Batter's Box Quotes

#1. When I was in the batter's box, I felt sorry for the pitcher.

Rogers Hornsby

#2. Maybe the day will come when I can sit back and be content ... But until that day comes, I intend to stay in the batter's box - I don't let the big guys push me out of there anymore - and keep hammering away.

Hank Aaron

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. When I start thinking in the batter's box, that's when I get into trouble.

Dan Uggla

#8. 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

#9. When you step into the batter's box, have nothing on your mind except baseball.

Pete Rose

#10. 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

#11. Last week I was just someone who had had a first novel published.

Jon McGregor

#12. Your relationship with God, others, yourself, and all creation keeps changing for the better. Most of the world's religions have developed maps to describe this process.

Thomas Keating

#13. Memories are bullets. Some whiz by and only spook you. Others tear you open and leave you in pieces.

Richard Kadrey

#14. She who means no mischief does it all.

Aaron Hill

#15. Put yourself in the position of an up-and-coming artist living in early-sixteenth-century Italy. Now imagine trying to distinguish yourself from the other artists living in your town: Michelangelo, Raphael, Leonardo, or Titian. Is it any wonder that the Italian High Renaissance lasted only 30 years?

Jerry Saltz

#16. No. What would I look like fighting for equality with the white man? I don't want to go down that low. I want the true democracy that'll raise me and that white man up raise America up.

Fannie Lou Hamer

#17. Somehow I've traveled back in time to my third-grade playground days. Unless there's another explanation for why Garrett is goading me into kissing him.

Elle Kennedy

#18. I've been missing Japanese literature so much of late.

Utada Hikaru