Famous Quotes & Sayings

Geoffrey Boycott

To me, this batting line-up is not what it was two years ago in Australia, though the names may be the same.

Graeme Smith

Everyone in the whole team wanted to be positive this morning and go for a win. Cricket itself needs positive games. It doesn't need teams batting out and drawing games.

The batting order will take care of itself in spring training.

The batting is the key. We need to bat better than we did last year.

Dusty Baker

It's not definite, but it's not very possible. I'm open-minded to changes, but that's usually a very accomplished hitter's spot. I never dreamed I'd be batting fifth in my rookie year behind Hank Aaron, either.

It should be a great day of fun for everyone. I encourage coaches that have a game that day to bring their team to get fired up with a competitive batting practice before the game. Everyone that takes part in this benefit will be a winner.

Chipper Jones

Don Baylor used to say, 'Don't take batting practice. Just show up, get dressed, stay loose and go out there, see it, hit it.

Shivnarine Chanderpaul

Everybody came into this game full of confidence, everybody expected us to do well and everybody's disappointed with our performance. On a good batting wicket with our batting lineup, we should have got some more runs on the board.

Luis Gonzalez

It's sore a little bit, but I'm gonna do everything today. Batting practice, ground balls. I'm ready to go.

Dontrelle Willis

I want to get that lineup card because I don't think anybody's going to believe that, ... I was very nervous. I was nervous batting eighth, and I was nervous batting seventh.

Shoaib Akhtar

They'll find a different atmosphere, less bounce, good pitches for batting and it's going to be hard work for the fast bowlers.

Andrew Symonds

It was an important time of the game and to be contributing in that way it would have made me feel good even if I was scoring runs. It was a great relief. Hopefully, I can draw some confidence from my bowling and flow through to my batting here.

Jason Gillespie

It was not very easy, putting your head down and batting in the heat. I think I am developing into an all rounder.

Rahul Dravid

It was a great professional performance from our team. We had four run outs in Pakistan innings that was fantastic. The boys were confident after our bowlers did well and restricted Pakistan to 265 on a good batting wicket.

Curtis Granderson

It was a good thing that I always had to go somewhere today. You were pulled here, pulled there. It was either an interview with someone, or TV, or it was time to stretch, or get to the batting cage.

It's a long haul, but it's a good batting wicket. There is three days to go. Our job is to resurrect the ship, and hopefully if we can get a lead, we can put them in a position where they have to make some running in the game.

Theo Epstein

It's an opportunity for them to get a little bit of big-league experience, see how the guys go about batting practice, ... The way they get their work in. It all fits together. Big league. Instructional league. We're all part of the same organization. These guys are not that far away. Last night is a good example.

David DeJesus

It's getting there. I'm walking and running on the treadmill. I took batting practice on the field the other day and that felt fine.

When half of the team is the pitching staff, there are some intangible things that are important. We can sit here and talk about hitting all we want. But that won't help the other part that is vitally necessary to the success of the Major League team, and that's the interaction that takes place between two guys 60 feet, six inches away from one another. That's just as important as anybody's batting average.

Lynn Coady

Grownups, as a rule, should always be ready to pay for their own meals - or else ready to graciously accept their date's insistence on paying. The point is, one doesn't sit there batting one's eyelashes, fully expecting someone else to claim the bill.

She'll definitely be near the top of the batting order. She gives us some options because she can play anywhere.

It's just his batting style; he doesn't get out of the way.

It's a good thing to have two coaches. One does batting practice while the other does the infield, or whatever.

Greg Chappell

It's a good flat batting wicket with not a blade of grass seen on it.

What he brings to the stage in terms of bowling, batting and fielding is exciting. He's a young guy, got plenty of talent and we're taking the opportunity of including a younger guy to learn as times goes on.

Yuvraj Singh

Obviously, a lot of things play on your mind when you're batting. This might happen and this might not. The best thing you can do when you're batting is not to think too much, and wait for the next ball.

We are always looking for a good cause to help out with and this is nice because it's a big project so it will give some of our apprentices a chance to get some real hands-on experience. I can remember coming here as a kid and using the batting cages in the basement. It is nice to be able to come back and fix it up. It is such a good organization for the community.

Timothy Noah

The federal government does not trample in jackboots those with whom it does business. It wraps them in cotton batting and, when they express ingratitude, apologizes profusely.

We have three teams and 54 kids in the program. To have four batting cages inside, we're really blessed and thankful.

We wanted to make sure that people could get out to see batting practice and take part in all the ceremonies that surround such a special event.

We've done batting practice in Chicago a couple of times in the playoffs, but we haven't considered it regularly. To do it game in and game out, I don't see it.

Pete Rose

In the old days, you know, they didn't have batting cages. And in most ball parks, they only had one runway to the dugout.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Without global human rights, labor and environmental movements, companies would still be hiring 12-year-olds as a matter of course and poisoning our groundwater without batting an eyelid.