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God isn't really interested in our batting averages. -- Dale Murphy
I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice. -- Casey Stengel
I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice. -- Hank Aaron
Maybe I'm delusional but I'm usually funny. It's not 100% but I have a pretty good batting average. -- Adam Carolla
We devote our entire lives to becoming good ball players. We take batting practice until our hands bleed. -- Willie Stargell
If Trescothick had tried to get me off the field when batting well, I'd have hit him with my bat. -- Geoffrey Boycott
I've learned that getting what you want gives you a pretty high batting average, and leaves you plenty to struggle for. -- Loretta Young
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 federal government does not trample in jackboots those with whom it does business. It wraps them in cotton batting and, when they express ingratitude, apologizes profusely. -- Timothy Noah
I have no idea what my batting average was in high school, but I know it wasn't below .450, and that's pretty good hitting where I come from. -- Joe Namath
Without global human rights, labor and environmental movements, companies would still be hiring 12-year-olds as a matter of course and poisoning our groundwater without batting an eyelid. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
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
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
My own tastes happen to be in tune with what the public wants. I think that's the reason my batting average is so high, not because I've discovered some brilliant formula. -- Cameron Mackintosh
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
To me, form is not about scoring runs but how you feel about your game. Sometimes the runs are not there, but you know you are batting well, and that is good form for me. -- Gautam Gambhir
I was in the hockey team in school, played football. One of the challenges for me was to make the team feel better. It helped me evolve, so batting at different positions was never a problem. -- Rahul Dravid
If I can get a story about a player, I would give you a ship load of numbers, batting averages and all just for that one precious story. That's the kind of thing that I love to do. -- Vin Scully
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
I had very good support from Democrats and Republicans all throughout my administration. I had a very high batting average. We added more jobs per year in my four years than any other president since the Second World War. -- Jimmy Carter
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. -- Yuvraj Singh
In baseball, you can hit 40 home runs on a single-A-league team and never get paid a thing. But in a hedge fund, you get paid on your batting average. So you go to the worst league you can find, where there's the least competition. -- Julian Robertson
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
Music, for me, is vital. Punjabi, Bollywood, Sufi, RnB... I listen to it all. When I'm not listening to music, you will find me chatting with friends. Off the field, I just let my instincts take over. I certainly don't think about batting, or which bowlers I'm going to face. -- Virat Kohli
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
Growing up, in my under-15 days I used to be a wicketkeeper, and that carried on till I was 17. Then I started focusing on my batting and moved on. I got into the Ranji team quite early, and generally, as a youngster, the first place you are put in is at bat-pad and short leg, so you had to work on your close-in fielding straightaway. -- Rahul Dravid
Virat Kohli is an ODI batting legend -- Viv Richards
Pitching always beats batting ? and vice-versa. -- Yogi Berra
What I seek is the highest possible batting average. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
If you want to learn batting, bat with MS Dhoni. -- Ravindra Jadeja
I was nervous batting eighth, and I was nervous batting seventh. -- Dontrelle Willis
When the leaves turn brown, I'll be wearing the batting crown -- Dave Parker
I didn't think much about batting average when I was playing. -- Harmon Killebrew
I've seen batting all over the world. And in other countries too -- Keith Miller
It would be useless for any player to attempt to explain successful batting. -- Tris Speaker
If you're batting and you go off on one it can't really help you. -- Andrew Flintoff
If I had to last 20 years, I would probably be batting in a wheelchair. -- Ricky Ponting
Ballplayers who are first to the dining room are usually last in batting averages. -- Jimmy Cannon
I like to score and drive in runs more than pay attention to batting average. -- Alex Rodriguez
I can't really say I'm batting badly. I'm not batting long enough to be batting badly -- Greg Chappell
We're not going to have a perfect batting average and it's important that Americans understand that. -- Michael Leiter
Most institutional investors feel compelled to swing at almost every pitch and forgo batting selectivity for frequency. -- Seth Klarman
Commit all your crimes when Sachin is batting. They will go unnoticed because even the Lord is watching. -- Sachin Tendulkar
You can never have a thousand percent batting average on jokes - it's just never going to happen. -- Paul Feig
There were times last year when people looked at the scoreboard and thought my batting average was the temperature. -- Buck Martinez
He has defined cricket in his fabulous, impeccable manner. He is to batting what Shane Warne is to bowling. -- Richie Benaud
Teams can't prepare for me in batting practice. They can't find anyone who throws as slow as I do. -- Dave LaPoint
I tried to use batting gloves at the beginning of every spring training up until 1999. It just didn't feel good. -- Vladimir Guerrero
If I have a 100 percent batting average, you should fire me, because it means we haven't tried anything really noble. -- Larry Brilliant
I rarely hit home runs in batting practice, and usually when I do feel that good, I'll have a bad game. -- Todd Helton
Test cricket is bloody hard work, especially when you've got Sachin batting with what looks like a three metre wide bat. -- Michael Hussey
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
I think we've been a lot more disciplined with our bowling. Our batting at times has been more disciplined as well. -- Ricky Ponting
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
It is only fair to admit, however, that my batting average in the crystal ball league is point, zero, zero, zero. -- Leslie Ford
I've been taking batting practice in my barn where nobody can see me, so I may be better than anyone thinks. -- Garth Brooks
I never had a coach teach me, my style of batting, nor do I believe in coaching at an international level. -- Shahid Afridi
I never keep a scorecard or the batting averages. I hate statistics. What I got to know, I keep in my head. -- Dizzy Dean
Children and even adults, when they like certain athletes, they can tell you about their batting average, about where they came from. -- Jamie Farr
Sachin was so focused. He never looked like getting out. He was batting with single-minded devotion. It was truly remarkable. It was a lesson. -- Martina Navratilova
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
In the old days, you know, they didn't have batting cages. And in most ball parks, they only had one runway to the dugout. -- Pete Rose
A run is more difficult to make than no save, because batting is in its nature a far less certain and reliable thing than bowling and fielding. -- Ranjitsinhji
You're not going to have a 1.000 batting average, but the way you get votes is, you just push and you push. I'm not afraid to do that. -- Tim Kaine
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
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
I never realized that batting a little ball around could cause so much commotion. I now know how (Charles) Lindbergh must have felt when he returned from St. Louis. -- Stan Musial
Support your partner in their interests. You never know when batting practice, kung fu movie moves, or even a poker night might come in handy during a zombie infestation. -- Jesse Petersen
It is difficult batting in artificial light with a red ball but it's a horrible task for umpires to make a judgement, particularly if they're going by light meters. -- Adam Gilchrist
Our prep's not going to be any different. It will be optional batting practice like there was today. I don't want any more work. I don't want extra study. -- Joe Maddon
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
I don't want to take anything away from Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle. They're both great hitters, but they're batting against guys they never would have seen in previous years. -- Ted Williams
All baseball fans can be divided into two groups: those who come to batting practice and the others. Only those in the first category have much chance of amounting to anything. -- Thomas Boswell
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
What Strauss is going through drives you nuts. If you care about your batting - which I'm sure he does - he will feel like jumping off a bridge and committing suicide -- Bill Vaughan
Joe DiMaggio batting sometimes gave the impression, the suggestion that the old rules and dimensions of baseball no longer applied to him, and that the game had at last grown unfairly easy. -- Donald Hall
If I had done everything I was supposed to, I'd be leading the league in homers, have the highest batting average, have given $100,000 to the Cancer Fund and be married to Marie Osmond. -- Catfish Hunter
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
You live and die in the batting of my eyes. You cast a wavering shadow over the snow for a day. I cast my shadow over empires across eons." - Orm Hinn Langi the Dragon -- Lou Anders
He (Mickey Mantle) should lead the league in everything. With his combination of speed and power he should win the triple batting crown every year. In fact, he should do anything he wants to do. -- Casey Stengel
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

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