Batting Quotes · Page 2

If I had to last 20 years, I would probably be batting in a wheelchair.

— Ricky Ponting

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

— Casey Stengel

I think the more you practise batting, follow the drills, the better you get.

— Prithvi Shaw

Working my way through different formats has not changed my batting approach much.

— K. L. Rahul

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

— Tris Speaker

I just enjoy batting, scoring runs, and contributing for my team.

— K. L. Rahul

I'd say that probably 95 per cent of batting is mental and decision-making.

— Steve Smith

I've always said, even batting leadoff, that I want to be a dangerous hitter.

— Trea Turner

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

— Bob Uecker

“I would like to be an umpire when Sachin is batting, so to get the best possible view of his shots.”

— Amit Kalantri

English conditions have changed over the years. Lots of runs are being scored in one-day cricket now in England, pitches are good…

— Sourav Ganguly

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

— Todd Helton

The Indian bowlers picked me for sledging when I was batting well. They called me school boy. But I was enjoying it…

— Mushfiqur Rahim

I'm not some little soft touch. I will never take a backward step when batting, but I want to be respected as…

— Alastair Cook

For me, David Warner isn't just the future of Australian batting, he's the future for cricket in general because he can excel…

— Fidel Edwards

Look, it's always different playing in different conditions, different situations, batting in a few different spots. I don't really think about that…

— Kane Williamson

I have always believed in my batting abilities. I have always put my hand up as a pure batsman and have enjoyed…

— Dinesh Karthik

I feel that I'm in on the ground floor of something that human beings will be concentrating on for the next 1,000…

— Deke Slayton

Imagine if you had baseball cards that showed all the performance stats for your people: batting averages, home runs, errors, ERAs, win/loss…

— Ray Dalio

We have a lot of freedom to express ourselves. When you see us playing on the field, I guess you can make…

— Rohit Sharma

“Since 2008, batters have hit only .175 against pitches thrown at 100 m.p.h. or above. Batting averages go up as the speed…

— Barry Bearak

I'd love to see pitches start very dry all over the world, which is good for batting but means there will be…

— Geoffrey Boycott

No one is perfect. Your ERA is not zero. You're not going to have 30 wins. And your batting average isn't going…

— Ken Griffey Jr

It is important that whenever you do get opportunities to practice, just get in some batting and be in a place where…

— Dinesh Karthik

It took time for the church to come to terms with the ignominy of the cross. Church fathers forbade its depiction in…

— Philip Yancey

Statistics are the lifeblood of baseball. In no other sport are so many available and studied so assiduously by participants and fans.…

— Leonard Koppett

One day he [Wagner] was batting against a young pitcher who had just come into the league. The catcher was a kid,…

— Burleigh Grimes

“There is perhaps no examination in sport more exacting than opening the batting in Test cricket, certainly none more extensive and probing.…

— Daniel Harris

“As in diamonds so in batting, perfection requires flawlessness and nowhere is a batting imperfection more quickly recognised than in the dropped…

— Patrick Ferriday

Walt had a seat-of-the-pants approach on what he wanted musically. We kind of 'read' the boss and had a very high batting…

— Richard Sherman

Yes, outside India, my batting performances have been highlighted more.

— Ravindra Jadeja

When rain is around, the team batting second gets a huge advantage.

— Shahid Afridi

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

— Andrew Flintoff

“Century was an occasional thing in cricket, Sachin made it frequent.”

— Amit Kalantri

I loved captaining and trying to win games - but I wasn't enjoying batting any more.

— Andrew Strauss

The Oval has always been a good batting track, and there's not much for the bowlers.

— Bhuvneshwar Kumar

I'm not a cleanup hitter. I'm just batting fourth.

— Ben Zobrist

I have to be flexible in my role, batting and bowling.

— Vijay Shankar

At first I didn't realize that I had fractured my thumb amidst the momentum of batting.

— Ravindra Jadeja

I didn't think much about batting average when I was playing.

— Harmon Killebrew