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What batters you becomes your strength. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
Anybody's best pitch is the one the batters ain't hitting that day. -- Christy Mathewson
Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails. -- Euripides
You know you're pitching well when the batters look as bad as you do at the plate. -- Duke Snider
I want to be the first player to show what Japanese batters can do in the major league. -- Ichiro Suzuki
I can't very well tell my batters don't hit it to him. Wherever they hit it, he's there anyway (Mays). -- Gil Hodges
I'm the type of pitcher that definitely gets stronger and better adjusted to the batters as the season goes on. -- Daisuke Matsuzaka
Maybe your history just repeats and repeats until it batters you enough to snap the seams that hold you together -- David Levithan
Some batters, and good ones too, scoff at the whole theory of place hitting, calling it a myth. They are wrong, however. -- Edd Roush
I threw a lot of balls and walked a lot of batters. Not something I'm proud of, but something I learned from. -- Randy Johnson
I have observed that baseball is not unlike war, and when you get right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery. -- Ty Cobb
I have observed that baseball is not unlike a war, and when you come right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery. -- Ty Cobb
The home run became glorified with Babe Ruth. Starting with him, batters have been thinking in terms of how far they could hit the ball, not how often. -- Rogers Hornsby
It is time that beats in the breast and it is time That batters against the mind, silent and proud, The mind that knows it is destroyed by time. -- Wallace Stevens
The artful pitcher must take the inevitable peaks and valleys of pitching in stride and never give in to the batters or lose sight of his/her own strengths. -- Tom Seaver
I didn't do it (pitch like he did) for show. I did it to get batters out. Players would tell me, 'We can't tell where the ball is coming from.' -- Luis Tiant
Ninety percent of the research comes first. I mostly blunder around reading stuff and talking to smart people until an idea batters or oozes its way through to my narrative brain. -- Scott Westerfeld
Twenty games is the magic figure for pitchers - .300 is the magic figures for batters. It pays off in salary and reputation. And those are the two things that keep a ballplayer in business. -- Warren Spahn

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