I try my best not to get hit. I don’t like getting hit.
I’ve never hit anybody who hasn’t clocked me two or three times.
I look at the Samurai because they were the artists of their time. What I think struck me when I read Bushido is compassion. ‘If there’s no one there to help, go out and find someone to help.’ That hit me, because I try to lead my life like that.
Social topics may hit too close to home for people, but then again, if you pull a heartstring, then that’s what country music is. It’s not just songs about getting drunk and leaving your girl.
I don’t think people are fans of me because I wrote hit songs. I think they’re fans because I’m a lunatic or a weirdo. The hit songs came out of my idiosyncratic personality, not the other way around.
That is what I always said as I don’t want to be one-dimensional; I don’t want to just hit homers or have to walk or bunt to get on base.
Getting ready to wrestle is like getting ready for a car crash. Getting ready to work with Brock Lesnar is like knowing you’re going to get hit by a bus and the bus is going to back over you. If I’m going to work ‘WrestleMania,’ 16 weeks out I have to start training like I’m Mayweather getting ready for a fight.
Too many African countries have already hit rock-bottom – ungoverned, poverty-stricken, and lagging further and further behind the rest of the world each day; there is nowhere further to go down.
Gun control means being able to hit your target. If I have a ‘hot button’ issue, this is definitely it. Don’t even think about taking my guns. My rights are not negotiable, and I am totally unwilling to compromise when it comes to the Second Amendment.
When I hit a home run I usually didn’t care where it went. So long as it was a home run was all that mattered.
You can be the CEO of a big company and still be unhappy. You can also pass an exam and feel like you’ve hit the jackpot. Success all depends on how happy you are.
Yeah, there’s absolutely. I mean, remember when The Searchers came out, it was a relatively big hit for a Western, and I think it made 5 million bucks – I don’t even think it made that.
My goals are to hit .300, score 100 runs, and stay injury-prone.
Madam your wife and I didn’t hit it off the only time I ever saw her. I won’t say she was silly, but I think one of us was silly, and it wasn’t me.
I must tell you, to get started today must be very difficult ’cause whatever it takes today is very tough. They have to invest a million dollars in a video just to see if you have a hit record.
I look for things that are left of center, something you’ve only seen your whole life, but never heard. Hit it! With a stick! I have a guitar made out of a 2×4 that I bought in Cleveland.
When you lose the ability to step up and hit the ball as hard and as far as you want, that also affects your ability to will the ball to go where you want it to go, if you know what I mean.
Now so many really good groups who have had a first major hit can’t get a deal for a second one.
I don’t mind hitting the ball bad, but when I feel like I’ve hit the ball pretty good for four days and shoot an 81, it’s not golf.
I’d seen how ‘Green Book’ had been a box-office hit, but left pianist Don Shirley’s family feeling betrayed because his life and relationships had been distorted.
You can take wonderfully talented actors, wonderfully talented writers and producers, and, uh, do a wonderful show!… but if it doesn’t hit with the public in two minutes, it’s bye-bye.
No one would touch me with a barge pole as an actress. It hit hard. I thought, ‘What am I doing? This is a stupid idea!’ It’s like throwing yourself into a massive pond, and you feel like you’re going to drown so quickly.
But while I was working with my team to conceptualize ‘White Night’, we hit writer’s block and couldn’t come up with a single that I felt would resonate with listeners.
In boxing, you get hit, it’s painful, then you sit on the stool when the adrenaline is gone and you feel that pain. And then you fight the next round.
If there is a flaw in the academy system it’s that they try to tell them everything. Kids are taught the same. They look the same. So you’re constantly looking for the X factor. It’s the hardest thing, that mystical ingredient, instinct, the four-second hit, like/dislike, it can come unbelievably quickly.
In our system, at about 11:30 on election night, they just push you off the edge of the cliff-and that’s it. You might scream on the way down, but you’re going to hit the bottom, and you’re not going to be in elective office.
On vacations: We hit the sunny beaches where we occupy ourselves keeping the sun off our skin, the saltwater off our bodies, and the sand out of our belongings.
In this game of baseball, you live by the sword and die by it. You hit and get hit. Remember that.
I can only hit it one way. I can only hook it.
I actually feel I’m in a much better place than I’ve ever been because I’m thankful people still love the songs that I’ve written, and they seem to like me. And they come to the shows in droves, and they get all excited, and I can still hit all the notes, and I don’t look terrible.
The realization that I may have only a few good years remaining has hit me with real force, and I have done a lot of thinking as a result. I would like to have come up with something profound, but I haven’t.
I can’t do it every day. They’re not going to give me much to hit right now. They’re pitching me real well. If I get there, fine.
When I was in graduate school, I became very interested in why some kids took on challenges and were able to bounce back from setbacks whereas others shy away from difficulty and really crumble when they hit failures. I became fascinated with people who had that kind of courage to take on challenges.
I was born to hit a baseball. I can hit a baseball.
I know I have a hit show on my hands.
You have to know how to read your lie and take a calculated risk when you hit out of the rough.
Football is my base; that’s where I learned to be tough. I was a strong safety, and that’s what I do: I hit people. The mentality is football, the wrestling is precision.
I like to hit it downhill, that’s the way I was taught to run.
Every time you think television has hit its lowest ebb, a new program comes along to make you wonder where you thought the ebb was.
Don’t hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
I think the most successful are the most paranoid. The first thing people do when they buy a mansion is they build the biggest wall you could possibly build around it. What happens is, now you become a target. If I go into the hood, I’m at a disadvantage. They could carry guns. I can’t. They can hit me in the face. I can’t.
I practice kickboxing and Muay Thai right now, like, come on, I’ll take anyone on in the ring. You can punch me in the face all you want, and I’ll hit you back.
These days I travel so much it’s hard to get into a routine. When I’m on the road, I tend to use hotel gyms. When I’m home in L.A., I like to hike and hit the surf. All in all, I try to keep a balanced diet and exercise routine, which has stood me in good stead to date.
I’m not scared of very much. I’ve been hit by lightning and been in the Marine Corps for four years.
I smile too much to be in a gang. I don’t got that ‘hit somebody’ vibe.
Right now I’m still only 25 and I don’t think the maternal bug has hit me yet.
I looked out into the audience, saw dozens of faces I knew well – LGBTQ folks, mostly – all avid comics readers and superhero fans and DC supporters, and it just hit me: Why was this so impossible? Why in the world can we not do a better job of representation of not just humanity, but also our own loyal audience?
You never know what will happen. There is a thing called zeitgeist. You have to hit it.
Never before in modern times has so much of the world been simultaneously hit by a confluence of economic and financial turmoil such as we are now living through.
Pitch me outside, I will hit .400. Pitch me inside, and you will not find the ball.
Fear is a great motivator. Look at what 9-11 has accomplished – My god. It’s slammed the economy, It’s – I can’t even begin to detail all it’s actually done, other than bring down the buildings and hit the Pentagon. It’s stunned the entire nation.
Today the kids that are out now they make a hit record and they put them right out on the stage with 10,000 people out there and they don’t know anything about the business yet.
I don’t like the designated hitter. A guy who plays should be able to catch and hit.
A popular number from the movie Pedda Pedda’ has become an instant hit and the audience is loving it.
I moved back home after graduating from Virginia Tech. And that’s when reality hit. I knew I had to do something. I guess it doesn’t click when you’re that young. I was 19 and had finished college. I got home and had to figure out what I was going to do.
I’ve just been fortunate to havehad a lot of hit records, though Human Wheels doesn’t qualify as a hit record-but it’s really the best single I’ve ever had.
I don’t know if there’s an actors’ slow-pitch softball league I could join. My agency has a team, but they say it would be a conflict of interest for the people they rep to play because I could hit a pop-up and they’d have to drop it on purpose.
