The first couple months, I was hitting the ball hard but had some awful, awful luck. You stay positive, keep grinding out… — Dan Uggla Copy Share Image
Hitting. That's what I enjoy most. Realistically, it's probably the hardest thing to do in all of sport. Think about it. You've… — Pete Rose Copy Share Image
I loved Veronica right off the bat. She was so strong and I think it is so important because there are so… — Kristen Bell Copy Share Image
Know what the difference between hitting .250 and .300 is? It's 25 hits - 25 hits in 500 at-bats is 50 points.… — Crash Davis Copy Share Image
A woman drew her long black hair out tight, And fiddled whisper music on those strings, And bats with baby faces in… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
I try to walk like Christ in my life. If I strike out, I don't curse, or throw my bat or hit… — Torii Hunter Copy Share Image
I remember I autographed it to Mutt Lange, and I may only have put one t on Mutt. I mean, I'd never… — Shania Twain Copy Share Image
How to hit home runs: I swing as hard as I can, and I try to swing right through the ball... The… — Babe Ruth Copy Share Image
I wrote 'Airborn' after completing three books about bats. I loved my bats, but what a treat it was to write about… — Kenneth Oppel Copy Share Image
To some people, I am kind of a Merlin who takes lots of crazy chances, but rarely makes mistakes. I've made some… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
The words given voice inside the mind are not always clear, however; they can be gentle and elliptical, what the prophets call… — Laurie R. King Copy Share Image
“Ariel contributed nothing to the speculation, instead crossing his arms one over the other. The action recalled his butterfly familiars from the… — Lisa Mantchev Copy Share Image
Sometimes when you cut your bed tracks right off the bat, you don't really know where the vocal is landing and where… — Tommy Lee Copy Share Image
I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After… — Yogi Berra Copy Share Image
I am terminally sentimental about graduations. They are more individual than weddings, more conscious than christenings, or bar mitzvahs or bat mitzvahs.… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
the psyche has been burned and left us senseless, the world has been darker than lights-out in a closet full of hungry… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
The birds can fly, an' why can't I? Must we give in," says he, with a grin, "'T the blackbird an' phoebe… — John Townsend Trowbridge Copy Share Image
Yeah we're not together anymore. She has got - she has got a new boyfriend now. They just moved into together. And… — Anthony Jeselnik Copy Share Image
Star Wars is adolescent nonsense; Close Encounters is obscurist drivel; ‘Star Trek’ can turn your brains into puree of bat guano; and… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
Most songs have meager beginnings. You wake up in the morning, you throw on your suspenders, and you subvocalize and just think.… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
The one thing that struck me right off the bat was what Donald Trump said about Benghazi.There is this view out there… — Michael Morell Copy Share Image
What I've learned, above all, is to keep marching forward because the best news is that since chance does play a role,… — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
In 50over cricket there are different ways of playing. It's not all about smacking it over the top. It's important someone bats… — Andrew Strauss Copy Share Image
Curiously, only in sports do we agree to eschew technological advances, making rules, for example, to limit the power potential of baseball… — Gene Logsdon Copy Share Image
I'm a pitcher, so the glove is my only accessory. The hitters get to have all the fun. They have batting helmets,… — C. J. Wilson Copy Share Image
The small gargoyle had gone entirely white to match the ceiling, and only the rims of his ears, his long clawlike nails,… — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image
“Favorite Quotations. I speak my mind because it hurts to bite my tongue. The worth of a book is measured by what… — Pat Frayne Copy Share Image
“I can't say I'm unhappy about it,' added the bard, 'I get along well enough with mice, and I've always been found… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
Sometimes you've got to be a little flexible. For the most part, it's hard to get players to look at the big… — Terry Francona Copy Share Image
Half the things I've done are wrong, mistakes [unintelligible]. The moratorium on pot and LSD a year ago is ridiculous. I shouldn't… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
When I am at home, I never go near the synagogue unless, say, there is a bar or bat mitzvah involving the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
You have to respect your parents. They are giving you an at-bat. If you're an entrepreneur and go into the family business,… — Gary Vaynerchuk Copy Share Image
Children are very overprotected now, in lots of ways. We're very nervous about them. You know, people go, "Don't go outside! Or… — Dylan Moran Copy Share Image
One of the most fundamental questions people have about defense attorneys is, 'How can you do that? How can you go to… — David E. Kelley Copy Share Image
I struck out with two men on base. I was so angry, so frustrated, I turned and without even thinking about it,… — Bo Jackson Copy Share Image
When he (Roger Clemens) threw the bat (during Game 2 of the 2000 World Series), I basically walked out and kept asking… — Mike Piazza Copy Share Image
I'm aware of how pop culture really infiltrates your expectations in a way that even if you think you're savvy about pop… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
Welcome it as part of a process... you just can't avoid it... if you go to bat enough times, you are going… — Peter Guber Copy Share Image
People have asked me a lot of times, because I didn't hit a lot, how long a dozen bats would last me.… — Bob Uecker Copy Share Image
When you're in a slump, you do something different, just to try it. I remember one time I was in a slump,… — Joe Torre Copy Share Image