Top 120 Batting Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Batting Quotes from famous people such as Ravindra Jadeja, Buster Posey, Dizzy Dean, Jonny Bairstow, Shreyas Iyer, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

At first I didn't realize that I had fractured my thumb

At first I didn’t realize that I had fractured my thumb amidst the momentum of batting.
Ravindra Jadeja
I enjoy batting practice before the games.
Buster Posey
I never keep a scorecard or the batting averages. I hate statistics. What I got to know, I keep in my head.
Dizzy Dean
I’ve always said I don’t mind where I bat and I have exactly the same mindset when I’m batting seven as I would at five.
Jonny Bairstow
There should be no more questions asked about India’s number 4 batting slot. If someone has played on that position for a year then he has secured that spot. Good feeling about securing the number 4 spot.
Shreyas Iyer
I don’t see myself as a father figure but as someone who the younger players can come to and talk to about cricket. Not just batting but cricket in general and I am ready to impart with any information or advice I have.
Brian Lara
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
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
I’ve had a go at captaincy. Batting and bowling and captaincy turned out to be a bit too much.
Andrew Flintoff
I would love to be a coach, mentor, or a batting consultant. I would love to commentate in Hindi, as most people who watch the game are more comfortable with Hindi in India rather than English.
Virender Sehwag
Absolutely, Dhoni inspires me. He does it for wicket-keeping and batting both. He is a great keeper. I idolise him. The way he finishes an innings I would like to do the same for Pakistan too.
Sarfaraz Ahmed
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
I don’t want to overplay the diary’s significance, but it’s a really helpful batting aid. It’s not an obsession because I don’t spend more than 10 or 20 minutes writing a day – and not necessarily every day. I might write in it three days in a row and then not the next four. It depends on the situation.
Andrew Strauss
If someone taps me on the shoulder and tells me they don’t want me to open the batting for England, it’s going to hurt.
Alastair Cook
Someone enjoys your batting, and someone, your humour. Since I’m not batting any longer, I can at least say some words, so people enjoy and give me compliments, too.
Virender Sehwag
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
My batting practice would be a guy throwing balls in the way in which I liked it. It was all about getting ball on bat, rather than something whizzing past your ear.
Viv Richards
I am happy with my batting form. I have been bowling well, too, and have bowled long spells.
Vijay Shankar
If any IPL team wants me to be a mentor or a batting consultant, I would love to do that. I can share my knowledge with the youngsters.
Virender Sehwag
In the spring of 1957, Mickey Mantle was the king of New York. He had the Triple Crown to prove it, having become only the 12th player in history to earn baseball’s gaudiest jewel. In 1956, he had finally fulfilled the promise of his promise, batting .353, with 52 homers and 130 RBIs. Everybody loved Mickey.
Jane Leavy
I go out there every day, take early batting practice, fly balls.
Ken Griffey Jr.
I’ve been taking batting practice in my barn where nobody can see me, so I may be better than anyone thinks.
Garth Brooks
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 used to bowl a lot of seam-up for Tamil Nadu and then my pelvic disc slipped. Then I just started batting, I didn’t want to bowl at all. I wanted to do nothing with bowling.
Ravichandran Ashwin
I am capable of batting at No. 4, from where I can build an innings. I have performed the role in the past. I have also been coming later down the order and donned the role of a finisher.
Dinesh Karthik
When you open the batting, you have to read the pitch first up and try to understand the situation. But at No. 3, you know what is happening out there. It makes things a little simple when it comes to reading the game.
Prithvi Shaw
During the season especially, we take a lot of swings, we play a lot of games, we swing a lot in games, batting practice, all that, so to maintain your shoulder the strongest is one of the key points that we focused on in the offseason.
Pablo Sandoval
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
One of the things that I miss the most about cricket and batting in particular is that meditation of cricket, that involvement of myself – mind, body and spirit – to delivering that one specific process, which is to execute a cricket shot. It is a beautiful feeling; it is very hard to replicate.
Matthew Hayden
I do enjoy batting – if the bowling’s not quick!
Fidel Edwards
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
Some of the apps I use are Google Maps, Amazon, Zomato

Some of the apps I use are Google Maps, Amazon, Zomato and Facetime. I also use media player so that I can watch my batting videos and some movies.
Ajinkya Rahane
I think the more you practise batting, follow the drills, the better you get.
Prithvi Shaw
People might think I am hypocritical because clearly my batting gave me an opportunity, certainly in the one-day team. I still always placed most importance on my wicketkeeping.
Adam Gilchrist
I have worked really hard on my game, but I think my mother has been a real pillar of strength. She has prayed a lot, sacrificed a lot for me. You know, she hasn’t seen me bat so far. When I am batting, she is praying… mothers are like that, aren’t they?
Yuvraj Singh
The Oval has always been a good batting track, and there’s not much for the bowlers.
Bhuvneshwar Kumar
When rain is around, the team batting second gets a huge advantage.
Shahid Afridi
If you are batting first as an opener, you give yourselves a couple of overs, see what’s the wicket behaving, and then try to assess what a good score on that wicket would be, and then you plan accordingly.
K. L. Rahul
Maybe I’m delusional but I’m usually funny. It’s not 100% but I have a pretty good batting average.
Adam Carolla
What I intend to do is to launch a batting academy. I have been a batsman throughout my life, and I can’t open a bowling academy after all!
Inzamam-ul-Haq
You know, it’s strange when you’re a guest star, because everybody knows each other so well, and they’re relaxed, and they have a routine. So you kind of feel like you’ve just been brought up to the majors for one game, and you’re batting ninth.
Sam Lloyd
Opening the batting in Test cricket, facing up to fast bowlers looking to do their worst with a new, hard ball is incredibly tough. You have to be brave, single-minded and prepared to work very, very hard.
Jonathan Agnew
My batting mentality is to see the ball and hit it. I don’t know what bowlers see while batting.
Smriti Mandhana
I have always enjoyed playing as a batsman. In the T20 format, I have been asked to play at six or seven. I have finished a few innings batting first and a few chasing. It feels good and it feels like yes I can do it.
Dinesh Karthik
After I failed to win the Most Valuable Player Award in 1960, I made up my mind I’d win the batting title in 1961 for the first time.
Roberto Clemente
Obviously, when I go in at No. 11 it stands to reason that we will have a better chance of scoring runs or batting out time if the batsman at the other end takes most of the strike. That’s because, as my place in the order suggests, he is a better batsman than me.
James Anderson
I was not picked immediately at any level, be it Under-14, Under-16 or Under-19. So apart from my batting, I bowled legspin. In one of the selection tournaments for Mumbai Under-19, I happened to pick 34 wickets. So I was finally picked, but as a bowling allrounder.
Shreyas Iyer
If I have a 100 percent batting average, you should fire me, because it means we haven’t tried anything really noble.
Larry Brilliant
You’ve just got to keep grinding, putting good ABs together; just stop trying to look at the record, your batting average. You’ve got to go out there and just keep playing.
Freddie Freeman
The beauty of a game like softball is you’re failing every day. You might have a .300 batting average, but you’re still failing seven out of 10 times. But you’re still good.
Jessica Mendoza
I was constantly searching for something and you kid yourself that someone out there has got that secret to batting that they can give you one piece of advice that will enable you to go and score a hundred every time. It is silly. By trying to learn I confused myself.
Jos Buttler
I don’t see pitches down the middle anymore – not even in batting practice.
Hank Aaron
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
The loss in the final of the 2017 World Cup really inspired me to do a lot better. I worked a lot on my batting as I didn’t want to go back to that phase again.
Smriti Mandhana
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