Batting Quotes
Batting Quote of the day
What Strauss is going through drives you nuts. If you care about your batting - which I'm sure he does - he will feel like jumping off a bridge and committing suicide
Test cricket is bloody hard work, especially when you've got Sachin batting with what looks like a three metre wide bat.
To cure a batting slump, I took my bat to bed with me. I wanted to know my bat a little better.
I'm still batting away on my politics for the Labour Party. I'm much further to the left of them than I used to be, but that's because they've moved, not me.
Maybe I'm delusional but I'm usually funny. It's not 100% but I have a pretty good batting average.
On the top of the batting list we have pinned our hopes on the Dilshan-Thirima nne combination as they have been putting the runs on the board whenever they have been entrusted with the opening slot.
All baseball fans can be divided into two groups: those who come to batting practice and the others. Only those in the first category have much chance of amounting to anything.
I think we've been a lot more disciplined with our bowling. Our batting at times has been more disciplined as well.
My batting average has been good, so people ask how much luck is involved. I tell them when I work 14 hours a day, 7 days a week, I get lucky.
He has defined cricket in his fabulous, impeccable manner. He is to batting what Shane Warne is to bowling.
He (Mickey Mantle) should lead the league in everything. With his combination of speed and power he should win the triple batting crown every year. In fact, he should do anything he wants to do.
To me, form is not about scoring runs but how you feel about your game. Sometimes the runs are not there, but you know you are batting well, and that is good form for me.
I've been taking batting practice in my barn where nobody can see me, so I may be better than anyone thinks.
I never had a coach teach me, my style of batting, nor do I believe in coaching at an international level.
I never keep a scorecard or the batting averages. I hate statistics. What I got to know, I keep in my head.
I had a .200 lifetime batting average in the major leagues, which tied me with another sports great averaging 200 or better for a ten-year period: Don Carter, one of our top bowlers.
My own tastes happen to be in tune with what the public wants. I think that's the reason my batting average is so high, not because I've discovered some brilliant formula.
Sometimes I need to look at the scoreboard to figure out whether I'm batting hundred-plus or whether I am on zero.
If I had done everything I was supposed to, I'd be leading the league in homers, have the highest batting average, have given $100,000 to the Cancer Fund and be married to Marie Osmond.
Our prep's not going to be any different. It will be optional batting practice like there was today. I don't want any more work. I don't want extra study.
As for my batting, the best part about it is I have never changed it. I have never changed my thinking, I have never changed my batting style.
If Trescothick had tried to get me off the field when batting well, I'd have hit him with my bat.
We're not going to have a perfect batting average and it's important that Americans understand that.
A run is more difficult to make than no save, because batting is in its nature a far less certain and reliable thing than bowling and fielding.
I never realized that batting a little ball around could cause so much commotion. I now know how (Charles) Lindbergh must have felt when he returned from St. Louis.
I've learned that getting what you want gives you a pretty high batting average, and leaves you plenty to struggle for.
The Indian bowlers picked me for sledging when I was batting well. They called me school boy. But I was enjoying it and I had answered it with my bat.
We devote our entire lives to becoming good ball players. We take batting practice until our hands bleed.
It is difficult batting in artificial light with a red ball but it's a horrible task for umpires to make a judgment.
Sachin was so focused. He never looked like getting out. He was batting with single-minded devotion. It was truly remarkable. It was a lesson.
You throw batting practice, you warm up pitchers, you sit and cheer. You do whatever you have to do to stay on the team.
I was in the hockey team in school, played football. One of the challenges for me was to make the team feel better. It helped me evolve, so batting at different positions was never a problem.
You can never have a thousand percent batting average on jokes - it's just never going to happen.
My desires are simply I love to teach, I love to be in uniform, I love to throw batting practice, I love to be with the kids.
Commit all your crimes when Sachin is batting. They will go unnoticed because even the Lord is watching.
Most institutional investors feel compelled to swing at almost every pitch and forgo batting selectivity for frequency.
I don't want to take anything away from Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle. They're both great hitters, but they're batting against guys they never would have seen in previous years.
I rarely hit home runs in batting practice, and usually when I do feel that good, I'll have a bad game.
