Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Paul Wilson

No real batting talent came through and I don't think he looked hard enough within his own squad or within the state for the players that could have improved,

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.

Luis Gonzalez

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

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.

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.

Rahul Dravid

It will be a high scoring match and team batting first should post a total in excess of 250 runs.

Jacques Kallis

It's a wicket that goes around a bit and then becomes a good batting wicket.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

He can fill various positions in the batting order as we've seen. He's opened for Queensland, and he can bat in the middle.

If Grace stomps to the clubhouse, fires his batting helmet, ... I'm probably going to lose every veteran on the team.

If I know who I'm batting after, who's batting before me, I can better prepare for what I'm going to need to do or what's going to be expected of me in my at bat.

I definitely want to build my batting average. I also think I can start running more this year. I've always wanted to be put in that position and to hit and run more.

Brad Wilkerson

I feel all right, my swing just doesn't feel quite right. In batting practice you can get away with a lot of stuff, but a game is different. I just want to get it calmed down and have the feeling mentally that I can go out and perform.

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.