Words matter. These are the best Bats Quotes from famous people such as Pardis Sabeti, Min-sik Choi, Nasser Hussain, Keith Hernandez, Mohammad Azharuddin, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Unlike some viruses, we don’t know what the natural reservoir is for Ebola. A lot of people think it’s bats, but it’s still very controversial; it could have been circulating in insects, in an environment, or in individuals.
I admit that I’ve been beaten up so many times in films, but we do not fake it – we actually have to fight when we shoot to make it real and to save film and time. Even the props that are not real, like the bats are plastic, but they’re still very hard, so it still hurts.
One-day cricket is about continuity, team ethic, understanding each other’s role, where everybody fields and bats, when and at which end they want to bowl.
Baseball began early for me. When I was 5, my father took two Little League bats and put them on a lathe. He whittled them down and sanded the bats so they were the proper size for my brother and me. He began by throwing tennis balls to us. Eventually, we practiced hitting and fielding at a field near our house.
My uncle used to play cricket. I got used to the game at home. As kids we used to all wonder seeing the bats lying around the house. As we grew older, we realised what the game was all about, and then our interest in the game grew.
I wrote ‘Airborn’ after completing three books about bats. I loved my bats, but what a treat it was to write about humans again. They could eat food other than midges and mosquitoes, they wore clothing, they slept in beds – all this struck me as wonderfully novel.
Most of the people I know in the film business here in New York, the moms and the dads, just take different turns working. So everybody’s a working parent, and nobody bats an eyelash at it.
I remember when we were doing the first Dragon’s Lair, I got really involved with coming up with all the little rooms and what was the danger in the room and going into it with bats and spiders and snakes.
I think I had the smallest handle around. When I got my bats, I even trimmed them down. I used to scrape them. Some years later when I started getting older, I used to start with a 33 and in the summer it got down to 31 and then probably in September got down to 30.
When I get the record, all it will make me is the player with the most hits. I’m also the player with the most at bats and the most outs. I never said I was a greater player than Cobb.
I had been playing for a while, and I asked Louisville Slugger to send me a dozen flame treated bats. But when I got it, I realized they had sent me a box of ashes.
Everybody believed you had to have a big piece of lumber and then muscle the ball over the fence. But by the time I and Hank Aaron – another guy who did it with his wrists – were through, there were a lot of guys ordering light bats and playing handball.
I never blame myself when I’m not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn’t my fault that I’m not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?
While American ballplayers from Mickey Mantle to David Ortiz have flipped their bats, the act is still perceived as a great offense here – an insult to the pitcher, the opposing team and all that’s sacred in America’s pastime.
In many countries, wind turbines pose the single greatest threat to bats after habitat loss and white-nose syndrome.
People have asked me a lot of times, because I didn’t hit a lot, how long a dozen bats would last me. Depending on the weight and model I was using at that time – I would say eight to 10 cookouts.
The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy’s murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out.
Bats have no bankers and they do not drink and cannot be arrested and pay no tax and, in general, bats have it made.
My bats were brilliant. The shape of them changed, and towards the end of my career, they got a little bit bigger.
By the time I wrote ‘Any Given Sunday’ or ‘Bats,’ I sort of knew what my job was in terms of what a writer of dialogue does.
Words can be like baseball bats when used maliciously.
There’s so much in favor of batsmen these days. Fields are small, two new balls, powerplays, bats have got bigger than they used to be, the list can go on.
Like an author, a cricketer signs his name on every innings he bats or bowls in; indeed for every cricket ball that challenges him on the field.
Our family home, a large house in Hampstead, was sold to Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne. I remember being told that ‘someone who eats bats’ was buying it.
I got really hooked on this riff in the middle of this song called ‘Minor Miracles’ by my friend Eric Johnson from Fruit Bats. I got the tracks for that from him, and that turned into ‘Here in Spirit.’
