Quotes about Bat

It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square. Votes: 5

A gun is no more dangerous than a cricket bat in the hands of a madman. Votes: 5

When I was a kid, I dreamed of using a bat with my own name on it. Votes: 5

I got rabies shots for biting the head off a bat but that's OK - the bat had to get Ozzy shots. Votes: 5

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. Votes: 5

A full mind is an empty bat. Votes: 4

I've got a right to knock down anybody holding a bat. Votes: 4

I don't think anyone would bat an eye if I wrote a song. Votes: 4

Being with a small publisher has been huge. They bat for me for everything. Votes: 4

You've got a little round ball and a little round bat and anything can happen. Votes: 4

I'm a bat. All my greatest, creative ideas come at night. So I hardly ever sleep. Votes: 4

When you're mad at someone, it's probably best not to break his arm with a baseball bat. Votes: 4

You know, I'm from Boston, and in Boston, you are born with a baseball bat in your hand. Votes: 4

I was much entertained last summer with a tame bat, which would take flies out of a person's hand. Votes: 4

To cure a batting slump, I took my bat to bed with me. I wanted to know my bat a little better. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

I am not a bat. ~Rephaim Votes: 3

She's a sort of human vampire-bat Votes: 3

A ball bat is a wondrous weapon. Votes: 3

Bat doesn't hit ball, bat meets it. Votes: 3

I would be comfortable to bat anywhere, Votes: 3

When I'm at bat, I'm in scoring position. Votes: 3

My party is going bat (EXPLETIVE DELETED) crazy. Votes: 3

The bat is gone, but the smile remains. Votes: 3

We can't stop here, this is bat country! Votes: 3

Cadillacs are down at the end of the bat. Votes: 3

Failure makes excuses. Success just keeps swinging the bat. Votes: 3

He'd have to be blinder than a bat. ~Alexander Votes: 3

If you want to learn batting, bat with MS Dhoni. Votes: 3

I'm always alright, as long as I've got [a bat]. Votes: 3

It's good to find the barrel of the bat again. Votes: 3

On the bat's back I do fly After summer merrily. Votes: 3

Finley is going over to get a new piece of bat. Votes: 3

A nod's as good as a wink to a blind bat! Votes: 3

I go game to game, at-bat to at-bat. That's my way. Votes: 3

Don't pick on your sister when she's holding a baseball bat. Votes: 3

The sound of the bat is the music of spring training. Votes: 3

Something else? That's the nice way of saying they're bat-shit crazy. Votes: 3

Hey there. Here's something familiar, a bat. Hope you like it. Votes: 3

I like to be aggressive. I like to swing the bat. Votes: 3

There's no better sight on the cricket field than watch Tendulkar bat. Votes: 3

I had great control, I never missed hitting the other's fellow bat. Votes: 3

Other crack teams get bat boomerangs and wall-climbing powers; we get Aquatruck. Votes: 3

You gotta keep the ball off the fat part of the bat. Votes: 3

Young man, if that bat comes down, you're out of the game Votes: 3

I was never coached; I was never told how to hold a bat. Votes: 3

And I can say that I’ll pay to watch MS Dhoni bat. Votes: 3

I'm not someone who needs to bat and bat to be in form. Votes: 3

If you go out to bat against Australia, they come at you hard. Votes: 3

Riddle me this, riddle me that. Who's afraid of the big black bat? Votes: 3

My pitching philosophy is simple - keep the ball way from the bat. Votes: 3

A brilliant idea without action is like Mark McGwire playing baseball without a bat. Votes: 3

I bought my son a bat for Christmas. On New Year's it flew away. Votes: 3

My one regret was that I never photographed the bat before we drank it. Votes: 3

I have no expectation of making a hit every time I come to bat, Votes: 3

You just listen to the ball and bat come together. They make an awful noise. Votes: 3

I'd swap everything I've done in my miserable little life to bat like Virender Sehwag Votes: 3

I don't make speeches. I just let my bat speak for me in the summertime. Votes: 3

If I'm playing well I'll get through a bat in three weeks. I batter them. Votes: 3

The way he's swinging the bat, he won't get a hit until the 20th century. Votes: 3

The American boy starts swinging the bat about as soon as he can lift one. Votes: 3

You will never score a home run until you swing the bat"Zach JensenChild of Aquarius Votes: 3

The baby bat Screamed out in fright, 'Turn on the dark, I'm afraid of the light. Votes: 3

I don't care where you are, but the fans only remember your last time at bat. Votes: 3

A failure becomes just one time at bat if you refuse to let it defeat you. Votes: 3

When I asked Imran Khan for an autograph he picked up his bat to hit me. Votes: 3

If I have to put anyone to bat for my life, it'll be Kallis or Dravid. Votes: 3

Next time you want to hit me hit me with a baseball bat or a crowbar! Votes: 3

Throw in the towel right off the bat. Women argue in ways that aren't rational to men. Votes: 3

I wish I had a rabbit in a hat with a bat and a six four impala! Votes: 3

He (Eric Davis) gets power from his bat speed.....it's like he has cork in his arms. Votes: 3

Perhaps not," said Will, who had ears like a bat's. "But I would make a radiant bride. Votes: 3

I think of myself as 'catching' the ball with my bat and letting the pitcher supply the power. Votes: 3

A man with a club [bat] is a law-maker, a man to be obeyed, but not necessarily conciliated. Votes: 3

The hardest thing to do in baseball is to hit a round baseball with a round bat, squarely. Votes: 3

The fans have been great with me. I think they appreciate that I don't take an at-bat off. Votes: 3

If a guy is taking his girl for granted, he really deserves a slap, with a baseball bat. Votes: 3

My daughter genuinely asked me to hand her the basketball bat. I might be failing as a father. Votes: 3

Jacques Rudolph at the moment is using the inside edge as much as the middle of the bat. Votes: 3

I never smile when I have a bat in my hands. That's when you've got to be serious. Votes: 3

The gap between bat and pad is so much that I would have driven a car through it... !! Votes: 3

If I see MS Dhoni coming to bat at number 4, I will be the happiest person on earth Votes: 3

Well, boys, it's a round ball and a round bat and you got to hit the ball square. Votes: 3

I need at least two months to try and figure out where the centre of the bat is. Votes: 3

I grew up on the softball field. Every day I would take my glove and my bat with me Votes: 3

My dream holiday would be a) a ticket to Amsterdam b) immunity from prosecution and c) a baseball bat. Votes: 3

You only have to bat 1.000 in two things-flying and heart transplants. Everything else, you can go four in five. Votes: 3

Yes, Severus does seem the type, doesn't he? So useful to have him swooping around like an overgrown bat. Votes: 3

What is it like to be a bat? What is it like for a bat to be a bat? Votes: 3

There are some people who might look better if you smacked them in the head with a baseball bat. Votes: 3

I grew up on the softball field. Every day I would take my glove and my bat with me. Votes: 3

Ah wonder if anybody this side of the Atlantic has ever bought a baseball bat with playing baseball in mind. Votes: 3

When you first assemble a group, it's not a team right off the bat. It's only a collection of individuals Votes: 3

Trust may be in short supply after years of disappointments. However, improvement could come in a bat of an eye! Votes: 3

I will leave this shining life of cricket very soon. This bat and ball won't save Shahid Afridi in Grave Votes: 3

Life keeps throwing me curve balls and I don't even own a bat. At least my dodging skills are improving. Votes: 3

My father gave me a bat for Christmas. The first time I tried to play with it, it flew away. Votes: 3

You can shake a dozen glove men out of a tree, but the bat separates the men from the boys. Votes: 3

If Trescothick had tried to get me off the field when batting well, I'd have hit him with my bat. Votes: 3

If I have a son and he decides to play cricket, I will want him to bat like Sachin Tendulkar. Votes: 3

There is no one correct way to bat, and so of course there is no one correct stance for it. Votes: 3

They give you a round bat and they throw you a round ball. And they tell you to hit it square. Votes: 3

Mothman flew away from town, like a giant bat, and then disappeared from sight behind a thicket of skeletal autumn trees. Votes: 3

In this lineup, anywhere I hit, I don't care. I always go out there and swing the bat the same way. Votes: 3

Let the pitcher move first, then, as he draws his arm back, you draw the bat back and you are ready. Votes: 3

No man with a conscience can just bat out illustrations. He's got to put all his talent and feeling into them! Votes: 3

You obviously want the results but you must do your job in every at-bat and deal with what every situation dictates." Votes: 3

There are certain tribes in the middle Sepik that eat raw bat. A certain kind of raw bat is a delicacy. Votes: 3

If you want to end darkness you cannot beat it with a baseball bat, you have to turn on a light. Votes: 3

The Olympics are great for notoriety right off the bat, but your body of work is what people remember you for. Votes: 3

You obviously want the results but you must do your job in every at-bat and deal with what every situation dictates. Votes: 3

Test cricket is bloody hard work, especially when you've got Sachin batting with what looks like a three metre wide bat. Votes: 3

I had no issues with lesbians, but I didn't swing the bat that way, and I kind of resented getting molested. Votes: 3

I learned to hit with a broomstick and a ball of tape and I could always get that bat on the ball. Votes: 3

The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball. Votes: 3

Your bat is your life. It's your weapon. You don't want to go into battle with anything that feels less than perfect Votes: 3

Your bat is your life. It's your weapon. You don't want to go into battle with anything that feels less than perfect. Votes: 3

All careers go up and down like friendships, like marriages, like anything else, and you can't bat a thousand all the time. Votes: 3

You have to stay fresh and blank in your mind when you go out to bat. You complicate things, and you're gone. Votes: 3

Twinkle, twinkle little bat How I wonder what you're at! Up above the world you fly, Like a tea-tray in the sky. Votes: 3

In the description of night in Macbeth, the beetle and the bat detract from the general idea of darkness - inspissated gloom. Votes: 3

I touched Roger's bat and held it to my heart. My bat will lie next to his. I'm damn proud of that. Votes: 3

The crack of the bat, the sound of baseballs thumping into gloves, the infield chatter are like birdsong to the baseball starved. Votes: 3

I always listen to music before I go out to bat. Any track, really, just whatever I feel like at the time. Votes: 3

Babe Ruth made a baseball fan of me. I used to go to Yankee Stadium just to see him come to bat. Votes: 3

Obviously, success breeds more confidence. And it's pretty easy to be confident if you're getting a hit almost every time at bat. Votes: 3

Kittens play with yarn, they bat it around. What they're really doing is saying, "I can't knit, get this away from me!" Votes: 3

With a sound like a bat hitting a watermelon, pirate fist connected with pirate jaw and a gold tooth bounced across the deck. Votes: 3

I love watching Virat Kohli bat. I love his aggression and serious passion that I used to have. He reminds me of myself, Votes: 3

His eyes are wild, psychotic slits that bat-dance in your soul looking for good things to crush or bad elements to identify with. Votes: 3

"Mach doch nicht immer dieselben Witze", baten die Leser den Satiriker, und der Satiriker bat die Leser: "Macht doch nicht immer dieselbe Wirklichkeit." Votes: 3

I was the worst hitter ever. I never even broke a bat until last year when I was backing out of the garage. Votes: 3

If you aim for parody right off the bat and it misses, no offense to the filmmakers, but it is Meet the Spartans. Votes: 3

I keep a lucky red rag in my pocket when I bat, which has been a good luck charm for a few years. Votes: 3

If I ever modelled for Calvin Klein I'd give myself to a flock of fans to beat me silly with a baseball bat. Votes: 3

The first question that comes out of everybody's mouth, 'Did you bite the head off a bat?' And I did, so, next." Votes: 3

If a pitcher sees you fiddling with the bat, he'll stall until your arms are tired before you even get a chance to hit. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Of course I like to watch myself bat. After every innings, match, series, I do watch my own videos whenever I get the time. Votes: 3

Don't change the channel when Rohit Sharma walks out to bat, because by the time you change it back, he"˜d be long gone!! Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

The bat is not a toy, it's a weapon. It gives me everything in life, which helps me to do everything on the field. Votes: 3

When you go to bat as many times as I do, you're bound to get a good average. That's why I keep my projects diversified. Votes: 3

Lawyers are like that famous vampire-bat, said to exist in Hungary, which seizes on a creature, and never lets go while there is blood left. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

I like to be a bowler because I can't bat properly. After 17 years of cricket I have got the opportunities and made the wickets fall. Votes: 3

When are the world's political parties going to get appropriate symbols: snake, louse, jackal, ... trash can, clown face, ... dollar bill with bat wings on it? Votes: 3

I don't know how I'm gonna pick up a bat again. I just need to be away for a bit and play with my dogs. Votes: 3

I won't be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat. Votes: 3

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 Votes: 3

Are you tall? Are you strong? How big are your hands? You must be honest with yourself or you will end up using the wrong bat. Votes: 3

I have an Alka-Seltzer bat. You know-plop, plop, fizz, fizz, when the pitcher sees me walking up there he says, 'Oh, what a relief it is'. Votes: 3

I got to thinking that poems were like people. Some people you got right off the bat. Some people you just didn't get--and never would get. Votes: 3

I am the batsman and the bat, / I am the bowler and the ball, / The umpire, the pavilion cat, / The roller, pitch, and stumps, and all. Votes: 3

What a childhood I had. Once on my birthday my ol' man gave me a bat. The first day I played with it, it flew away. Votes: 3

I am not yet born; O hear me. Let not the bloodsucking bat or the rat or the stoat or the club-footed ghoul come near me. Votes: 3

I could always hit. I learned to hit with a broomstick and a ball of tape and I could always get that bat on the ball. Votes: 3

You fool around with different pitches playing catch, but it's not the same when you've got to face some guy with a bat in his hand. Votes: 3

Any game could be my last, and any at bat could be my last. I'd hate to think it ended without me giving my best effort. Votes: 3

I'm still very critical of myself, but I've learned to deal with it. You know that every at-bat is important, but it's not life and death. Votes: 3

Part of [having uncommon sense] is being able to tune out folly, as opposed to recognizing wisdom. If you bat away many things, you don't clutter yourself. Votes: 3

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 Votes: 3

To Beatrice- My love flew like a butterfly Until death swooped down like a bat As the poet Emma Montana McElroy said: 'That's the end of that Votes: 3

I have thoroughly compromised your niece," Alex declared. "Will you plase insist that she marry me?" Caroline didn't bat an eyelash. "This", she announced, "is most peculiar. Votes: 3

When you play this game twenty years, go to bat ten-thousand times, and get three-thousand hits, do you know what that means? You've gone zero for seven-thousand. Votes: 3

I wasn't scared (during his first at-bat). I just told them (Mo Vaughn & Kevin Mitchell') to give me all that hockey equipment (forearm pad & shin guard respectively). Votes: 3

You surprise yourself on some balls off the bat. You don't think you have a chance to catch it. And then your natural ability just takes over. Votes: 3

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 Votes: 3

I miss the guys, and I miss playing baseball. Just being able to swing the bat, or run, or dive for a ball, or slide into second. Votes: 3

How do you combat a man with a firearm? You don't combat him with a golf club, baseball bat or a knife. You combat him with another firearm. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Baseball is very big with my people. It figures. It's the only way we can get to shake a bat at a white man without starting a riot. Votes: 3

I never cared who scored the goal, or which side won the silver cup. I never learned to bat or bowl; but I heard the curtain going up. Votes: 3

When you win the toss - bat. If you are in doubt, think about it, then bat. If you have very big doubts, consult a colleague then bat. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

I think the idea of having a game based on reality is compelling right off the bat because everyone has some experience with the subject of the game. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

We're all players and musicians and we sure all get along good. We just clicked right off the bat. We started playing and then we almost immediately started recording. Votes: 3

I am a lefty, though I bat right-handed... When I was a kid I pitched, played first, outfield and shortstop as well. Now it's mainly softball with some friends. Votes: 3

Baseball can be slow in many ways. The action starts with when the pitcher delivers the ball. But the action really starts when the crack of the bat happens. Votes: 3

I have a few friends that I think would go to bat for me no matter what. Flea is definitely one of them. Guy Oseary is one of them. Votes: 3

What the hell kind of man decides to dress up as a bat and run around the city? There's got to be something a little bit loose in there. Votes: 3

To survive, our minds must taste redwood, and agate, octopi, bat, and in the bat's mouth, insect. It's hard to think like a planet, but we've got to try. Votes: 3

The first time I picked up a bat in a professional game, I hit a ball hard left-handed, and my first home run was so effortless, it surprised me. Votes: 3

I'm starting to swing the bat now like I know I can. You can't really explain it. I'm just seeing the ball good and everything is going my way. Votes: 3

If a cricketer suddenly decided to go into a school and batter a lot of people to death with a cricket bat, are you going to ban cricket bats? Votes: 3

I hated to bat against Drysdale. After he hit you he'd come around, look at the bruise on your arm and say, 'Do you want me to sign it?' Votes: 3

I can bat in the morning, afternoon, evening, night, on ice, desert, wherever and whenever. It is almost nirvana for me. It takes me away from the stresses of life. Votes: 3

The Indian bowlers picked me for sledging when I was batting well. They called me school boy. But I was enjoying it and I had answered it with my bat, Votes: 3

When her boyfriend broke his leg, I knew it was my chance to ask her to dance. So I put down my baseball bat and approached her like Babe Ruth. Votes: 3

When I came up to bat with three men on and two outs in the ninth, I looked in the other team's dugout and they were already in street clothes. Votes: 3

I don't like to sound egotistical, but every time I stepped up to the plate with a bat in my hands, I couldn't help but feel sorry for the pitcher. Votes: 3

The practice of our democracy depends on a sense of, and knowledge of, history in the same way that playing in the World Series requires a bat and a ball. Votes: 3

Baseball just a came as simple as a ball and bat. Yet, as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. A sport, a business and sometimes almost even a religion. Votes: 3

Yes, I did bite the head off of a dove. Yes, I did bite the head off of a bat. It's a stupid thing to do, but I did it. Votes: 3

As a kid, I liked making up stories, and I wrote a story about a kangaroo and a bat with Christy Chang, and she went on to become a surgeon. Votes: 3

And I have a few friends that I think would go to bat for me no matter what. Flea is definitely one of them. Guy Oseary is one of them. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Some people enjoy taking a light stroll in the morning and that gives them relief and that sort of feeling. That is what I gain by practicing, by swinging the bat. Votes: 3

You planning top kill me with a Wiffle bat?" [Carson asked] "Yeah." "Why?" he asked. The bat was shaking in my tight grip. "Because I don't have my Minnie Mouse pillow. Votes: 3

The most fun I ever had in my life was hittin' a baseball. And the best sound I ever heard in my life was a ball hit with a bat. Powww! Votes: 3

I'll always be grateful for the dream season of 1986. In a corner of my mind I will stand forever with my bat cocked, waiting for the two-one pitch from Calvin Schiraldi. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

You're going to bat so many times during a season and it's not worth getting mad about. I still get frustrated, but I try not to let the other team know that. Votes: 3

I'd get me a bunch of bats and balls and sneak me a couple of umpires and learn them kids behind the Iron Curtain how to tote a bat and play baseball. Votes: 3

I've always said when I broke in I was an average player. I had an average arm, average speed and definitely an average bat. I am still average in all of those. Votes: 3

I'm not afraid to swing the bat. If they elect to pitch to me, I'm going to swing. I'm not as picky as Mr. Sheffield. I'll swing at something over my head. Votes: 3

Probably spending 12 years at boarding school - comedy became a survival gene. But I think some people are funny right off the bat, as soon as they can speak or be naughty. Votes: 3

When you've played this game for ten years and gone to bat seven-thousand times and gotten two-thousand hits do you know what that really means? It means you've gone zero for five-thousand. Votes: 3

The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying, 'Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses.' She's got a baseball bat and yelling, 'You want a piece of me?' Votes: 3

I would think I drive most hitting coaches crazy. During one single at-bat I used six different stances on six pitches. Oh yeah, I also struck out. So what do I know? Votes: 3

The sun was set; the night came on apace, And falling dews bewet around the place; The bat takes airy rounds on leathern wings, And the hoarse owl his woeful dirges sings. Votes: 3

Whenever you study composition you inevitably encounter Bach right off the bat. You can't get across the room without running into him and the other greats. Analyzing Bach absolutely influenced my jazz playing. Votes: 3

If there is one thing I know, it's that with every great achievement in our lives, there is an insecure idiot hiding around the corner waiting to take a baseball bat to it. Votes: 3

Bubba was the one person who wouldn't even bat an eyelash that Nick was talking to an "imaginary" friend. Heck, he'd probably bring one of his own out to play, too. ~Nick Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

If a dish doesn't turn out right, change the name and don't bat an eyelid. A fallen souffle is only a risen omelette. It depends on the self-confidence with which you present it. Votes: 3

You are recognized by your bat. If you are the best hitting shortstop out there, that's how you win a Gold Glove. That's the way it is. It shouldn't be-it's a defensive award. Votes: 3

In college, I had a crush on one of my professors. I used to bat my eyelashes and coo at him. He didn't respond at all, which made me like him even more. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

I've never fallen in love right off the bat. I get scared to say I love you too soon because it means so much. It means you're not seeing an end to things. Votes: 3

For a product to carry a health claim on its package, it must first have a package, so right off the bat it's more likely to be processed rather than a whole food. Votes: 3

To me playing third base and left field and moving all over the place, it doesn't bother me because I still have to grab that bat and hit no matter where I play. Votes: 3

Clearly you need a new team to go out to bat on your behalf; to fight for your rights and to report back to you personally and to the leadership of the IFP. Votes: 3

I grew up in the '60s, which was a creative time, so it wasn't that big of a stretch to go from a baseball bat to a guitar to a film camera. Votes: 3

In high school, I taught dance classes for 3-year-olds up to 16-year-olds, so between that and some bat mitzvah money, I saved up a pretty good nest egg to move to L.A. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Maybe because I didn't have a huge film career right off the bat, I've been able to create something different, which is so important to me. That's myself, my idea of who I am. Votes: 3

Phrases and images from the game filtered through his head... hitting the sweet spot, working the rosin bag, over the bat, going deep, in the hole, double header, baseball was a filthy, dirty sport! Votes: 3

Amazing strength, amazing power - he (Ron Swoboda) can grind the dust out of the bat. He will be great, super even wonderful. Now, if he can only learn to catch a fly ball. Votes: 3

Can I be cocky for a second? If I hit a home run 80 percent of the times, and you want to talk about the 20 times I miss swinging the bat, I'm okay with that. Votes: 3

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! Votes: 3

Sometimes when you cut your bed tracks right off the bat, you don't really know where the vocal is landing and where the background vocals are, and other loops and stuff that are going on. Votes: 3

One game, one pitch can change everything for a hitter. The way I like to approach it is that every at-bat is its own unique opportunity to go out there and do something really good. Votes: 3

I feel like, when I arrive at the hospital, I want a glass of whiskey, I want the epidural in my back and I want to get hit in the face with a baseball bat. Votes: 3

Hit a home run - put your head down, drop the bat, run around the bases, because the name on the front is more - a lot more important than the name on the back. Votes: 3

Out of ten swings at the bat, you get maybe seven strikeouts, two base hits, and if you are lucky, one home run. The base hits and the home runs pay for all the strikeouts Votes: 3

I didn't know if I still had it in me to be really dangerous, but I thought so. It's like knocking someone off a bike with a baseball bat; you never really lose the knack. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

No one hit home runs the way Babe did. They were something special. They were like homing pigeons. The ball would leave the bat, pause briefly, suddenly gain its bearings, then take off for the stands. Votes: 3

He (Jackie Robinson) was the greatest competitor I've ever seen. I've seen him beat a team with his bat, his ball, his glove, his feet and, in a game in Chicago one time, with his mouth. Votes: 3

If you're going to write an anthem for an old man who's up at political bat for the last time, give him a decent song. Send him off with something that creates some chills or something. Votes: 3

If you got a hit every third time that you went up to bat in the major leagues, you'd be the greatest hitter of all time. I think my average is a little better than that. Votes: 3

The majority of the time with two strikes I'll choke up on the bat a little bit to try to stay as short as possible. It doesn't always work out like that, but that's the goal. Votes: 3

Eye of newt, and toe of frog, Wool of bat, and tongue of dog, Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg, and owlet's wing, For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble. Votes: 3

Traditionally, baseball punishes preening. In a society increasingly tolerant of exhibitionism, it is splendid when a hitter is knocked down because in his last at bat he lingered at the plate to admire his home run. Votes: 3

What can I do, I asked myself, that is so spectacular that no one will be able to say he had seen it before? The answer was perfectly obvious. I would send a midget up to bat. Votes: 3

I like to think of the world's greatest athlete coming up to bat against me - Tiger Woods, Wayne Gretzky, I don't care who it is - and I'm looking at him thinking, you have no chance. Votes: 3

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 Votes: 3

Sometimes you've got to be a little flexible. For the most part, it's hard to get players to look at the big picture also. I understand that. They're looking at their next start or their next at-bat. Votes: 3

Hitting. That's what I enjoy most. Realistically, it's probably the hardest thing to do in all of sport. Think about it. You've got a round ball, a round bat, and the object is to hit it square. Votes: 3

There are plenty of things you can do to help animals! The best advice that I can give right off the bat is not to get overwhelmed and feel bad when you read about all the issues. Votes: 3

No one hit home runs the way Babe (Ruth) did. They were something special. They were like homing pigeons. The ball would leave the bat, pause briefly, suddenly gain its bearings, then take off for the stands. Votes: 3

They took a baseball bat and whacked open his head. Mummy Boy fell to the ground; he finally was dead. Inside of his head were no candy or prizes, just a few stray beetles of various sizes. Votes: 3

One of the things that attracted me to Barack [Obama] was his emotional honesty. Right off the bat he said what he felt. There are no games with him - he is who he appears to be. Votes: 3

So often the woman forgets her own greatness and she goes a little bat sh-- crazy sometimes. So its up to the other half to love that person back into the person we know them to be. Votes: 3

There cannot be found in the animal kingdom a bat, or any other creature, so blind in its own range of circumstance and connection, as the greater majority of human beings are in the bosoms of their families Votes: 3

There cannot be found in the animal kingdom a bat, or any other creature, so blind in its own range of circumstance and connection, as the greater majority of human beings are in the bosoms of their families. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Decide while you're young to keep the commandments of God, and you won't have to think fast, because before temptation even steps up to the bat, you'll have made your decision. You were smart enough to think first. Votes: 3

To be honest, I find most politicians very untrustworthy. When I listen to them talking - or rather, lying - I just feel there are very few politicians with integrity, so I never know who to bat for. Votes: 3

(At the back of the cave, Phoebe placed her hand against one of the stones where a spring release opened an elevator door. Chris gave an over exaggerated gape.) Holy Hand Grenade, Batman, it's a bat cave. (Chris) Votes: 3

In many ways, Big Brother is the present day equivalent of a 1980s Club 18-30 Holiday - flirting, sunbathing, silly little organised games, and lots of people you'd like to remove from the genepool with a cricket bat. Votes: 3

It was time to confront the old bat with the damage she'd caused this time. Then, he promised himself, he'd strangle her for meddling in affairs that were none of her business, and kidnapping a goddamn innocent fairy. Votes: 3

(Doc) Cramer told me I was hitting too much off the front foot and that I wasn't using the right kind of bat. I had been using a long, skinny stick and Cramer got me a thicker one. Votes: 3

I've felt that if I just used initials nobody would know whether I was a man or a woman, a dog or a tiger. I could hide from view, like a bat on the underside of a branch. Votes: 3

The best compliment for me is when someone says they'll pay to watch me play, And I can say that I'll pay to watch MS Dhoni bat. MS is not the next Gilchrist. He's the first MS Dhoni Votes: 3

People give themselves to you, in their talking, and in other ways, if you are quiet and patient and let them, and not in such a damned rush to give yourself to them you go bat-blind and deaf. Votes: 3

When I walk into bat, I should know that 'Yes, I've prepared to the best of my ability. I couldn't have done anything better.' That is when I feel that I am ready to go out and play. Votes: 3

The one thing that struck me right off the bat was what Donald Trump said about Benghazi.There is this view out there that [Hillary Clinton] lied about what caused the attack, that she said it was the video. Votes: 3

I don't bat an eye at stuff like that. I've had my share of wins. If I worried about the games I should have won, it would probably drive me crazy. It was a fun game to pitch in. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Actually I'd always thought he sat in the library with a slim volume of metaphysical poetry until the commissioner called him on the bat phone and summoned him into action. Holy paranormal activity, Nightingale - to the Jag mobile. Votes: 3

Guns do not make you a killer. I think killing makes you a killer. You can kill someone with a baseball bat or a car, but no one is trying to ban you from driving to the ball game. Votes: 3

I was generally pro-bat, except when I was trekking through the dark trying not to think about the dire fate of every horror movie character stupid enough to go into the dark with a flashlight and check the fuses. Votes: 3

During my 18 years I came to bat almost 10,000 times. I struck out about 1,700 times and walked maybe 1,800 times. You figure a ballplayer will average about 500 at bats a season. That means I played seven years without ever hitting the ball. Votes: 3

Alright, macho babe boy, I'm not some little ditz to bat my eyelashes at the buff stud in black leather. Don't try your he-man tactics with me. I'll have you know, in my office, I'm known as the ball-breaker. (Amanda) Votes: 3

The words given voice inside the mind are not always clear, however; they can be gentle and elliptical, what the prophets call the bat qol, the daughter of the voice of God, she who speaks in whispers and half-seen images. Votes: 3

Half the things I've done are wrong, mistakes [unintelligible]. The moratorium on pot and LSD a year ago is ridiculous. I shouldn't have done that. I make a blunder at least one out of two times I come to bat. Votes: 3

I would love to be on a show where I'm allowed to play a character that you're not suspicious of, from the get-go, and who's someone that you can just relax with, take in and like, right off the bat. Votes: 3

Mein Bruder bat die Vögel um Verzeihung. Das scheint sinnlos, und doch hatte er recht; denn alles ist wie ein Ozean, alles fließt und grenzt aneinander; rührst du an ein Ende der Welt, so zuckt es am anderen. Votes: 3

Yes, I was in that game where George Brett hit that home run. Billy saw there was too much pine tar on the bat and he went to the umpire, the next thing we knew they were fighting about it. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

I've heard there are troubles of more than one kind; some come from ahead, and some come from behind. But I've brought a big bat. I'm all ready, you see; now my troubles are going to have troubles with me! Votes: 3

Jack! "Where have you been,you miserable little creep?" He raised his eyebrows,a look of mock hurt on his face."This is the thanks I get?" "Give me that bat and I'll show you how grateful I am, coward! Votes: 3

A baseball bat could not have hit me harder than that smile did. I was sixteen years old. In that time, how many thousands of smiles had been aimed at me? so why did this one feel like the first? Votes: 3

I studied Jeet Kune Do and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. On element of Jeet Kune Do is that I had several of years of practice with the kali stick - a stick with a size and length similar to a baseball bat. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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? Votes: 3

I loved Veronica right off the bat. She was so strong and I think it is so important because there are so few shows that portray women, especially young women, as being strong and being able to stand up for themselves. Votes: 3

I like wearing good clothes. Some of my friends who are into making clothes told me since I was already playing with my own brand of bat sticker, I should make a foray in fashion. The idea has worked very well. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

You really want to know what being an X-Man feels like? Just be a smart bookish boy of color in a contemporary U.S. ghetto. Mamma mia! Like having bat wings or a pair of tentacles growing out of your chest. Votes: 3

I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me! Votes: 3

Before breaking into music, I had various jobs: forklift driver, driving a courier. But I was forced into working rather than doing it off my own bat because that was my dad's way: you got a job and paid your way. Votes: 3

No one can ever see the ball hit the bat because it's physically impossible to focus your eyes that way. However, when I hit the ball especially hard, I could smell the leather start to burn as it struck the wooden bat. Votes: 3

And, you know, you try and preach to them there's more to this game than just walking up to home plate, swinging the bat, fielding a ground ball. There's some dedication in it, some love you've got to put into this work. Votes: 3

Like the periwig and the bowler bat, the plus-four and the bow-tie, the blazer is on the way out, and those who persist in wearing it do so with a smattering of self-consciousness, a touch of obstinacy, even a pinch of camp. Votes: 3

I think it's important to see that, as an audience member, because a lot of times you pass judgement on people, right off the bat, depending on whatever they're involved in or the people they surround themselves with, or something like that. Votes: 3

Er pochte an manche Herzenstür, / und drinnen rief's: Herein! / Er bat um einen Bissen Brot, / man gab ihm einen Stein. / Und so bekam er Stein auf Stein. / Er trug sie heimatwärts / und baute sich ein Mauerwerk / rings um sein eignes Herz. Votes: 3

Spooky things happen in houses densely occupied by adolescent boys. When I checked out a four-inch dent in the living room ceilingone afternoon, even the kid still holding the baseball bat looked genuinely baffled about how he possibly could have done it. Votes: 3

Hitting a baseball well, as in cricket, is a very rare skill. One of most difficult things to do in the world to do, hitting a ball coming at you at ninety miles an hour with a round bat. Wonderful to watch. Votes: 3

I am terminally sentimental about graduations. They are more individual than weddings, more conscious than christenings, or bar mitzvahs or bat mitzvahs. They are almost as much a step into the unknown as funerals-though I assure you, there is life after graduation. Votes: 3

A lot of the lads have a bat for the nets, a bat for facing the bowling machine and a separate bat for the match. I'll just crack on with a bat until it breaks - then crack on with another one. Votes: 3

You take all the offensive linemen and put them in a burlap bag, and then you take a baseball bat and beat on the bag. You’re sacking them. You’re bagging them. And that’s what you’re doing with a quarterback. Votes: 3

For me, fielding is everything - it is a passion that comes from within. You can get a bad ball while you bat, and your bowling may not always be up there, but you are completely in control of how well you field. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

The car suddenly veered off the road and we came to a sliding halt in the gravel. I was hurled against the dashboard. My attorney was slumped over the wheel. "What's wrong?" I yelled. "We can't stop here. This is bat country! Votes: 3

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? Votes: 3

There were a bunch of things we really liked right off the bat about a police precinct. We loved how instantly relatable it was. We loved how little exposition was required to tell people who these guys were and what they were doing. Votes: 3

I never smile when I have a bat in my hands. That's when you've got to be serious. When I get out on the field, nothing's a joke to me. I don't feel like I should walk around with a smile on my face. Votes: 3

In lieu of Tasers, you'll have to hit me. Hard as you can. Then maybe some kind of fight-or-flight response will kick in and I'll turn into a bat to get away from you.Fight or flight.Yes.Only half of that is flight. Votes: 3

I don't understand the whole dating thing. I know right off the bat if I'm interested in someone, and I don't want them to waste their money on me and take me out to eat if I know I'm not interested in that person. Votes: 3

Girls bat their eyelashes and act like they don't know anything in front of guys they like, or give a little bit of eye contact, but not too much, or a bit of touching. Or being coy. Sure, I do a bit of that. Votes: 3

No perfume. Because I want to know how you smell - right off the bat. Don't mask it up. I need to know how you smell because I need to know how we connect. A smell is a big thing. Pheromones. Don't cover that. Votes: 3

If somebody is really trying to take your head off with a baseball bat - I don't know how long you're supposed to stand there and turn the other cheek, so he or she can get a better angle at taking your head off. Votes: 3

What can be more curious than that the hand of a man, formed for grasping, that of a mole for digging, the leg of the horse, the paddle of the porpoise, and the wing of the bat, should all be constructed on the same pattern? Votes: 3

Mom stood over the still thrashing ghost with the bat and brought it down on its head again and again. "Leave him alone, leave my family alone!" she screamed. "We are not going to die in a stupid gas station in the middle of nowhere! Votes: 3

I think these are the most difficult games to win, just every at-bat, every pitch, it seemed like it was important. The at-bats that the Nationals had the entire series, it just felt like it was a constant 2-2, foul off three pitches, seven-pitch at-bats. Votes: 3

People who grew up watching Disney films like myself, there are films that are certain benchmarks in my childhood. 'The Little Mermaid' was the first movie I remember seeing. 'Beauty And The Beast,' 'Aladdin,' those are three I remember right off the bat. Votes: 3

The biggest thing that I came across, right off the bat, was that you can't shoot this like a regular movie with multiple takes. You have to, because it's such a protracted process, break it down to the frame and pretty much get one shot. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

We found that just by the way we stood, affected women dramatically, and if you look at our show, you'll see that we always stood with our legs open our fists on hips and our bat bulges forward, which had a profound effect on women! Votes: 3

There's nobody on my ball club that doesn't go from first to third on a base hit, or from second to home. Every time you steal a base, you're taking a gamble on getting thrown out, and taking the bat out of the hitter's hand. Votes: 3

I look in the mirror and I don't see a sex symbol. I just see a guy who looks like he's been beaten with a baseball bat. I mean, is this the face of a sex symbol? They say that because I work in the movies. Votes: 3

A lot of hitters stay away from the plate, some are close up, some are forward, some are back. The thing about hitting is this: You have to know the strike zone. That's the most important thing. Hit strikes and put the bat on the ball. Votes: 3

The Golf Hall of Fame is full of players with unusual looking swings. Some of the prettiest swings you've ever seen in your life are made on the far end of the public driving range by guys who couldn't break an egg with a baseball bat. Votes: 3

I'm from Boston, and in Boston, you are born with a baseball bat in your hand. And actually, most of the bats in Massachusetts are used off the field instead of on the field, and we all had baseball bats in our cars in high school. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Most great writers suffer and have no idea how good they are. Most bad writers are very confident. Be willing to be a child and be the Lilliputian in the world of Gulliver, the bat girl in Yankee Stadium. That's a more fruitful way to be. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

It's difficult to build services that are supposed to scale to, you know, 30, 50, 100 million users right off the bat because they got to be kind of tailored down; by definition, they have to be a little bit generic to speak to that large of an audience. Votes: 3

Mass-market movies have become about one thing. They kind of declare themselves right off the bat. . . . But when I go to see (a film), I want to be surprised. I want to see something I never expected. And when you get that, it should be celebrated. Votes: 3

It's always good to bat at the top, where you get more opportunities, but sometimes crucial 30s and 40s can be very helpful for the team. Ultimately it is a team sport. Personal records don't matter much if your team ends up on the losing side. Votes: 3

I played softball and basketball growing up. I really wanted to play football but both parents said no. I was mad for a second, then got over it. Now, just because I'm tall doesn't mean I can play basketball. I was waaaaay better at swinging a bat. Votes: 3

We used to look at each other and say, 'We play the same game with the same rules, the same bat, the same ball, the same field. What the hell does color have to do with it? You don't play with color. You play with talent.' Votes: 3

It was probably easier in the old days when the bad guys rode into town wearing black capes or whatever bad guys wore and the milk cows were ownded by honest people. Right off the bat, you'd know who you were dealing with. Now everybody dresses alike. Votes: 3

Don't treat your heart like an action figure wrapped in plastic and never used. And don't try to give me that nerd argument that your heart is a 'Batman' with a limited-edition silver bat-erang and therefore if it stays in its original packing it increases in value. Votes: 3

I try to walk like Christ in my life. If I strike out, I don't curse, or throw my bat or hit things back in the dugout, I try to quietly just put my helmet back. I may be very upset but I try to control myself. Votes: 3

One thing I can say right off the bat is that creating great editorial is a huge challenge, and you can't help but go through the process and not appreciate how valuable this skill is, and how much I admire the people who do this every day. Votes: 3

Yeah we're not together anymore. She has got - she has got a new boyfriend now. They just moved into together. And I've heard rumors that he is abusive, which makes you want to go over there with a baseball bat. And then blame it on her boyfriend. Votes: 3

I remember facing him on opening day in 1987. It was Oakland at the Minnesota Twins, the first time I got him out on a breaking ball down-and-in and next at bat he hit the same pitch for a home run. I was telling my kids that story yesterday. Votes: 3

There walked warlocks in all their bat-winged, cat-eyed glory, and here, as they swung out over the river, she saw the darting flash of multicolored tails under the silvery skin of the water, the shimmer of long, pearl-strewn hair, and heard the high, rippling laughter of the mermaids. Votes: 3

When I am at home, I never go near the synagogue unless, say, there is a bar or bat mitzvah involving the children of friends. But when I am traveling, in a country where Jewish life is scarce or endangered, I often make a visit to the shul. Votes: 3

I'm a succubus." He shook his head. "No, you aren't." "Yes, I am." "You aren't." I was a bit surprised to be having this conversation. "I am too." "No. Succubi are flame-eyed and bat-winged. Everyone knows that. They don't wear jeans and sweaters. Votes: 3

He had a passion for cricket right from his childhood and liked nothing else but playing with the bat and the ball. I wanted him to study hard and get into a government service. But, he wanted to do something in cricket and earn a name for himself. Votes: 3

Part of that, I think, is being able to tune out folly, as distinguished from recognizing wisdom. You've got whole categories of things you just bat away so your brain isn't cluttered with them. That way, you're better able to pick up a few sensible things to do. Votes: 3

You have to respect your parents. They are giving you an at-bat. If you're an entrepreneur and go into the family business, you want to grow fast. Patience is important. But respect the other party... My dad and I pulled it off because we really respect each other. Votes: 3

When I started in professional baseball, I had what you might call a rude awakening. See this scar right next to my left ear? That's where the pitcher hit me the very first time I came to bat as a pro. I was out cold for about 10 minutes. Votes: 3

Star Wars is adolescent nonsense; Close Encounters is obscurist drivel; "˜Star Trek' can turn your brains into puree of bat guano; and the greatest science fiction series of all time is Doctor Who! And I'll take you all on, one-by-one or all in a bunch to back it up! Votes: 3

Almost nothing worthwhile is easy, and it's hard to just jump in and be good at something difficult right off the bat... The only reliable way to succeed at anything is to actually do it, repeatedly, with concentrated effort. True for individuals, and true for organizations. Athletes, artists, businesses. Votes: 3

Back up shall we? When my brother, the crazy chicken warrior, turned into a falcon and went up the pyramid's chimney with his new friend, the fruit bat, he left me playing nurse to two very wounded people"”which I didn't appreciate, and which I wasn't particularly good at. Votes: 3

I'm aware of how pop culture really infiltrates your expectations in a way that even if you think you're savvy about pop culture, it's so hard not to have these expectations of what a relationship should be. So I constantly feel like I have to bat those expectations down. Votes: 3

You can't judge a man by watching him live. . . . I personally watched Babe Ruth at bat three times, and he struck out every time. But at the very time that I was watching him strike out, the record said that he was the greatest home-run king who ever lived. Votes: 3

It was always fun for me, I loved baseball so darn much. By the hours I practiced, you'd have to say I was working a lot of hours, but it was pretty near tireless fun for me. I'd rather swing a bat than do anything else in the world. Votes: 3

I've been on 'Criminal Minds' twice! On the first show, a boy brought kids out to the woods and was beating them with a baseball bat, but I got away. Then they brought Tracy, my character, back - as a kidnapped girl. They saved me two times! Tracy lived! Votes: 3

I had a bat mitzvah, was confirmed, went to Jewish summer camp, I go to temple for the High Holy Days. I think, like most people in their early 20s, I kind of strayed away from it. I think once I have a family I'll be back into it. Votes: 3

I had a bat mitzvah, was confirmed, went to Jewish summer camp, I go to temple for the High Holy Days. I think, like most people in their early 20s, I kind of strayed away from it. I think once I have a family I'll be back into it Votes: 3

Logan?Yes? I pulled my clothes back on even though the fabric stuck to my wounds. So much for trying to keep them clean.How did you know it wasn't really me?Are you kidding? Your eyeballs could be on fire and you wouldn't bat your lashes at me like that. Votes: 3

I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice. Votes: 2

You can never have a thousand percent batting average on jokes - it's just never going to happen. Votes: 2

Kathy Bates is sexy. It's partly because of her talent, but she's got a great face, and a great laugh. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

I faced odds when glaucoma took the bat out of my hands. But I didn't give in or feel sorry for myself. I've said it before, and I'll say it again: 'It may be cloudy in my right eye, but the sun is shining very brightly in my left eye.' Votes: 1

Well, the studios don't really want to take those risks right off the bat. They'll take the risk after they've seen the finished product and say oh yeah we want that. This is a great film but they are hesitant to take the risk when you just see it on paper. Votes: 1

Some kinds of animals burrow in the ground; others do not. Some animals are nocturnal, as the owl and the bat; others use the hours of daylight. There are tame animals and wild animals. Man and the mule are always tame; the leopard and the wolf are invariably wild, and others, as the elephant, are easily tamed. Votes: 1

The key is just to ignore the pain, because physical comedy only works if you see someone get hurt and they aren't actually hurt. If someone gets hit in the face with a bat, falls down, and gets back up, it's funny. If they stay down and their jaw is wired shut in the next scene, it's really tragic and weird. You have to pretend it doesn't hurt. Votes: 1

Hand me down the shark repellent Bat-Spray! Votes: 0

I think 'Bat Out Of Hell' will probably last forever. Votes: 0

I resolve not to drink liquids before donning the Bat-suit. Votes: 0

I dont know about happily ever after… but I know about happily, Weetzie Bat thought.. Votes: 0

I'll pay to watch MS Dhoni Bat. Dhoni is not the next Gilchrist. He's the first MS Dhoni. Votes: 0

A Bat meeting any one running away, signifies an evasion: for although she have no wings, yet she flies. Votes: 0

Bowl better, Bat better, Catch better, communicate better... Just bloody play better.... I am now available for Selection of Australia..!!!!! Votes: 0

Bat, pigeon, ravens - I don't care about distinctions right now. Any fluttery, flappy thing is not cool with me. Votes: 0

Omygod, I haven't got years. I'll have to hide in the Bat Cave." "Once you go to the Bat Cave it's forever, babe." Eeek. Votes: 0

The town I grew up in was at least fifty percent Jewish, so every weekend in the 7th grade, we went to Bar and Bat Mitzvahs. Votes: 0

A School Library is Like the Bat Cave: it's a safe fortress in a chaotic world, a source of knowledge and the lair of a superhero. Votes: 0

When I wasn't working on Broadway, I worked in a Bat Mitzvah dress shop and was the Cinderella of the shop - always cleaning and vacuuming! Votes: 0

The Bat that flits at close of Eve Has left the Brain that won't believe. The Owl that calls upon the Night Speaks the Unbeliever's fright. Votes: 0

Ever since I was a little girl, I loved to make things. I always made dresses for my Barbie dolls. When I was 13, I designed my Bat Mitzvah dress. Votes: 0

But doesn't add something to what has come before; but takes something away. At its most daring, it can feel like a Bat Turn, a 180-degree spin int the Batmobile. Make that a But Turn. Votes: 0

Yeah, size is no guarantee of power," said George. "Look at Ginny." "What d'you mean?" said Harry. "You've never been on the receiving end of one of her Bat-Bogey Hexes, have you? Votes: 0