'd Quotes #498280
#32. One time I snuck a ball on with me and when I went to winding up, I threw one of them balls to first and one to second. I was so smooth I picked off both runners and fanned the batter without that ump or the other team even knowing it.

Satchel Paige

Batter'd Quotes #498709
#33. We batter this planet as if we had someplace else to go.

Ann Druyan

Batter'd Quotes #509068
#34. Any pitcher who throws at a batter and deliberately tries to hit him is a communist.

Alvin Dark

Batter'd Quotes #511705
#35. Griddle cakes, pancakes, hot cakes, flapjacks: why are there four names for grilled batter and only one word for love?

George Carlin

Batter'd Quotes #525932
#36. Her freckles were delectable. Most fellows didn't care for freckles as a rule, thinking they were tough-looking. But Betty's were appealing. Like cake batter you could wipe off with your thumb, buttery and sweet.

Katherine Howe

Batter'd Quotes #560948
#37. When a batter swings and I see his knees move, I can tell just what his weaknesses are then I just put the ball where I know he can't hit it.

Satchel Paige

Batter'd Quotes #568883
#38. I remember one time going out to the mound to talk with Bob Gibson. He told me to get back behind the batter; that the only thing I knew about pitching was that it was hard to hit!

Tim McCarver

Batter'd Quotes #587784
#39. When I step into the batter's box, the fans, the noise, the cheers, they all disappear. For that moment, the world is just a battle between me and the pitcher. And more than anything, I want to win.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Batter'd Quotes #620334
#40. Baseball is a movable conversation across nine innings. It is eye contact with the person seated next to you in a park where the pitcher is separated from the batter by 60 feet, six inches or in a family room where a 60-inch TV screen hangs on the wall.

Mike Barnicle

Batter'd Quotes #621335
#41. I've spent the last decade learning to stand firm and face my problems ... or at least batter them until they're unrecognizable.

Kelley Armstrong

Batter'd Quotes #627198
#42. Today a pitcher gets fined if the umpire thinks he threw at a batter. In the olden days, the umpire didn't have to take any courses in mind reading. The pitcher told you he was going to throw at you.

Leo Durocher

Batter'd Quotes #635358
#43. Is that a hat?" I asked, pouring eight rounds of batter into the griddle.
She grinned at me. "A sweater." She held it up
it was triangular, made of speckled brown and white mohair.
"For ... a Muppet?" I asked.
"For the naked chicken," she said, and snickered.

Cate Tiernan

Batter'd Quotes #670487
#44. He smokes too much weed. I can taste it in his spunk. I need to get him to eat more pineapple to sweeten his seed. I'm like the Iron Chef of ball batter.

Jaden Wilkes

Batter'd Quotes #674469
#45. To live healty, you should have success. Success make your life interesting and batter.

Deyth Banger

Batter'd Quotes #676876
#46. If the shortstop makes an error, I am responsible. I let the batter hit the ball.

Pedro Martinez

Batter'd Quotes #688873
#47. Oh, honey, if he swung batter-batter for my team, I'd be all over that in a heartbeat.

J. Lynn

Batter'd Quotes #718551
#48. I get the idea,' said Mark though with an inward reservation that his present instinctive desire to batter the Professor's face into jelly would take a good deal of destroying.

C.S. Lewis

Batter'd Quotes #725655
#49. Baseball skills schizophrenically encompass a pitcher's, a batter's and a fielder's.

John Updike

Batter'd Quotes #731581
#50. The Church's foundation is unshakable and firm against the assaults of the raging sea. Waves lash at the Church but do not shatter it. Although the elements of this world constantly batter and crash against her, she offers the safest harbor of salvation for all in distress.

Ambrose

Batter'd Quotes #737014
#51. No self-respecting pitcher throws the same way to every batter and no self-respecting salesman makes the same pitch to every client.

Ray Kroc

Batter'd Quotes #779040
#52. Drum on your drums, batter on your banjos, sob on the long cool winding saxophones. Go to it, O jazzmen.

Carl Sandburg

Batter'd Quotes #779475
#53. Someone's at the gate," Kit says as he pours another swirl of batter onto the hot skillet. "Ciere, if it's your mob friends, please invite them in for coffee. Just because they're blackmailing you doesn't mean you shouldn't be polite.

Emily Lloyd-Jones

Batter'd Quotes #788302
#54. Magic ran in the family. Even her mother's second cousin, who was adopted, did small spells on the side. She sold these from a stall in Kota Bharu. Her main wares were various types of fruit fried in batter, but if you bought five pisang or cempedak goreng, she threw in a jampi for free.

Zen Cho

Batter'd Quotes #794830
#55. I played a lot of baseball growing up, and I always hit better if I kept moving before the pitch instead of standing still in the batter's box. I think a waggle does the same thing in the golf swing. It keeps you relaxed and gets your body ready to hit the ball.

Jason Dufner

Batter'd Quotes #813507
#56. There was a sense of tightness in the room now, filling the space. Attraction was like that. It filled. It poured into you like batter into a pan, sticking to the sides.

Sarah Addison Allen

Batter'd Quotes #855366
#57. When you have counted eighty years and more, Time and Fate will batter at your door; But if you should survive to be a hundred, Your life will be death to the very core.

Khushwant Singh

Batter'd Quotes #867624
#58. The will, the will not ever to die, the refusal to resign oneself to death, ceaselessly builds the house of life while the keen blasts and icy winds of reason unceasingly batter at the structure and beat it down.

Miguel De Unamuno

Batter'd Quotes #886141
#59. I shall await the first shot, and if you do not batter us to pieces, we shall be starved out in a few days.

Robert Anderson

Batter'd Quotes #887593
#60. Only one person can own any plate at a time. It belongs to the pitcher, or it belongs to the batter, Aiken, but not to both. You understand.

Allan Dare Pearce

Batter'd Quotes #906858
#61. Batter my heart, three-personed God, for you As yet but knock; breathe, shine, and seek to mend; That I may rise, and stand, o'erthrow me, and bend Your force to break, blow, burn, and make me new.

John Donne

Batter'd Quotes #929986
#62. I've got icewater in my veins and I hope you freeze on the first bite. Come on, you busher! Batter-fucking-up!

Stephen King

Batter'd Quotes #945165
#63. Must one first batter their ears, that they may learn to hear with their eyes? Must one clatter like kettledrums and penitential preachers? Or do they only believe the stammerer?

Friedrich Nietzsche

Batter'd Quotes #947328
#64. There is never any real danger in allowing a pedestal for a hero. He never has time to sit on it. One sees him always over and over again kicking his pedestal out from under him, and using it to batter a world with.

Gerald Stanley Lee

Batter'd Quotes #956128
#65. Gratefulness is a double-edged sword. Because I think we've poured it into a feeling. And the batter of gratitude gets kind of stuck to the edges of the Williams Sonoma melamine mixing bowl. But gratefulness, the act of being grateful is actually ... a verb. It's an activity.

Abigail Spencer

Batter'd Quotes #981349
#66. Now I know that I don't have to go after every batter with the hardest pitch I've got.

Jeremy Bonderman

Batter'd Quotes #994898
#67. A good base stealer should make the whole infield jumpy. Whether you steal or not, you're changing the rhythm of the game. If the pitcher is concerned about you, he isn't concentrating enough on the batter.

Joe Morgan

Batter'd Quotes #995259
#68. The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd,
Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made.

Edmund Waller

Batter'd Quotes #1007009
#69. I knew at a young age, whether I was playing baseball or hockey or lacrosse, that my teammates were counting on me, whether it be to strike the last batter out in a baseball game or score a big goal in a hockey game.

Wayne Gretzky

Batter'd Quotes #1013905
#70. Krispy Kreme claims the 'batter is the best part.' Same with an Obama speech. It's all about what's on the outside, not what's inside.

Kathleen Troia McFarland

Batter'd Quotes #1017936
#71. Even when black youth gangs target white strangers on the streets and spew out racial hatred as they batter them and rob them, mayors, police chiefs and the media tiptoe around their racism and many in the media either don't cover these stories or leave out the race and racism involved.

Thomas Sowell

Batter'd Quotes #1035019
#72. Tony Gwynn, the fat batter behind Finley, is waiting.

Jerry Coleman

Batter'd Quotes #1094080
#73. If you could make a pudding wi' thinking o' the batter, it 'ud be easy getting dinner.

George Eliot

Batter'd Quotes #1120627
#74. The area was encompassed in a bubble of warm, fragrant steam from the funnel cake deep fryers. It smelled like sweet vanilla cake batter you licked off a spoon.

Sarah Addison Allen

Batter'd Quotes #1146599
#75. A man who gives himself to be a possession of aliens leads a Yahoo life, having bartered his soul to a brute-master. He is not of them. He may stand against them, persuade himself of a mission, batter and twist them into something which they, of their own accord, would not have been.

T.E. Lawrence

Batter'd Quotes #1173512
#76. If a cricketer suddenly decided to go into a school and batter a lot of people to death with a cricket bat, are you going to ban cricket bats?

Prince Philip

Batter'd Quotes #1179962
#77. Major League Baseball Rule 6.08(b) suggests that in this situation, the batter would be considered "hit by pitch," and would be eligible to advance to first base.

Randall Munroe

Batter'd Quotes #1180403
#78. My instinct is a winning coach, and when it said "Batter up,"I didn't argue that I wasn't ready for the game. I gripped the bat in both hands, assumed the stance, and said a prayer to Mickey Mantle.

Dean Koontz

Batter'd Quotes #1186168
#79. Dip a slice of bread in batter. That's September: yellow, gold, soft and sticky. Fry the bread. Now you have October: chewier, drier, streaked with browns. The day in question fell somewhere in the middle of the french toast process.

Tom Robbins

Batter'd Quotes #1274620
#80. The toughest thing in hitting shouldn't be deciding when to swing. It is, for me, deciding when not to swing. You should be swinging from the time you get into the batter's box until something says don't swing.

Chili Davis

Batter'd Quotes #1356434
#81. The big man grunted heavily again, dick blasting away inside, coating my inner channel with baby batter.

Cassandra Dee

Batter'd Quotes #1357366
#82. Your personal history of pain, by the time you reached the age of forty, was supposedto have been folded thoroughly into the batter of the self, so that you barely needed to acknowledge it anymore.

Meg Wolitzer

Batter'd Quotes #1381592
#83. "Only the pots know the boiling points of the broths," she says as Tita weeps into the wedding batter she is making to celebrate the marriage of her sister to her own true love.

Laura Esquivel

Batter'd Quotes #1385415
#84. Death is your prince, you are not his patron; when you think he is engaged elsewhere, he will batter down your door, walk in and wipe his boots on you.

Hilary Mantel

Batter'd Quotes #1388546
#85. Every time I step up to the plate, I expect to get a hit. If I don't expect to get a hit, I have no right to step into the batter's box in the first place.

Pete Rose

Batter'd Quotes #1401785
#86. Tis midnight now. The bend and broken moon, Batter'd and black, as from a thousand battles, Hangs silent on the purple walls of Heaven.

Joaquin Miller

Batter'd Quotes #1407350
#87. I finally figured out the real difference between irony and satire
irony is when you fry a chicken in batter mixed from its own eggs, and satire is when you crack jokes about it.

Taylor Anderson

Batter'd Quotes #1431635
#88. I must fling myself down and writhe; I must strive with every piece of force I possess; I bruise and batter myself against the floor, the walls; I strain and sob and exhaust myself, and begin again, and exhaust myself again; but do I feel pain? Never. How can I feel pain? There is no place for it.

Harry Houdini

Batter'd Quotes #1432804
#89. The last batter to hit, blast shattered your hip,
Smash any splitter or fastball-that'll be it.

Pharoahe Monch

Batter'd Quotes #1442807
#90. I watched her hands as they worked the batter over with a wooden spoon. I wanted to kiss them.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

Batter'd Quotes #1457183
#91. Think, in this batter'd Caravanserai
Whose portals are alternate Night and Day,
How Sultan after Sultan with his Pomp
Abode his destin'd Hour and went his way.

Omar Khayyam

Batter'd Quotes #1467439
#92. Sir Falwick," said Geralt, not ceasing to smile. "If he draws his sword, I'll take it from him and beat the snotty-nosed little brat's arse with the flat of his blade. And then I'll batter the door down with him.

Andrzej Sapkowski

Batter'd Quotes #1475079
#93. After tiny has tried ballerina pose, swing-batter-batter pose, pump-up-the-jam pose, and top-of-the-mountain-sound-of-music pose in the reflection of the bean, he walks us to a bench overlooking lake shore drive.

David Levithan

Batter'd Quotes #1477898
#94. Just tell me you're mine, I'm yours, and you won't kiss, fuck or otherwise let any other man batter dip his corn dog with you.

C.M. Stunich

Batter'd Quotes #1485068
#95. I managed a team that was so bad we considered a 2-0 count on the batter a rally.

Rich Donnelly

Batter'd Quotes #1493163
#96. I wasn't an expert on feelings, but Amma's were all stirred up in cake batter, and she wasn't about to share them. She'd rather give away the cake.

Kami Garcia

Batter'd Quotes #1531421
#97. Batter up, mofo.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

Batter'd Quotes #1556846
#98. If they [Mexicans] touch the hair of the head of one of our citizens, tell him [Commodore Dallas] to batter down and destroy their town and exterminate the inhabitants from the face of the earth!

Andrew Jackson

Batter'd Quotes #1576271
#99. My fingers are too short to enable me to get grip enough on the ball to pitch a deep curve, so that I have been compelled to depend more on drops, straight balls and the different artifices known to pitchers to deceive the batter.

Pud Galvin

Batter'd Quotes #1637829
#100. Life is not as idle ore,
But iron dug from central gloom,
And heated hot with burning fears,
And dipt in baths of hissing tears,
And batter'd with the shocks of doom,
To shape and use.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Batter'd Quotes #1676619

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