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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
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? -- Yogi Berra
Now go away, or I'll get my friends the Bats to bite you. -- David Clement-Davies
You just listen to the ball and bat come together. They make an awful noise. -- Darrell Johnson
It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square. -- Pete Rose
A gun is no more dangerous than a cricket bat in the hands of a madman. -- Prince Philip
Well, boys, it's a round ball and a round bat and you got to hit the ball square. -- Joe Schultz
Bats drink on the wing, like swallows, by sipping the surface, as they play over pools and streams. -- Gilbert White
When you're in Los Angeles, nobody bats an eye, they're so used to seeing actors, they just act really cool -- Luke Wilson
The Olympics are great for notoriety right off the bat, but your body of work is what people remember you for. -- Brian Boitano
To cure a batting slump, I took my bat to bed with me. I wanted to know my bat a little better. -- Richie Ashburn
The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball. -- Bill Veeck
All careers go up and down like friendships, like marriages, like anything else, and you can't bat a thousand all the time. -- Julie Andrews
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. -- Brooks Robinson
By the time I wrote 'Any Given Sunday' or 'Bats,' I sort of knew what my job was in terms of what a writer of dialogue does. -- John Logan
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. -- Bob Uecker
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. -- Ernie Harwell
Creatures that hang themselves up like an old rag, to sleep; And disgustingly upside down. Hanging upside down like rows of disgusting old rags And grinning in their sleep. Bats! -- D. H. Lawrence
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?' -- Robin Williams
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. -- Brooks Robinson
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. -- Mangosuthu Buthelezi
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. -- Anthony Rizzo
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. -- William Shakespeare
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. -- Bill Veeck
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. -- Lefty Gomez
Doughboy," I said. "What is this scroll?" "A spell lost in time!" he pronounced. "Ancient words of tremendous power!" "Well?" I demanded. "Does it tell how to defeat Set?" "Better! The title reads: The Book of Summoning Fruit Bats! -- Rick Riordan
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. -- Mickey Mantle
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. -- Kristen Bell
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! -- Dr. Seuss
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. -- Hank Aaron
Nobody bats 500. We all make mistakes. -- Desi Arnaz
Words can be like baseball bats when used maliciously. -- Sydney Madwed
There are more people killed with baseball bats and hammers than are killed with guns. -- Paul Broun
I am really quite fascinated by echo-locating bats and dolphins and have always wondered how sound affects the unconscious brain. -- Evelyn Glennie
Like an author, a cricketer signs his name on every innings he bats or bowls in; indeed for every cricket ball that challenges him on the field. -- Harsha Bhogle
The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out. -- Lance Morrow
Vampires were always able to transform into creatures of the night. The dark creatures like bats have always been associated with vampires and using the darkness to their own advantage. -- Luke Evans
For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all. -- Aristotle
Disasters such as earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes, floods, oil spills and radioactive fallout cause massive death of people, pigs, bats and birds. These disasters also impact the immune health of survivors. All harbor viruses. -- Paul Stamets
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
I had been playing for a while, and I asked Louisville Slugger to send me a dozen flame treated bats. But when I got it, I realized they had sent me a box of ashes. -- Bob Uecker
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
I'd like to get out of Philadelphia. I don't care for the people or their attitude, although they don't bother me or my play. But maybe the Phillies can get a couple of broken bats and shower shoes for me. -- Richie Allen
When I get the record, all it will make me is the player with the most hits. I'm also the player with the most at bats and the most outs. I never said I was a greater player than Cobb. -- Pete Rose
I remember when we were doing the first Dragon's Lair, I got really involved with coming up with all the little rooms and what was the danger in the room and going into it with bats and spiders and snakes. -- Don Bluth
People have asked me a lot of times, because I didn't hit a lot, how long a dozen bats would last me. Depending on the weight and model I was using at that time - I would say eight to 10 cookouts. -- Bob Uecker
You know, when I was a young boy I used to play baseball in my back yard or in the street with my brothers or the neighborhood kids. We used broken bats and plastic golf balls and played for hours and hours. -- Robin Yount
When you're in a slump, you do something different, just to try it. I remember one time I was in a slump, and I borrowed one of Henry Aaron's bats and hit two homers. I used my own bats the next night. I just needed a change. -- Joe Torre
I have entered the sports equipment business with 'Bhajji Sports.' I am applying for ICC clearance so that cricket bats with 'Bhajji Sports' logos could be used for international matches. In domestic circuit, the Punjab team is already wearing Bhajji Sports dresses for the Ranji Trophy matches. -- Harbhajan Singh
I think I had the smallest handle around. When I got my bats, I even trimmed them down. I used to scrape them. Some years later when I started getting older, I used to start with a 33 and in the summer it got down to 31 and then probably in September got down to 30. -- Stan Musial
I mean, I have done scenes with animals, with owls, with bats, with cats, with special effects, with thespians, in the freezing cold, in the pouring rain, boiling hot; I've done press with every syndication, every country; I've done interviews with people dressed up as cows - there's honestly nothing that's gonna intimidate me! -- Emma Watson
Sydney is rather like an arrogant lover. When it rains it can deny you its love and you can find it hard to relate to. It's not a place that's built to be rainy or cold. But when the sun comes out, it bats its eyelids, it's glamorous, beautiful, attractive, smart, and it's very hard to get away from its magnetic pull. -- Baz Luhrmann
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 that out later, after we got out of baseball. He and Rube Walker stole my bats. -- Stan Musial
He bats like a lightning rod. -- W. P. Kinsella
Everybody has bad at-bats -- except McCutchen. -- Kirk Gibson
I like being close to the bats. -- Don Mattingly
Them bats is smart. They use radar! -- David Letterman
The dead elm leaves hung like folded bats. -- Josephine Winslow Johnson
Derek Randall bats like an octopus with piles -- Matthew Engel
The fans know that I don't give at-bats away. -- David Ortiz
Jealousy clings to love's underside like bats to a bridge. -- Amy Waldman
Adult bats don't weigh much. They're mainly fur and appetite. -- Diane Ackerman
I've seen God. He bats at No. 4 for India in tests -- Matthew Hayden
But make no mistake: the weeds will win: nature bats last. -- Robert Pyle
You always want to get at-bats. You always want to contribute. -- Jim Thome
If I go 500 at-bats and hit 10 home runs, then something's wrong. -- Morgan Ensberg
I'm trying to put together quality at-bats and hit the ball hard somewhere. -- Garrett Atkins
Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight. -- Francis Bacon
I now know what Sachin Tendulkar feels every time he bats in India. -- Adam Gilchrist
It took us a little while, but we swung the bats well tonight. -- Chase Utley
The beauty of the moonlight has no meaning for the bats and for the unfeeling minds! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
In New York City, the common bats fly only at twilight. Brick-bats fly at all hours. -- George D. Prentice
I owe my success to expansion pitching, a short right field fence, and my hollow bats. -- Norm Cash
At a wavering instant the swallows gave way to bats By the Ponte Vecchio . . . Changing guard. -- D. H. Lawrence
I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats. -- Tennessee Williams
the colour of my soul is iron-grey and sad bats wheel about the steeple of my dreams. -- Claude Debussy
The truth is, we [women] live like bats, or owls, labor like beasts, and die like worms. -- Margaret Cavendish
I would order a dozen bats and there were times they'd come back with handles at each end. -- Bob Uecker
All coaches religiously carry fungo bats in the spring to ward off suggestions that they are not working. -- Jim Brosnan
I want to hit the ball and I want to get at-bats. The results really dont matter to me. -- Torii Hunter
Hitters are too big, too strong, and their bats are too quick. I have to go inside to have success. -- Tim Hudson
When you're in Los Angeles, nobody bats an eye, they're so used to seeing actors, they just act really cool. -- Luke Wilson
Coonskin caps, Yankee bats, the Hound Dog man's big start. The A-bomb fears, Annette had ears, I lusted in my heart. -- John Fogerty
Everyone has an enemy. It's why God gave us baseball bats. Well, He gave us trees, but we knew what He meant. -- Christopher Titus
Hitting at the top of the order is a good thing. You get more at-bats. I'm excited to see how this develops. -- Chase Utley
Isn't it odd? A guy bats .301 and has 35 homers. Then everybody starts to tell him what a good fielder he has become. -- Dick Stuart
Pro-rated at 500 at-bats a year that means that for two years out of the fourteen I played, I never even touched the ball. -- Norm Cash
Two bats were hanging up in a cave and one said to the other, 'When I'm older, I hope I don't become incontinent'. -- Mick Miller
Not treasured wealth, nor the consul's lictor, can dispel the mind's bitter conflicts and the cares that flit, like bats, about your fretted roofs. -- Horace
We have found that bats adjust the timing of their sounds when they encounter clutter, and they seem to 'strobe' the world with sound. -- Cynthia Moss
I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats. (On the KKK) -- Woody Allen
My head was a condemned church with a ceiling of bats, but I swung from this dark mood to euphoria when I thought about leaving. -- Dave Eggers
There will be hoards of vampire bats descending on Beverly Hills.... We'll see if they can find any real flesh to puncture. I don't know. -- Lucy Lawless
Light itself is a great corrective. A thousand wrongs and abuses that are grown in darkness disappear, like owls and bats, before the light of day. -- James A. Garfield
Words should wander and meander. They should fly like owls and flicker like bats and slip like cats. They should murmur and scream and dance and sing. -- David Almond
And with a little sense of humor we can say that there are Christian bats who prefer the shadows to the light of the presence of the Lord. -- Pope Francis
I feel good. At this point, the only thing I'm trying to do is accumulate at-bats and get my work in, and so far that's what I'm doing. -- Scott Rolen
It's especially gratifying to have done a film like 'Eight Men Out' because it's hard not to have fun when there are so many bats and balls around. -- D. B. Sweeney
I didnâ??t realize that one tragedy can beget another, and another â?? bright-eyed disasters flooding out of a death hole like bats out of a cave. -- Karen Russell
Her voice was now so shrill only bats would be able to hear it soon, but she had reached a level of indignation that rendered her temporarily speechless.. -- J. K. Rowling
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? -- Prince Philip
I'm sure I've been a toad, one time or another. With bats, weasels, worms...I rejoice in the kinship. Even the caterpillar I can love, and the various vermin. -- Theodore Roethke
We could get kinky and see how bats and rats make love, he suggested in a whisper, warm breath against her neck. You are a sick man, Jacques. Very, very sick. -- Christine Feehan
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. -- Dizzy Dean
Clusters of bats hung like bunches of withered grapes from the roof and when, from time to time, either Kerim's head or Bond's brushed against them, they exploded twittering into the darkness. -- Ian Fleming
I'm not so fond of the sort of science fiction that isn't really science fiction but is sometimes thought to be - Gothic princesses and white horses and bats and castles and things. -- Richard Dawkins
Sourav's calm and assured presence sets him apart. His captaincy is of a high order but he bats sensibly and reads situations well. I hope Sourav too becomes a World Cup wining captain. -- Lata Mangeshkar
Occasionally, a young catcher is born with a backup's soul. Bob Montgomery was on the Red Sox opening day roster for the entire 1970s, yet he never had more than 254 at-bats in a season. -- Stephen Rodrick
Oh, no! I promise it's not human," Mom bats her hands in the air in an effort to wrangle them back into their seats"It's newborn calf.""Oh, Hon, we don't do baby legs neither. -- Addison Moore
Just because you're down to your last strike, you're not out yet. You can always do more. You'll always have more at-bats to take. That's true in baseball, in rescuing animals, and in life generally. -- Tony La Russa
Just because you're down to your last strike, you're not out yet. You can always do more. You'll always have more at-bats to take. That's true in baseball, in rescuing animals, and in life, generally. -- Tony La Russa

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