You have to be confident, but there are no easy at bats. There are no lay ups; there is no wide open pass. There is a guy on the mound who is trying to feed his family.
You can't blame someone for not knowing what his or her job should be if you don't ask for it right off the bat.
Bats have no bankers and they do not drink and cannot be arrested and pay no tax and, in general, bats have it made.
I had no issues with lesbians, but I didn't swing the bat that way, and I kind of resented getting molested.
A man with a club [bat] is a law-maker, a man to be obeyed, but not necessarily conciliated.
Bat doesn't hit ball, bat meets it.
Bat, pigeon, ravens - I don't care about distinctions right now. Any fluttery, flappy thing is not cool with me.
At one point, the old school club retires and you're next up to bat, but if you stop before your time, you will see someone else live your dream.
I learned to hit with a broomstick and a ball of tape and I could always get that bat on the ball.
There's no better sight on the cricket field than watch Tendulkar bat.
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.
If you go out to bat against Australia, they come at you hard.
If I have a son and he decides to play cricket, I will want him to bat like Sachin Tendulkar.
I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.
I understand Windows as well as most technical-support personnel. I can edit a config. sys file and delete bad lines in an autoexec. bat with the best of them. I can partition a hard drive in FAT32 But why would I want to?
I usually don't look at at-bats where I get out. I look at my hits. I look at good swings I put on balls. Because of that good swing or good at-bat, I can see what I need to continue to work on and recreate.
I had immediate success in the sense that I sold something right off the bat. I thought it was going to be a piece of cake and it really wasn't. I have drawers full of - or I did have - drawers full of rejection slips.
We have found that bats adjust the timing of their sounds when they encounter clutter, and they seem to 'strobe' the world with sound.
I'd like to see him go out and bat one day with a stump. I tell you that's what he's been doing all this while
If people got hit on the head by a baseball bat every week, pretty soon they would invent reasons why getting hit on the head with a baseball bat was a good thing.