You might pitch a ball on the off stump and think you have bowled a good ball and he walks across and hits it for two behind midwicket. His bat looks so heavy but he just waves it around like it's a toothpick.
To cure a batting slump, I took my bat to bed with me. I wanted to know my bat a little better.
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.
Today if I'm a cricketer it is because of Sachin Tendulkar. Else, I would never have picked up a bat. He's the reason behind me playing cricket
We have found that bats adjust the timing of their sounds when they encounter clutter, and they seem to 'strobe' the world with sound.
All careers go up and down like friendships, like marriages, like anything else, and you can't bat a thousand all the time.
When I find the motherfucker who tortured an innocent cat to death just to send us a warning, I'm going to clobber him with a baseball bat
He (Eric Davis) gets power from his bat speed. . . . . it's like he has cork in his arms.
When you're in Los Angeles, nobody bats an eye, they're so used to seeing actors, they just act really cool.
Welcome it as part of a process. . . you just can't avoid it. . . if you go to bat enough times, you are going to strike out; and you will do it cataclysmically; and you know success and failure are just millimeters apart.
I was always a little hesitant to accuse people of loading a bat to hit a ball farther. I was always very hesitant to approach people because I never had any evidence that I had firsthand knowledge of.
I resolve not to drink liquids before donning the Bat-suit.
I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn't my fault that I'm not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?
Perhaps not," said Will, who had ears like a bat's. "But I would make a radiant bride.
It's a pretty sure thing that the player's bat is what speaks loudest when it's contract time, but there are moments when the glove has the last word.
I'm sure I've been a toad, one time or another. With bats, weasels, worms. . . I rejoice in the kinship. Even the caterpillar I can love, and the various vermin.
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.
I use my single windup, my double windup, my triple windup, my hesitation windup, my no windup. I also use my step-n-pitch-it, my submariner, my sidearmer and my bat dodger. Man's got to do what he's got to do.
In this lineup, anywhere I hit, I don't care. I always go out there and swing the bat the same way.
Test cricket is bloody hard work, especially when you've got Sachin batting with what looks like a three metre wide bat.