Bat Quotes - page 2

I had immediate success in the sense that I sold something right off the bat. I thought it was going to be a piece of cake and it really wasn't. I have drawers full of - or I did have - drawers full of rejection slips. (Fred Saberhagen)
Alright, macho babe boy, I'm not some little ditz to bat my eyelashes at the buff stud in black leather. Don't try your he-man tactics with me. I'll have you know, in my office, I'm known as the ball-breaker. (Amanda) View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
(At the back of the cave, Phoebe placed her hand against one of the stones where a spring release opened an elevator door. Chris gave an over exaggerated gape.) Holy Hand Grenade, Batman, it's a bat cave. (Chris) View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
You really want to know what being an X-Man feels like? Just be a smart bookish boy of color in a contemporary U. S. ghetto. Mamma mia! Like having bat wings or a pair of tentacles growing out of your chest. View quote
Junot Diaz
Hey there. Here's something familiar, a bat. Hope you like it. View quote
Koushun Takami
We are starting off with our own different characters and our own laws and everything, looking at Bruce Wayne and how he came to be the person that he was and how he comes to be this man that jumps around in the Bat suit. View quote
Christian Bale
What the hell kind of man decides to dress up as a bat and run around the city? There's got to be something a little bit loose in there. View quote
Christian Bale
We found that just by the way we stood, affected women dramatically, and if you look at our show, you'll see that we always stood with our legs open our fists on hips and our bat bulges forward, which had a profound effect on women! View quote
Burt Ward
I am not a bat. ~Rephaim. View quote
P. C. Cast
Bat, pigeon, ravens - I don't care about distinctions right now. Any fluttery, flappy thing is not cool with me. View quote
P. C. Cast
The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball. (Bill Veeck)
It's a pretty sure thing that the player's bat is what speaks loudest when it's contract time, but there are moments when the glove has the last word. View quote
Brooks Robinson
Yes, I was in that game where George Brett hit that home run. Billy saw there was too much pine tar on the bat and he went to the umpire, the next thing we knew they were fighting about it. View quote
Bert Campaneris
I like to think of the world's greatest athlete coming up to bat against me - Tiger Woods, Wayne Gretzky, I don't care who it is - and I'm looking at him thinking, you have no chance. View quote
David Cone
I've got a right to knock down anybody holding a bat. View quote
Early Wynn
When I was a kid, I dreamed of using a bat with my own name on it. View quote
Jennie Finch
I am a lefty, though I bat right-handed... When I was a kid I pitched, played first, outfield and shortstop as well. Now it's mainly softball with some friends. View quote
Josh Charles
As far as sleeping goes, you're up and ready to go at six in the morning. Spring training was always a combination of relaxing and working, and I missed that quite a bit. I missed being around the ball field. A baseball. A bat. The smell of the uniform, you might say. Talking baseball. Seeing opponents as well as the Cubs. View quote
Lou Boudreau
No one hit home runs the way Babe (Ruth) did. They were something special. They were like homing pigeons. The ball would leave the bat, pause briefly, suddenly gain its bearings, then take off for the stands. View quote
Lefty Gomez
You surprise yourself on some balls off the bat. You don't think you have a chance to catch it. And then your natural ability just takes over. View quote
Mike Trout
Well, the studios don't really want to take those risks right off the bat. They'll take the risk after they've seen the finished product and say oh yeah we want that. This is a great film but they are hesitant to take the risk when you just see it on paper. (Nia Long)
It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square. View quote
Pete Rose
When you play this game twenty years, go to bat ten-thousand times, and get three-thousand hits, do you know what that means? You've gone zero for seven-thousand. View quote
Pete Rose
Hitting a baseball well, as in cricket, is a very rare skill. One of most difficult things to do in the world to do, hitting a ball coming at you at ninety miles an hour with a round bat. Wonderful to watch. View quote
Peter Tork
To cure a batting slump, I took my bat to bed with me. I wanted to know my bat a little better. View quote
Richie Ashburn