Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

It would only be a coup if the person who is a leader of a party leaves and becomes the leader elsewhere. I mean, what would you settle for if you are a leader of a party and you defect? No. 12 in the batting order? No. 15?

Graeme Smith

The whole team wanted to be positive and wanted to go for a win. Cricket needs positive games. It doesn't need teams batting out and drawing games. For us, as a team moving forward, we're young and we need to be positive. To set a declaration and to try to go for a win was in our minds the only way to play. The negative option never came in.

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.

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.

Michael Hussey

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

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.

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.

Now it's a lot better because the new ballparks, they've got batting cages next to the dugout. We did not hit a ball. Now, hitters go outside the dugout and hit off a tee.

Amy Cook

Defensively, we'll fine. What we're focusing hard on is batting fundamentals in order to become a better team.

Nos. 1-9 in the batting order will move the baseball. Defensively we'll be as solid as we've ever been. Matt can overpower people and keep us in the game with anyone.

Mike Cameron

I've at least got to go get a few innings under my belt, try to get my eyes right. The most important thing is to have batting practice and see how it feels.

Andruw Jones

I wanted to go out there and start something. I felt good in batting practice.

Sometimes you stand back and watch him during batting practice and say, 'Wow, he's only 21,'? He's got it all, everything.

Graeme Smith

Sometimes, when you're batting with an injury, it helps you to focus your mind, and I'm hoping that will be the case. The medical staff would rather I waited until the second Test, but I really want to get out there and play.

Rudy's made himself into a pretty good hitter. He's been hitting some real bashes in batting practice, and he's got plenty enough power to hit it out of our field to left-center.

Charles Thomas

Absolutely. That never gets old no matter what game it is. Honestly I just put in play what we do every day during the second round of batting practice: With guys in, you try to stay up the middle. I just made sure not do too much.

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

Paul Collingwood

As long as I keep batting like that hopefully I can change people's minds.

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.

This guy does a lot of things well. We have to decide where he fits best and where his best development slot is. It's not a matter of where he plays. It's gotten down to a matter of where he hits in the batting order.

This morning was as hard batting as we've had to do in a test match for a long time.

There is nothing wrong with it. Coaches got me back on track. I'm kind of batting double cleanup.

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.

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.