Quotes by Bats When the ball is over the middle of the plate, the batter is hitting it with the sweet part of the bat. When it's inside, he's hitting it with the part of the bat from the handle to the trademark. When it's outside, he's hitting it with the end of the bat. You've got to keep the ball away from the sweet part of the bat. To do that, the pitcher has to move the hitter off the plate. Don Drysdale bats sweet moving I like being close to the bats. Don Mattingly bats I was never coached; I was never told how to hold a bat. Donald Bradman bats I hope that more [African-Americans] decide to play after seeing the things that I was able to accomplish; not only myself, but other African-American players. Hopefully, they pick up a bat and a ball and go out there and play. Dontrelle Willis bats african-american player If he had his wits about him Bunny would surely keep his mouth shut; but now, with his subconscious mind knocked loose from its perch and flapping in the hollow corridors of his skull as erratically as a bat, there was no way to be sure of anything he might do. Donna Tartt bats skulls mind 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 Douglas Rushkoff bats support lines I've got a right to knock down anybody holding a bat. Early Wynn bats Place hitting is, in a sense, glorified bunting. I only take a half swing at the ball, and the weight of the bat rather than my swing is what drives it. Edd Roush bunting swings bats 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. Eliezer Yudkowsky bats baseball people Everyone in my grade is turning 13, so there are bunches of bar and bat mitzvahs. They're very dressy. It's fun picking out outfits. One girl, for her bat mitzvah, wore a huge red ball gown! Elle Fanning bats girl fun He'd have to be blinder than a bat. ~Alexander Ellen Schreiber bats People always ask me how I can hit the ball so far, and I say, 'I just swing.' It's the coaches who first told me I had good bat speed. I was just swinging, and I guess it was fast. I'm pretty fast at everything. Eric Davis swings bats people A nod's as good as a wink to a blind bat! Eric Idle nudge-nudge circus bats When you're mad at someone, it's probably best not to break his arm with a baseball bat. Evel Knievel mad-at-someone bats baseball I dont know about happily ever after... but I know about happily, Weetzie Bat thought. Francesca Lia Block happily-ever-after ever-after bats Tara (Lipinski) got out there like a bat out of hell and skated her guts out. Michelle skated very well, but she skated conservatively. She skated great, just not fantastic. That was the difference. Frank Carroll hell bats differences I have no expectation of making a hit every time I come to bat. Franklin D. Roosevelt bats expectations 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. Fred Saberhagen bats rejection cake Every at-bat, I try to hit the ball. I don't like to strike out. I put the ball in play a lot, so I'll take the hits as they come. Garrett Atkins bats play trying If Trescothick had tried to get me off the field when batting well, I'd have hit him with my bat. Geoffrey Boycott bats fields athlete «1234567891011»