Top 100 Quotes About Batting
#1. On a train from Shimla to Delhi, there was a halt in one of the stations. The train stopped by for few minutes as usual. Sachin was nearing century, batting on 98. The passengers, railway officials, everyone on the train waited for Sachin to complete the century. This Genius can stop time in India!
Peter Roebuck
#2. A Home Run Derby is fun. It's just like taking batting practice, and you just want to go deep. Guys do it every day. Yes, there's a little more pressure when they pull that cage back, but if you practice properly, it shouldn't affect the second half of your season at all.
Frank Thomas
#3. Jesper gave him a little shake. "Pull it together, kid." "Not a kid," Wylan mumbled, batting Jesper's hands away. "Fine, you're an elder statesman. Do you know how to shoot?" Wylan nodded slowly. "Skeet.
Leigh Bardugo
#4. I like hitting fourth and I like the good batting average. But what I do every day behind the plate is a lot more important because it touches so many more people and so many more aspects of the game.
Thurman Munson
#5. I was nervous batting eighth, and I was nervous batting seventh.
Dontrelle Willis
#6. Grownups, as a rule, should always be ready to pay for their own meals - or else ready to graciously accept their date's insistence on paying. The point is, one doesn't sit there batting one's eyelashes, fully expecting someone else to claim the bill.
Lynn Coady
#7. So much violence. If God existed, I'd have strangled him on the spot. Without batting an eyelid. And with all the fury of the damned.
Jean-Claude Izzo
#8. I know about winning batting titles.
Pete Rose
#9. Test cricket is bloody hard work, especially when you've got Sachin batting with what looks like a three metre wide bat.
Michael Hussey
#10. I didn't think much about batting average when I was playing.
Harmon Killebrew
#11. You throw batting practice, you warm up pitchers, you sit and cheer. You do whatever you have to do to stay on the team.
Bob Uecker
#12. My batting average has been good, so people ask how much luck is involved. I tell them when I work 14 hours a day, 7 days a week, I get lucky.
Armand Hammer
#13. At this point I'd take my chances with nearly anyone if they got me off the batting cage. Even if this was the Sparkly Vampire Rescue & World Domination League, I was still getting in the damn helicopter.
Dennis Liggio
#14. 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
#15. Children and even adults, when they like certain athletes, they can tell you about their batting average, about where they came from.
Jamie Farr
#16. Joe DiMaggio batting sometimes gave the impression, the suggestion that the old rules and dimensions of baseball no longer applied to him, and that the game had at last grown unfairly easy.
Donald Hall
#17. Let's face it, making movies is all risk. Most of the time, batting average-wise, the reward does not outweigh the risk.
John Slattery
#18. That also means the antivirus software you are running on your own computer is likely only catching 5 percent of the emerging threats targeting your machine. If your body's own immune system had a batting average like that, you would be dead in a matter of hours.
Marc Goodman
#19. The Indian bowlers picked me for sledging when I was batting well. They called me school boy. But I was enjoying it and I had answered it with my bat,
Mushfiqur Rahim
#20. It would be useless for any player to attempt to explain successful batting.
Tris Speaker
#21. 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
#22. I hope you always stay this way. Sweet and innocent. But I want to be the one to enlighten you. Your legs are sexy as hell, and your eyelashes are so thick and long that when you blink it looks like you're batting them,
Abbi Glines
#23. The greatest competitor was Bob Gibson. He worked so fast out there and he always had the hood up. He always wanted to close his own deal. He never talked to you because he was battling so hard. I sure as hell don't miss batting against him, but I miss him in the game.
Pete Rose
#24. Batting her hand away, Wolf dug his fingers into Scarlet's hair and crushed his mouth against hers. Her protests died with a muffled gasp. This
Marissa Meyer
#25. We have to judge politicians by their cumulative score. In one innings they make a great catch, in another they drop the ball. In one they score a home run, in another they strike out. But it is their cumulative batting average that we are interested in.
Jesse Jackson
#26. What a well-designed forecasting system can do is sort out which statistics are relatively more susceptible to luck; batting average, for instance, is more erratic than home runs.
Nate Silver
#27. When the leaves turn brown, I'll be wearing the batting crown
Dave Parker
#28. If I have a 100 percent batting average, you should fire me, because it means we haven't tried anything really noble.
Larry Brilliant
#29. There were times last year when people looked at the scoreboard and thought my batting average was the temperature.
Buck Martinez
#30. You live and die in the batting of my eyes. You cast a wavering shadow over the snow for a day. I cast my shadow over empires across eons." - Orm Hinn Langi the Dragon
Lou Anders
#31. I've seen batting all over the world. And in other countries too
Keith Miller
#32. I had been having trouble sleeping, and had found that actually getting up was marginally preferable to lying in my bed batting away the swirling mess of my thoughts.
Jojo Moyes
#33. If I had to last 20 years, I would probably be batting in a wheelchair.
Ricky Ponting
#34. I'm a pitcher, so the glove is my only accessory. The hitters get to have all the fun. They have batting helmets, the actual bats, gloves, elbow guards - all this cool stuff to wear. And all I get is a glove.
C. J. Wilson
#35. Sometimes I need to look at the scoreboard to figure out whether I'm batting hundred-plus or whether I am on zero.
Sachin Tendulkar
#36. I can't really say I'm batting badly. I'm not batting long enough to be batting badly
Greg Chappell
#37. Rationality is not just something you do so that you can make more money, it is a binding principle. Rationality is a really good idea. You must avoid the nonsense that is conventional in one's own time. It requires developing systems of thought that improve your batting average over time.
Charlie Munger
#38. If Trescothick had tried to get me off the field when batting well, I'd have hit him with my bat.
Geoffrey Boycott
#39. If I had done everything I was supposed to, I'd be leading the league in homers, have the highest batting average, have given $100,000 to the Cancer Fund and be married to Marie Osmond.
Catfish Hunter
#40. I tried to use batting gloves at the beginning of every spring training up until 1999. It just didn't feel good.
Vladimir Guerrero
#41. People think I must have all these superstitions, but I don't. I use my batting gloves 'til they wear out. I broke four or five bats during the streak, and I didn't cry over any of them.
Jimmy Rollins
#42. Campaign boot camp started as an opportunity to work in a grassroots way with people who were running for Congress. Colleagues on the Democratic National Committee were batting around different possibilities. I said, 'We should have boot camps.'
Christine Pelosi
#43. Just delighted to make your acquaintance." Mom was batting her lashes, but it looked like she had something in her eye. Confirmed when Razor asked, "What's wrong with your eye?" Mom
L.A. Fiore
#44. Presence' is actually very important in international sport. It is one thing just being there in the middle, but it is another making people aware of your 'presence'. It is about body language and radiating confidence, something that the West Indian batting legend Viv Richards would personify.
Sachin Tendulkar
#45. I've been taking batting practice in my barn where nobody can see me, so I may be better than anyone thinks.
Garth Brooks
#46. I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice.
Hank Aaron
#47. If you're batting and you go off on one it can't really help you.
Andrew Flintoff
#48. God isn't really interested in our batting averages.
Dale Murphy
#49. He has defined cricket in his fabulous, impeccable manner. He is to batting what Shane Warne is to bowling.
Richie Benaud
#50. He (Mickey Mantle) should lead the league in everything. With his combination of speed and power he should win the triple batting crown every year. In fact, he should do anything he wants to do.
Casey Stengel
#51. Sachin was so focused. He never looked like getting out. He was batting with single-minded devotion. It was truly remarkable. It was a lesson.
Martina Navratilova
#52. I've learned that getting what you want gives you a pretty high batting average, and leaves you plenty to struggle for.
Loretta Young
#53. How different South Africa's cricketing achievements, and indeed the future of the country itself, might have been if racism had not denied Frank Roro the opportunity of batting with Bruce Mitchell in the Lord's sunshine.
Richard Lloyd Parry
#54. Commit all your crimes when Sachin is batting. They will go unnoticed because even the Lord is watching.
Sachin Tendulkar
#55. I don't want to take anything away from Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle. They're both great hitters, but they're batting against guys they never would have seen in previous years.
Ted Williams
#56. What are you doing today that serves the greater mission for your life? Once you can answer that question without batting an eye, that's when you're really on to something.
Chris Hill
#57. I don't know about Cricket but still I watch Cricket to see Sachin play..Not because I love his play, its because I want to know the reason why my country's production goes down by 5 percent when he is in batting
Barack Obama
#58. In baseball, you can hit 40 home runs on a single-A-league team and never get paid a thing. But in a hedge fund, you get paid on your batting average. So you go to the worst league you can find, where there's the least competition.
Julian Robertson
#59. This program is subject to change
often unexpectedly, sometimes in the batting of an eye. It's the best argument I know against suicide.
Tom Robbins
#60. Maybe I'm delusional but I'm usually funny. It's not 100% but I have a pretty good batting average.
Adam Carolla
#61. The career batting average (.254) during parts of five Major League seasons for Francisco Cabrera - which proves that it takes only one big hit, on the right stage, to become a legend. Cabrera is still honored in Atlanta, and rightfully so, for winning the 1992 NLCS vs. Pittsburgh.
Tucker Elliot
#62. I had very good support from Democrats and Republicans all throughout my administration. I had a very high batting average. We added more jobs per year in my four years than any other president since the Second World War.
Jimmy Carter
#63. 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
#64. Imagine if you had baseball cards that showed all the performance stats for your people: batting averages, home runs, errors, ERAs, win/loss records. You could see what they did well and poorly and call on the right people to play the right positions in a very transparent way.
Ray Dalio
#65. We're not going to have a perfect batting average and it's important that Americans understand that.
Michael Leiter
#67. A run is more difficult to make than no save, because batting is in its nature a far less certain and reliable thing than bowling and fielding.
Ranjitsinhji
#68. It is only fair to admit, however, that my batting average in the crystal ball league is point, zero, zero, zero.
Leslie Ford
#69. Support your partner in their interests. You never know when batting practice, kung fu movie moves, or even a poker night might come in handy during a zombie infestation.
Jesse Petersen
#70. Since 2008, batters have hit only .175 against pitches thrown at 100 m.p.h. or above. Batting averages go up as the speed of the pitches goes down: .210 at 99, .213 at 98, .225 at 97, .242 at 96 and .252 at 95.
Barry Bearak
#72. I had a .200 lifetime batting average in the major leagues, which tied me with another sports great averaging 200 or better for a ten-year period: Don Carter, one of our top bowlers.
Bob Uecker
#73. Obviously, a lot of things play on your mind when you're batting. This might happen and this might not. The best thing you can do when you're batting is not to think too much, and wait for the next ball.
Yuvraj Singh
#74. If you are anything like me you'll have to fight tooth-and-nail to stay in the game (evangelism). Because although the home runs have been invigorating, my batting average over the years is abysmally low.
Bill Hybels
#75. You're not going to have a 1.000 batting average, but the way you get votes is, you just push and you push. I'm not afraid to do that.
Tim Kaine
#76. I couldn't help myself. This woman whom I'd seen handle an entire boardroom full of cocky sons of bitches without batting an eye was crazy adorable. She was tough as nails and hotter than sin. And Christ, she was hilarious. I wanted more of her. A lot fucking more.
Max Monroe
#77. It is difficult batting in artificial light with a red ball but it's a horrible task for umpires to make a judgement, particularly if they're going by light meters.
Adam Gilchrist
#78. Ballplayers who are first to the dining room are usually last in batting averages.
Jimmy Cannon
#79. I remember one time I'm batting against the Dodgers in Milwaukee. They lead, 2 - 1, it's the bottom of the ninth, bases loaded, two out and the pitcher has a full count on me. I look over to the Dodger dugout and they're all in street clothes.
Bob Uecker
#81. I never realized that batting a little ball around could cause so much commotion. I now know how (Charles) Lindbergh must have felt when he returned from St. Louis.
Stan Musial
#82. I think we've been a lot more disciplined with our bowling. Our batting at times has been more disciplined as well.
Ricky Ponting
#83. I'd known cruelty in a school - cruelty that would keep these amateurs up all night. But this kind of scene - crowds batting around a person because they thought he was weak - happened to be my personal trigger.
Laura Anderson Kurk
#84. She looked at the ceiling, eyelashes batting like hummingbird wings.
Dennis Vickers
#85. As for my batting, the best part about it is I have never changed it. I have never changed my thinking, I have never changed my batting style.
Virender Sehwag
#86. What gets lost is we wouldn't be who we are and as successful as we have been if we didn't have a decent batting average.
Satya Nadella
#87. Teams can't prepare for me in batting practice. They can't find anyone who throws as slow as I do.
Dave LaPoint
#88. Women can accept the fact that a man is a rotter, a swindler, a drug taker, a confirmed liar, and a general swine, without batting an eyelash, and without its impairing their affection for the brute in the least. Women are wonderful realists.
Agatha Christie
#89. I lean back. "What the hell are you doing?"
"What do you mean?" she asks, innocently batting her eyelashes against the hot sun beaming down on us.
Is she kidding me?
"Where's you toungue?" I ask stupidly.
Her wet little eyebrows furrow. "In my mouth. Why, where's it supposed to be?
Simone Elkeles
#90. I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice.
Casey Stengel
#91. The federal government does not trample in jackboots those with whom it does business. It wraps them in cotton batting and, when they express ingratitude, apologizes profusely.
Timothy Noah
#92. The best way to know how Virender Sehwag's mind works is to sit next to him in the players' balcony when India are batting. Every few minutes he will clutch his head and yell, 'Chauka gaya' or 'Chhakka gaya'.
Sourav Ganguly
#93. I like to score and drive in runs more than pay attention to batting average.
Alex Rodriguez
#94. We devote our entire lives to becoming good ball players. We take batting practice until our hands bleed.
Willie Stargell
#95. What Strauss is going through drives you nuts. If you care about your batting - which I'm sure he does - he will feel like jumping off a bridge and committing suicide
Bill Vaughan
#96. Stengel admitted. "I'm not going to make any decision until I have to give the umpire my batting order. Then you'll know as well as I." The next afternoon, Casey resisted
Andrew O'Toole
#97. My own tastes happen to be in tune with what the public wants. I think that's the reason my batting average is so high, not because I've discovered some brilliant formula.
Cameron Mackintosh
#98. without batting an eye. She hated how much
Karen Rose
#99. I never keep a scorecard or the batting averages. I hate statistics. What I got to know, I keep in my head.
Dizzy Dean
#100. I'm still batting away on my politics for the Labour Party. I'm much further to the left of them than I used to be, but that's because they've moved, not me.
Billy Bragg
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