Top 30 Batter Quotes

Fortunately, I was technically skilled, so I didn’t have to bludgeon people, I didn’t have to batter them.

That’s one of the great gifts of this, the greatest of all games, baseball: it allows you, still, to lose yourself in a dream, to feel and remember a season of life when summer never seemed to die and the assault of cynicism hadn’t begun to batter optimism.

I loved baseball. I was a pitcher. I loved being on the mound because I also loved being at the center of the action, the cat and mouse battle with the batter on every pitch. You had to develop grit.

Krispy Kreme claims the ‘batter is the best part.’ Same with an Obama speech. It’s all about what’s on the outside, not what’s inside.

You can batter your guitar, and it won’t distort too much, which is important for me because I play with my hands a lot – I don’t really play with picks.

The pitcher setting up the batter. It’s chess, and you play with it.

I got quite into Spam once, in Korea. On their Thanksgiving, they give boxes of it to their friends. I fry it in batter with herbs wrapped around.

I had a lot of fun playing football and basketball, but deep down, the chess match or cat-and-mouse game between the pitcher and batter in baseball really drew me in. It’s a thinking man’s game, and for me, nothing can compare to that.

A man who gives himself to be a possession of aliens leads a Yahoo life, having bartered his soul to a brute-master. He is not of them. He may stand against them, persuade himself of a mission, batter and twist them into something which they, of their own accord, would not have been.

Baseball skills schizophrenically encompass a pitcher’s, a batter’s and a fielder’s.

As a batter, I would want to see that the best bowler is in my side so I don’t have to face him.

I want to be a high-order batter in the one-day stuff, to play some long innings rather than just go in and have a swipe.

Without action to de-carbonize our economies, unchecked climate change threatens to batter lives and economies around the world, hitting the poorest people hardest.

The toughest thing in hitting shouldn’t be deciding when to swing. It is, for me, deciding when not to swing. You should be swinging from the time you get into the batter’s box until something says don’t swing.

When a batter swings and I see his knees move, I can tell just what his weaknesses are then I just put the ball where I know he can’t hit it.

Number one, from a tackling standpoint, we teach strike zone hits, and we want to hit absolutely as hard as we can in that strike zone, and that’s absolutely what we call a batter in the batters box from the chest all the way down to the knees.

I knew at a young age, whether I was playing baseball or hockey or lacrosse, that my teammates were counting on me, whether it be to strike the last batter out in a baseball game or score a big goal in a hockey game.

AB de Villiers is probably my favorite cricketer, he is an incredible batter and a good friend.

The key characteristics of a tempura-style batter are extreme lightness of color and texture: Good tempura should be pale blond with an extraordinarily lacy, light, and crisp coating.

We may have been born on third base, but we worked like we were starting from home plate. You know: batter up.

There are a lot of food choices in Kyochon, but I personally recommend the double fried chicken and the Soonsal series – deep-fried, boneless chicken breast strips coated in a special rice batter.

It’s not easy for a player who considers him or herself to be a proper batter to then adjust down the order. Put anyone there and the scores won’t necessarily come. You can lose a bit of love for it, too.

I think if a batter’s got the better of you naturally in the back of your mind you can go slightly defensive.

I’ve always been one to want a fair contest between bat and ball even as a batter, so if that’s taken away I don’t think that’s great.

The pitcher has the ball, and nothing happens until he lets go of it. So as the batter, I felt I had to fight for any bit of control I could get. I expected the umpire, the catcher, and the pitcher to wait on me. I wanted to get ready on my time.

Here are the facts: when Eric Bischoff came to work for WCW as a ‘clean up batter’ on the announce team working alongside Tony Schiavone, I came with a guaranteed contract.

Everybody in the league knew I had trouble with the inside pitch. I got away with it only because the great majority of pitchers were afraid of making a mistake in that spot. The threat of power is one of the best weapons you have in the batter’s box.

I used to eat the batter raw. My sister would make it and I’d lick the bowl and then I started to get it off the shelf and whip it up and eat it with a spoon.

It’s not really part of the game to say, ‘Oh, it’s a batter’s game; it’s a batter’s game’ – I don’t know why it goes on. It’s a beautiful game that’s greatly competitive between bat and ball.

As a batter, I just try to put myself in a bubble, not letting anything in from the outside, looking only at how many runs I can score.