Batting Quotes:

Virat Kohli is an ODI batting legend

- Viv Richards

topic: Legends, Batting

If you're batting and you go off on one it can't really help you.

- Andrew Flintoff

source: Source: www.theguardian.com

topic: Helping, Batting, Ifs

What I seek is the highest possible batting average.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

source: Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

topic: Average, Highest, Batting

How can you think and hit at the same time?

- Yogi Berra

topic: Sports, Yoga, Thinking, Inspirational Baseball, Batting

I have to learn from Sehwag how to play in the nervous 90's

- Sachin Tendulkar

topic: Play, Nervous, Batting, Cricketers

They throw the ball, I hit it. They hit the ball, I catch it.

- Willie Mays

topic: Sports, Inspirational Sports, Balls, Batting, Baseball Pitching

On a train from Shimla to Delhi, there was a halt in one of the stations. The train stopped by for few minutes as usual. Sachin was nearing century, batting on 98. The passengers, railway officials, everyone on the train waited for Sachin to complete the century. This Genius can stop time in India!

- Peter Roebuck

topic: Usual, India, Genius, Batting, Stop Time

I like hitting fourth and I like the good batting average. But what I do every day behind the plate is a lot more important because it touches so many more people and so many more aspects of the game.

- Thurman Munson

source: "The House That Thurman Munson Built" by Michael Paterniti, www.esquire.com. August 3, 2013.

topic: Average, Games, People, Batting

I had to remind Gary Kristen often that he was in the covers to field against Sachin not to applaud him

- Hansie Cronje

topic: Fields, Gary, Batting, Reminding

My batting average has been good, so people ask how much luck is involved. I tell them when I work 14 hours a day, 7 days a week, I get lucky.

- Armand Hammer

topic: Business, Average, People, Batting

The real debate isn't over National League MVP, but over which of Barry Bonds' seasons should be considered his finest. There's 2001, when he hit his record seventy-three home runs. There's 2002, when he hit .370 and won his first batting title. And now there's 2004, when the San Francisco Giants slugger is preparing to shatter his season record for on-base percentage, hitting for nearly as high an average as Ichiro and missing fewer pitches than ever.

- Ken Rosenthal

topic: Running, Real, Home, Batting, Seventies

I rarely hit home runs in batting practice, and usually when I do feel that good, I'll have a bad game.

- Todd Helton

topic: Running, Home, Practice, Batting, Bad Games

I like to score and drive in runs more than pay attention to batting average.

- Alex Rodriguez

topic: Running, Average, Attention, Batting

Pitching always beats batting — and vice-versa.

- Yogi Berra

topic: Vices, Pitching, Beats, Batting

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

- Richie Ashburn

topic: Slumps, Littles, Bed, Batting

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

topic: Thinking, Style, Never Change, Batting

I name (Honus) Wagner first on my list, not only because he was a great batting champion and base-runner, and also baseball's foremost shortstop, but because Honus (Wagner) could have been first at any other position, with the possible exception of pitcher. In all my career, I never saw such a versatile player.

- John McGraw

topic: Baseball, Player, Names, Batting, Shortstops

I'm still batting away on my politics for the Labour Party. I'm much further to the left of them than I used to be, but that's because they've moved, not me.

- Billy Bragg

topic: Party, Used, Stills, Batting, Labour Party

I don't know about Cricket but still I watch Cricket to see Sachin play..Not because I love his play, its because I want to know the reason why my country's production goes down by 5 percent when he is in batting

- Barack Obama

topic: Country, Play, Watches, Batting

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

- Michael Hussey

source: "Sachin Tendulkar's 'three metre wide bat' makes Test cricket tough: Michael Hussey". www.dnaindia.com. October 19, 2010.

topic: Hard Work, Three, Looks, Batting

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

- Dontrelle Willis

topic: Nervous, Batting

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,

- Mushfiqur Rahim

topic: School, Boys, Bats, Batting, Bowlers

If you are anything like me you'll have to fight tooth-and-nail to stay in the game (evangelism). Because although the home runs have been invigorating, my batting average over the years is abysmally low.

- Bill Hybels

topic: Running, Home, Fighting, Batting, Home Run

How different South Africa’s cricketing achievements, and indeed the future of the country itself, might have been if racism had not denied Frank Roro the opportunity of batting with Bruce Mitchell in the Lord’s sunshine.

- Richard Lloyd

topic: Country, Sunshine, Opportunity, Batting

Statistics are the lifeblood of baseball. In no other sport are so many available and studied so assiduously by participants and fans. Much of the game's appeal, as a conversation piece, lies in the opportunity the fan gets to back up opinions and arguments with convincing figures, and it is entirely possible that more American boys have mastered long division by dealing with batting averages than in any other way.

- Leonard Koppett

topic: Sports, Baseball, Lying, Batting

I feel that I'm in on the ground floor of something that human beings will be concentrating on for the next 1,000 years-if we don't destroy ourselves in the meantime. It's possible that 50 years from now we're going to end up out of this solar system, batting around the universe, at least within our galaxy, investigating other stars and other systems.

- Deke Slayton

topic: Stars, Future, Years, Batting, Investigating

You throw batting practice, you warm up pitchers, you sit and cheer. You do whatever you have to do to stay on the team.

- Bob Uecker

topic: Cheer, Team, Practice, Batting, Batting Practice

Let's face it, making movies is all risk. Most of the time, batting average-wise, the reward does not outweigh the risk.

- John Slattery

topic: Wise, Average, Risk, Batting

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

- Paul Feig

topic: Average, Thousand, Jokes, Batting

My desires are simply I love to teach, I love to be in uniform, I love to throw batting practice, I love to be with the kids.

- Gary Carter

topic: Kids, Practice, Desire, Batting, Batting Practice

I've been taking batting practice in my barn where nobody can see me, so I may be better than anyone thinks.

- Garth Brooks

topic: Thinking, Practice, Barns, Batting, Batting Practice

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

- Casey Stengel

topic: Baseball, Practice, Dangerous, Inspirational Baseball, Batting

Mr. Jamrach led me through the lobby and into the menagerie. The first was a parrot room, a fearsome screaming place of mad round eyes, crimson breasts that beat against bars, wings that flapped against their neighbours, blood red, royal blue, gypsy yellow, grass green. The birds were crammed along perches. Macaws hung upside down here and there, batting their white eyes, and small green parrots flittered above our heads in drifts. A hot of cockatoos looked down from on high over the shrill madness, high crested, creamy breasted. The screeching was like laughter in hell.

- Carol Birch

topic: Laughter, Eye, Yellow, Batting, Menagerie

Once when the Yankee's Lou Pinella was batting he questioned a Palermo strike call. Pinella demanded, "Where was that pitch at?" Palermo told him that a man wearing Yankee pinstripes in front of 30,000 people should not end a sentence with a preposition. So Pinella, no dummy, said, "OK, where was that pitch at, asshole?"

- George Will

topic: Men, Yankees, Umpires, Batting, Prepositions

Most institutional investors feel compelled to swing at almost every pitch and forgo batting selectivity for frequency.

- Seth Klarman

topic: Swings, Feels, Investors, Batting

On the top of the batting list we have pinned our hopes on the Dilshan-Thirima nne combination as they have been putting the runs on the board whenever they have been entrusted with the opening slot.

- Sanath Jayasuriya

topic: Running, Lists, Boards, Batting

It would be useless for any player to attempt to explain successful batting.

- Tris Speaker

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Successful, Player, Would Be, Batting, Tris

I remember one time I'm batting against the Dodgers in Milwaukee. They lead, 2 - 1, it's the bottom of the ninth, bases loaded, two out and the pitcher has a full count on me. I look over to the Dodger dugout and they're all in street clothes.

- Bob Uecker

topic: Two, Clothes, Looks, Milwaukee, Batting

Imagine if you had baseball cards that showed all the performance stats for your people: batting averages, home runs, errors, ERAs, win/loss records. You could see what they did well and poorly and call on the right people to play the right positions in a very transparent way.

- Ray Dalio

source: "Ray Dalio's Bridgewater Hedge Fund Has A Brand New iPad App" by Julia La Roche, www.businessinsider.com. June 14, 2012.

topic: Running, Baseball, Home, Batting, Home Run

I had a .200 lifetime batting average in the major leagues, which tied me with another sports great averaging 200 or better for a ten-year period: Don Carter, one of our top bowlers.

- Bob Uecker

topic: Sports, Average, Years, Batting

Women can accept the fact that a man is a rotter, a swindler, a drug taker, a confirmed liar, and a general swine, without batting an eyelash, and without its impairing their affection for the brute in the least. Women are wonderful realists.

- Agatha Christie

source: Agatha Christie (1951). “Dame Agatha abroad”

topic: Liars, Men, Eyelashes, Swine, Batting

I've learned that getting what you want gives you a pretty high batting average, and leaves you plenty to struggle for.

- Loretta Young

topic: Struggle, Average, Giving, Batting

Many people have their reputations as reporters and analysts because they are on television, batting around conventional wisdom. A lot of these people have never reported a story.

- Bob Woodward

topic: Wisdom, People, Stories, Batting, Conventional Wisdom

The greatest competitor was Bob Gibson. He worked so fast out there and he always had the hood up. He always wanted to close his own deal. He never talked to you because he was battling so hard. I sure as hell don't miss batting against him, but I miss him in the game.

- Pete Rose

topic: Missing You, Sports, Games, Batting

Campaign boot camp started as an opportunity to work in a grassroots way with people who were running for Congress. Colleagues on the Democratic National Committee were batting around different possibilities. I said, 'We should have boot camps.'

- Christine Pelosi

source: "Gun lobby targets Gore, Democrats" by Wolf Blitzer, Brian Cabell, www.cnn.com. May 23, 2000.

topic: Running, Opportunity, People, Batting, Boot Camp

We have to judge politicians by their cumulative score. In one innings they make a great catch, in another they drop the ball. In one they score a home run, in another they strike out. But it is their cumulative batting average that we are interested in.

- Jesse Jackson

source: "Jesse Jackson: Power, politics and the preacher man". Interview with Gary Younge, www.theguardian.com. April 17, 1999.

topic: Running, Home, Average, Batting

I spent twenty-two seasons playing professional baseball. Naturally, success in that field is measured by batting averages, number of home runs and RBIs, fielding averages, ERAs and other statistics. Fame, notoriety and the bright lights fade quickly. To me, true success in life would be to develop both physically and spiritually to our fullest and to endure to the end!

- Harmon Killebrew

topic: Running, Baseball, Home, Notoriety, Batting

When the leaves turn brown, I'll be wearing the batting crown

- Dave Parker

topic: Crowns, Brown, Turns, Batting

Teams can't prepare for me in batting practice. They can't find anyone who throws as slow as I do.

- Dave LaPoint

topic: Team, Practice, Batting, Batting Practice

Commit all your crimes when Sachin is batting. They will go unnoticed because even the Lord is watching.

- Sachin Tendulkar

topic: Crime, Lord, Unnoticed, Batting

Sometimes I need to look at the scoreboard to figure out whether I'm batting hundred-plus or whether I am on zero.

- Sachin Tendulkar

topic: Zero, Needs, Looks, Batting, Scoreboard