You only have to bat 1. 000 in two things-flying and heart transplants. Everything else, you can go four in five.
I have no expectation of making a hit every time I come to bat.
that crack of the bat against a ball has been my mantra, a sound I hear in desperate moments, at times when I crave total satisfaction, a sound I hear over and over when I want something very badly but can't express what it is.
The Olympics are great for notoriety right off the bat, but your body of work is what people remember you for.
You gotta keep the ball off the fat part of the bat.
Failure makes excuses. Success just keeps swinging the bat.
I always listen to music before I go out to bat. Any track, really, just whatever I feel like at the time.
If someone wants to lead a double life, they will find a way to do it. And they can promise you things until your nerves unfold and you can finally put up your feet. But it can all be a lie. There are no guarantees, even when people mean what they say at the time. People change their minds. People die. And the hurt is as real as a baseball bat.
The gap between bat and pad is so much that I would have driven a car through it. . . !!
If you want to end darkness you cannot beat it with a baseball bat, you have to turn on a light.
I might be shy, but in the field, where I have to do my work, I do it. I let my bat speak for myself.
The bat is gone, but the smile remains.
I need at least two months to try and figure out where the centre of the bat is.
I was going as soon as the ball hit the bat, it was lucky that it was a chopper. I just ran and hoped to God I was safe.
The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting.
I think I play center field better than I do anywhere else. I have enough speed and enough reaction to know where the ball goes off the bat.
Other crack teams get bat boomerangs and wall-climbing powers; we get Aquatruck.
I don't care where you are, but the fans only remember your last time at bat.
Hey there. Here's something familiar, a bat. Hope you like it.
When you're a kid, what fun the game is! You grab a bat and glove and ball, that's it. I know what Ted Williams and Stan Musial meant when they said it got tougher to get in shape every year.
