The person I wanted to fight right off the bat was Brock…

In college, I had a crush on one of my professors. I used to bat my eyelashes and coo at him. He didn't respond…

— Navi Rawat

As a mother, I don't want any girl twerking near my kid at a bat mitzvah.

— Faith Salie

I can bat in the morning, afternoon, evening, night, on ice, desert, wherever and whenever. It is almost nirvana for me. It takes me…

— Gautam Gambhir

We were in Philadelphia when Manager Pat shifted me from third to short, and right off the bat, I knew I had found my…

— Bobby Wallace

Growing up in New Jersey, bat mitzvas were all about the elegant parties.

— Judy Gold

It does not make any difference where I bat.

— Hardik Pandya

I learned to bat and bowl on different pitches and knew when to go hard and when to back off. It was just something…

— Garfield Sobers

I like wearing good clothes. Some of my friends who are into making clothes told me since I was already playing with my own…

— Harbhajan Singh

There are guys that you look at and you want to really bowl at them or bat against them, certain guys who really get…

— Ben Stokes

My favourite game is wiffle ball, a fake version of baseball with a plastic ball and bat that's really for kids.

— Ty Burrell

The harder you grip the bat, the more you can swing it through the ball, and the farther the ball will go.

— George Herman

I know what makes me good, and it's not a bat.

— AB de Villiers

I quite clearly remember driving home at 9 a.m., after shooting all day, in a bathrobe, with bodypaint all over my face, and going…

— Gotye

You've got a little round ball and a little round bat and anything can happen.

— Lefty Grove

Like the periwig and the bowler bat, the plus-four and the bow-tie, the blazer is on the way out, and those who persist in…

— Craig Brown