Quotes of: Bats Keyword

To cure a batting slump, I took my bat to bed with me. I wanted to know my bat a little better.

Richie Ashburn

Great," mumbles Kelly. "Bat stew cooked on a bat shit fire by an old bat.

Where the Rock Splits the Sky

As in diamonds so in batting, perfection requires flawlessness and nowhere is a batting imperfection more quickly recognised than in the dropped catch. For this reason any innings worthy of consideration deserves to have all its flaws studied to esta...

Masterly Batting: 100 Great Test Innings

When we played the Dodgers in St. Louis, they had to come through our dugout, and our bat rack was right there where they had to walk. My bats kept disappearing, and I couldn't figure it out. Turns out, Pee Wee Reese was stealing my bats. I found tha...

Stan Musial

I was nervous batting eighth, and I was nervous batting seventh.

Dontrelle Willis

I am an arm hitter. When you snap the bat with your wrists just as you meet the ball, you give the bat tremendous speed for a few inches of its course. The speed with which the bat meets the ball is the thing that counts.

Zack Wheat

[Frank grabs a baseball bat and gets one of the umpire's attention] Frank: Oh, excuse me. Could you tell me... is this an official bat? [Frank strikes the umpire's head with the bat knocking him out]

The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!

at least a fifth of all mammalian species are bats.

Bats Sing, Mice Giggle: The Surprising Science of Animals' Inner Lives

I got rabies shots for biting the head off a bat but that's OK - the bat had to get Ozzy shots.

Ozzy Osbourne

Used to be bats had thick handles and a big barrel. Then they found it's not the size of the bat that gets home runs - it's the speed with which you can swing it.

Stan Musial

Legolas: [sees a flock of giant bats] These bats are bred for one purpose... for war!

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

The phrase 'off with the crack of the bat', while romantic, is really meaningless, since the outfielder should be in motion long before he hears the sound of the ball meeting the bat.

Joe DiMaggio

Though it's cold and lonely in the deep dark night, I can see paradise by the dashboard light.

Meat Loaf - Bat Out of Hell

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

I touched Roger's bat and held it to my heart. My bat will lie next to his. I'm damn proud of that.

Mark McGwire

Fans love McGwire for his powerful physique, for his on-field hugs of his son, the part-time bat boy. He is Big Mac, or Paul Bunyan in Cardinals red with a white-ash bat instead of an ax.

Bill Dedman

Bats have no bankers and they do not drink and cannot be arrested and pay no tax and, in general, bats have it made.

John Berryman

Jim Gordon: [hearing bat sounds] What is that? Batman: Back-up. Flass: What the...? [bats swarm around Arkham]

Batman Begins

Love doesn't think like that. All right, it's blind as a bat--' 'Bats have radar. Yours doesn't seem to be working.

The Sea, the Sea

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

I like to keep most of my bats. I think I have about 250 bats, including my first - which cost Rs 2000 - a gift from my dad in 1998, when I moved to the hostel.

Suresh Raina