Famous Quotes & Sayings

Billy Williams

It's not easy to win a batting title if your name's not Bill.

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.

In the spring of 1957, Mickey Mantle was the king of New York. He had the Triple Crown to prove it, having become only the 12th player in history to earn baseball's gaudiest jewel. In 1956, he had finally fulfilled the promise of his promise, batting .353, with 52 homers and 130 RBIs. Everybody loved Mickey.

In the end it was a good toss to lose because the wicket got better for batting on the third day.

I'm not surprised at all. If you get good pitching, good defense and quality at-bats, not just batting average, but quality at-bats, you'll do well. They take their at-bats seriously.

In training this week we have talked about the dropped catches, which ruined our chances. The batting of the St Catherine team... they have a good batting line-up with Tamar Lambert and others. They'll be coming gunning. They have won outright, so it should be a good match.

Ichiro Suzuki

In the second half of the 2003 season -- actually, I'd include the 2002 season in this -- I started to struggle as I approached the 200-hit mark. As I got closer to the goal, I lost control of that part of batting and sort of lost focus.

Gary Gaetti

In that regard, it's very important for him to take as close to a full speed batting practice as he can. It looks like he's able to do that now, and I've never seen that before from him.

I never thought we would hit like this. But I'm glad to see that my 400 or so pitches in batting practice and my sore body paid off.

I guess my job, ... is to come out and do well in batting practice.

Joe Torre

His batting practice has been better. Again, it's so tough coming in here as late as he did and being thrown into the mix.

His batting is one of the positives we had from the match. He batted superbly.

Michael Hussey

Hopefully he will go from strength to strength, because he is the lynchpin of our batting order.

I'll go in for a few days and see if the staff has any needs. I'll look at the players to see what progress they're making, see who needs to go up or who might need to be released. I'll even spell the coaches by pitching batting practice. Mostly, though, it's a lot of early work, working on individual skills and needs.

In these mid-week contests, we try to get as many people work as possible and still give ourselves a chance to win. Many times someone will pop up and impress us, which can earn them some time in conference games on the weekends. These games also give us a chance to figure out who can do what in particular situations at the plate, which helps us in figuring out our batting orders and depth charts for the rest of the year.

Jacque Jones

I haven't felt good about my batting average. I'm sick about it. I can't stand it. I know I'm much better than a .250 hitter.

I put it all to music and put it on the scoreboard during batting practice.

Adrian Beltre

I prefer to hit 3-4-5, but I'll do whatever the club needs. I started the season in 2004 hitting seventh, and that didn't work out too bad. By the end of the year I was batting fourth.

I don't know how that's going to work out. That may be one of the things we fight about. I guess it will depend on which batting practice group we're hitting in.

Eric Chavez

I didn't even see Frank's swing. By the time I put down my helmet and my batting gloves and sat down, Milton went deep.

Richie Sexson

I didn't have to drive a half hour to get to a batting cage. It wasn't such a chore to leave the family and go hit. I could go down there at 9:30 at night if I wanted. I just hit a lot more.

Hey. I wasn't real good at math, but I knew how to figure my batting average.

Bowlers did a great job and I am pleasantly surprised at the capitulation of India's strong batting line-up.

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.

Ricky Ponting

The team the West Indies picked was fairly light on with their batting and we knew that if we made some early in-roads that we might be able to go through them reasonably quickly.

The team is starting to put it together. Our pitching and batting have both been a lot better.

The thing is you (pitchers) can't be messing around with the guys in the front of the order. Eventually, it will catch up with you. They could be the best at those positions (in the batting order) in the league.

It's a batting wicket, we can expect lots of runs.

Dav Whatmore

It was our best batting day I can recall in my short time. My feeling is very pleased, I am very happy,

It wasn't (extra batting practice) as much as Hurdle and I looked at some video. There was nothing with my swing, but I had to lower my hands 4, 5 inches.

They're competitors. They don't know how to do it any other way. You have to chase them out of the batting cages a lot of nights.

Tim Kaine

You're not going to have a 1.000 batting average, but the way you get votes is, you just push and you push. I'm not afraid to do that.

Waqar Younis

The Indians have their grey areas. They depend heavily on their strong batting but even then collapse like a pack of cards. They are devastating and poor at times.