Striking Out Quotes:

Life is for the living. Don't let the fear of striking out let you from keep you from playing the game.

- Laurie Halse Anderson

topic: Games, Life Is, Striking Out

Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back.

- Babe Ruth

topic: Success, Baseball, Crazy, Softball Team, Inspirational Baseball

As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher's mound. It was as if I'd been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy.

- Babe Ruth

topic: Relationship, Sports, Baseball, Striking Out

Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.

- Hilary Duff

topic: Leadership, Sports, I Hate You, Softball Team, Inspirational Baseball

It's tough to strike out. Believe me. I hate striking out. It's no fun. It's embarrassing. But there really isn't anything I can do. It's just a part of my game.

- Jim Thome

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

topic: Fun, Hate, Believe, Striking Out

There is always an inertia to be overcome in striking out a new line of conduct – not more in ourselves, it seems, than in circumscribing events, which appear as if leagued together to allow no novelties in the way of amelioration.

- Thomas Hardy

topic: Together, Events, Lines, Striking Out

The only time I have a good hunch the audience is going to be there is when I make the sequel to 'Jurassic Park' or I make another Indiana Jones movie. I know I've got a good shot at getting an audience on opening night. Everything else that is striking out into new territory is a crap shoot.

- Steven Spielberg

topic: Night, Jurassic Park, Territory, Indiana Jones Movie, Striking Out

[ Bernie Sanders' popularity] is exactly the same as Donald Trump's.It is a bunch of people who are disaffected with what the establishment has done, and they are striking out. Do they have any clear idea of what they want as an alternative? No. The candidates that they have surrounded themselves with either have no idea or are promising things that are so impractical they will never get done.

- Michael Bloomberg

source: Source: asia.nikkei.com

topic: Ideas, People, Alternatives, Striking Out

Cooperation in the most natural thing in the world

- Janine Benyus

topic: World, Cooperation, Natural, Natural Things, Monastic Life

I'm still the same person I've always been. I can't say exactly what I'll do; I'm an excessive person. Talk about violence-----I don't do anything violent. Talk about violence, what's going on in Nicaragua? What's going on in El Salvador? That's violent. What are they doing to the planet with chemicals and acid rain? That's violent. What are people doing to each other? Raping. That's violent. I'm striking out at ac icon that has no life. There's a big difference between what has life and what doesn't. I mean. I've been a vegetarian for 16 years.

- Wendy O. Williams

topic: Rain, Mean, Years, Striking Out, El Salvador

I patterned myself after Reggie Jackson. I wanted to have that same swing and hit some homeruns. When I was down in A-ball, I was trying to be Reggie Jackson and I was striking out all the time. And I was like, 'This isn't the way Reggie is doing it, so I got to change.'

- Rickey Henderson

source: Interview with Donald Marquez, www.athleticsnation.com. May 7, 2012.

topic: Swings, Trying, Balls, Striking Out

I threw so hard (after striking out Art Fletcher & Doc Crandall in the 9th inning of Game 1 of the 1912 World Series) I thought my arm would fly right off my body.

- Smoky Joe Wood

topic: Art, Games, Body, Striking Out

In order for you to win a game, a lot of things have to go right. Your team has to win. Your team has to perform. When you talk about striking out people or ERA, that's personal stuff and where you show people what kind of pitcher you are.

- Johan Santana

topic: Team, Winning, Order, Striking Out, Personal Stuff

So much happened (in 1968) it was hard to keep up with everything. We had Denny McLain's thirty-one victories, Gates Brown's great pinch-hitting in the clutch, Tom Matchick's home run to beat Baltimore in the ninth inning, then Daryl Patterson striking out the side to beat them in the ninth. Excitement every day in the ballpark.

- Ernie Harwell

topic: Running, Home, Victory, Ballparks, Striking Out

I hate striking out, doesn't matter what time of the game. I just don't like striking out.

- Joe Mauer

source: "We Play ''Would You Rather" With Joe Mauer". Interview with Rafi Kohan, www.gq.com. March 21, 2011.

topic: Hate, Games, Matter, Striking Out

What I discovered I liked best about striking out on my bicycle was that the farther I got from home, the more interesting and unusual my thoughts became.

- Richard Russo

topic: Travel, Home, Interesting, Striking Out

Another editor. That thing behind his ear is his pencil. Whenever he finds a bright thing in your manuscript he strikes it out with that. That does him good, and makes him smile and show his teeth, the way he is doing in the picture. This one has just been striking out a smart thing, and now he is sitting there with his thumbs in his vest-holes, gloating. They are full of envy and malice, editors are.

- Mark Twain

source: Mark Twain (2014). “What Is Man? (Annotated Edition)”, p.138, Jazzybee Verlag

topic: Smart, Editors, Envy, Striking Out, Manuscripts

It was a basic plot in any number of her books: girl strikes out, makes good, finds love, gets revenge. In that order. The making good and striking out part I liked. The rest would just be bonus.

- Sarah Dessen

source: Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.108, Penguin

topic: Girl, Revenge, Book, Striking Out

It's not fear of striking out that makes me reluctant to step up to the plate. It's the fear of getting hit in the head by a 90 mph fastball, the pitcher coming off of the mound to stomp me with her cleats while I am down, the rest of the opposing team rushing out of the dugout hurling insults as they kick me and spit on me, while all along the crowd in the stands is cheering them on and laughing at my failure. So, no, it's not the fear of striking out that keeps me from stepping up to the plate.

- Jim Copeland

topic: Fear, Cheer, Team, Striking Out, Cleats

As I’d observed, it was clear that Rose was willing to do anything and fight anyone to protect her friend. I admired that—I admired that a lot—but it didn’t stop me from striking out to block her.

- Richelle Mead

source: Richelle Mead (2016). “Vampire Academy 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.196, Penguin

topic: Block, Fighting, Rose, Striking Out