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JOSH STERN That was a great at-bat. You never know if that has anything to do with the next guy, but when a guy...
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I am an arm hitter. When you snap the bat with your wrists just as you meet the ball, you give the b...
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DAVID LENEVEU I'll be happy for every at-bat that I get. You can't do anything without a chance. The more playing ...
JEFF FIORENTINO He's always there. You never have to ask him twice to do something. He's just a great kid. He's aggr...
VICKI BROWNING He's a great hitter, and he's got that kind of pop in his bat.
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I figure if I beat (Singh), there might be a small golden rainbow out there. And I did. You know, is...
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I'm not a great positive thinker. By that I mean I prepare for things that can go wrong. In golf, if...
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Sometimes, you're able to create a very distinct voice ... from just the pace of their speech. Did y...
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JEFF MANTO Everybody was a little worried at first with the whole guys not swinging the bat, but you know what,...
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There has always been a saying in baseball that you can't make a hitter, but I think you can imp...
TED WILLIAMS You go up there every time. Just like you guys have families, if you're at the game and you turn aro...
MAURICE TAYLOR Roanoke Rapids just put a bat on the ball, and our defense didn't make plays; you can't fault the pi...
BRANDY FRAZIER You can't think about how you beat somebody in the past. Every year, you've got to prepare just like...
GERRIS WILKINSON There's no question that 600-pound gorilla was in the room that no one wanted to talk about. If you ...
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I tried to find a way to go on. I could see familiar traces of the path that was my life, but there ...
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They really are something else together."
"Something else? That's the nice way of saying ...
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TED WILLIAMS Knowing that a team is better than you and they beat you, you can live with that. We just beat ourse...
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RAHEEM ASKIA The town I grew up in was at least fifty percent Jewish, so every weekend in the 7th grade, we went ...
VANESSA BAYER We know that this league is always going to be tough. You have to come to play every night, and if y...
CURT DEHAAN![]()
If you can control a man’s thinking, you don’t have to worry about his actions. If you can deter...
CARTER G. WOODSON If you can control a mans thinking, you dont have to worry about his actions. If you can determine w...
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If you can control a mans thinking, you dont have to worry about his actions. If you can determi...
CARTER G. WOODSON My family was near here, so I could see them and brew at the same time. You can?t beat that.
CHRIS MILUM I can take a full swing and once in a while feel a sting, but it goes away. I regain my strength and...
SCOTT ROLEN I was crying. It was like my momma beat me with a bat. I couldn't get up.
JAREICA HUGHES Be silent!" shrieked the beldame.
"I won't!" said Cap. "Because you see, if we are in for...
E.D.E.N. SOUTHWORTH Time is so important.'so spend time doing something that you love.' make the most of it and Let the ...
NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO When you do well at an audition, it is the highest high you can achieve because you just beat yourse...
MADELINE ZIMA![]()
In my opinion, there was not a more feared hitter in baseball. When he walked to the plate and stare...
WADE BOGGS They beat you down and beat you up ... to see if you can handle all the stuff you're going to encoun...
VINCENT ARLOTTI![]()
Everyday somebody dies... in combat, in war in battle... in game everwhere... so far nowhere is safe...
DEYTH BANGER If I know who I'm batting after, who's batting before me, I can better prepare for what I'm going to...
LANCE THOMPSON I can tell you that she can beat a couple of those younger kids. They're not great swimmers, but she...
BILL HALPIN You always worry about (the future) because there is no security in this business. I'm not saying it...
DIRK JOHNSON They beat us in every way you can get beat.
BRAD VANNEMAN
SAM BERG The pitches were different, the approaches were different. The pitch today was in a different place ...
KHALIL GREENE One game, one pitch can change everything for a hitter. The way I like to approach it is that every ...
ANTHONY RIZZO They don't go through the grind others do defensively, diving after balls, chasing balls, if you mak...
JOSH TOWERS When you're a player, one at-bat can definitely get you thinking. One swing can get you right.
CHARLIE MANUEL
It happens a lot in the middle innings because it's the second time through the lineup and everybody... JOSH STERN That was a great at-bat. You never know if that has anything to do with the next guy, but when a guy...
PHIL GARNER If you're free of mechanical thoughts and free of knowing that your body and bat are going to be...
BEN ZOBRIST The big one is confidence. A lot of the time they (need reminding they) can play the game, that we'r...
CAMERON LING The thing about baseball is, it takes one pitch to change a game. He just got the bat head out. Ever...
JAMES ADKINS
I am an arm hitter. When you snap the bat with your wrists just as you meet the ball, you give the b... ZACK WHEAT People are always talking about momentum, but I don't believe in momentum. Momentum changes with one...
BOB BOONE Its the 11th inning, man. You've got to bring your 'A' game, like I always say, ... I just wanted to...
DAVID ORTIZ Offensively, we have to start from the beginning any way you can and as soon as you can. If you have...
COLT SEDBROOK Man, see, you should have picked up that bat and baseball and learned to play the game when we were ...
KIRBY PUCKETT As far as sleeping goes, you're up and ready to go at six in the morning. Spring training was al...
LOU BOUDREAU I have an Alka Seltzer bat. You know, plop plop fizz fizz. When the pitcher sees me walking up there...
ANDY SLYKE I have an Alka Seltzer bat. You know, plop plop fizz fizz. When the pitcher sees me walking up there...
ANDY VAN SLYKE
When you beat Argentina like that and play so well you start to think you can beat anyone. It is pro... STEVEN GERRARD
That's one of the great oddities of baseball: Success is relative. A hitter who fails 70 percent... DON YAEGER
Ninety-nine percent of pilots that go up never have engine failure, and the 1 percent that do usuall... CORY LIDLE Porter's a great pitcher. He's a guy that we can rely on to face a hitter at any time. Coach Mac wen...
BRIAN JEROLOMAN
If you're going to write an anthem for an old man who's up at political bat for the last tim... SHAWN AMOS We were chipping away inning by inning. The girls have been in that situation before, we beat Colema...
BRYAN WALLER You keep that in the back of your mind, but at the same time it's something you can't worry about as...
DAVID LENEVEU I'll be happy for every at-bat that I get. You can't do anything without a chance. The more playing ...
JEFF FIORENTINO He's always there. You never have to ask him twice to do something. He's just a great kid. He's aggr...
VICKI BROWNING He's a great hitter, and he's got that kind of pop in his bat.
JAROD INGERSOLL I have more energy at the end than I do at the beginning. You can be so beat up that you can scarcel...
DAVE BRUBECK I just think, in the playoffs, it's a matter of executing. Every team comes in even and you start th...
ED PULTZ We learned that if you organize at the grass roots, you can beat the big boys.
CAROLYN BOYLE There's just something special about this place. You can feel it every time you come in the gym. I d...
JAKE WOHLFEIL When you have an at-bat like that, it wears the pitcher. It sets the tone. It helps the whole psyche...
BILL WRIGHT No matter what you hear, do not go into the Forest. If you hear something, or someone, in there... d...
EMORY R. FRIE
Writing is something that you don't know how to do. You sit down and it's something that happens, or... CHARLES BUKOWSKI If you go into a fight thinking your going to lose. Just turn around and walk away because you just ...
ANTHONY MCDDANIEL
You know the amazing thing? I love Henry Aaron . I think he's a wonderful guy and a great credit for... BABE RUTH When I got up to bat (in the sixth), there was no doubt in my mind I was going to hit the ball. It's...
CAROLYN ROGERS
I think there's something wrong with me - I like to win in everything I do, regardless of what i... DEREK JETER It's easier to stay on top when you're a team that's there and established. It's hard to break throu...
TOM ARLIS When I started in professional baseball, I had what you might call a rude awakening. See this scar r...
BILLY HERMAN
Every pitcher can beat you, it doesn't matter how good you are. BARRY BONDS It is more nerve-wracking going in there than going out to bat. At least you have an idea what to ex...
IAN BELL You cant change what happened in the past. But you can do something in the future to compensate for ...
SAVIN GAMALATH She looked at that (final at-bat) as a chance to make something happen. That's what mental toughness...
CAROL HUTCHINS Yeah, he's the type of hitter that when he gets the bat on the ball it's going to go.
DERRICK LANDRUS That first at-bat was real big just to give her the confidence, to know that she can play here.
FRANK BONACCI I've always believed that if you had a fellow who works 150 percent of the time, he's going ...
BERT LANCE That's an unbelievable team that we just beat, ... and it's just a great feeling right now and it ju...
CRAIG BIGGIO I just didn't press. Every time I got out, Coach Horton stayed positive with me. I came up that last...
KURT SUZUKI We got so many good teams (in the region). You can almost assume that three spots are sewn up. It ma...
RUSSELL HENDERSON
The curious thing about being told to sleep on it - a phrase which here means, as I'm sure you know,... LEMONY SNICKET Once you get to state, anybody can beat anybody. It's just a time when you get teams going beyond 10...
JOEL QUICK It's tough to stay sharp getting one at-bat as a pinch-hitter. It's a totally different approach whe...
MARK BELLHORN
I figure if I beat (Singh), there might be a small golden rainbow out there. And I did. You know, is... FRED COUPLES [A victory could] mean a lot of things. It can mean we beat the No. 1 team in the country. It can me...
D.J. OWENS Food Allergies Are Not Due to Food, Rather Are Due to the Constant Contamination of That Food That Y...
THEHEALTHFOODGURU
I'm not a great positive thinker. By that I mean I prepare for things that can go wrong. In golf, if... BOB KNIGHT You just have to go to bat and take a swing. And if you're not right for a part, or it goes to a...
TANYA FISCHER
Sometimes, you're able to create a very distinct voice ... from just the pace of their speech. Did y... JIM DALE I've got nothing but respect for (Vanderbilt), Coach (Tim) Corbin and his staff. That's an outstandi...
CHRIS FINWOOD
In the past, the perception that something has a premium price point has led to the demise of the pl... JOHN TAYLOR If you make decent pitches to him, you give him respect because you know he'll swing at anything. Yo...
JAMIE MOYER The good part is you know that you can beat that team, but on the other side, you know they'll come ...
ANDREW COSTON
Here is one fact 1 minute to finish the class, 1 day to die, one day behind that fact, one day in th... DEYTH BANGER
All I can think about is how fucked up it would be for your life to end here, now. I mean I know tha... GAYLE FORMAN I thought playing at Carolina would be a lot better and I went with it. Every time I get in there, I...
DREW MARTIN He's such a natural hitter. He works at it, don't get me wrong. You can't not work at it and be succ...
JEFF MANTO Everybody was a little worried at first with the whole guys not swinging the bat, but you know what,...
KEVIN MILLAR
There has always been a saying in baseball that you can't make a hitter, but I think you can imp... TED WILLIAMS You go up there every time. Just like you guys have families, if you're at the game and you turn aro...
MAURICE TAYLOR Roanoke Rapids just put a bat on the ball, and our defense didn't make plays; you can't fault the pi...
BRANDY FRAZIER You can't think about how you beat somebody in the past. Every year, you've got to prepare just like...
GERRIS WILKINSON There's no question that 600-pound gorilla was in the room that no one wanted to talk about. If you ...
PHIL GARNER
A baseball bat could not have hit me harder than that smile did. I was sixteen years old. In that ti... JERRY SPINELLI Certainly you can't do anything before charges have been laid, but I can assure you that if they fac...
CHRIS ELLISON
I tried to find a way to go on. I could see familiar traces of the path that was my life, but there ... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN
They really are something else together.""Something else? That's the nice way of saying ...
J. LYNN
There has always been a saying in baseball that you can't make a hitter, but I think you can improve... TED WILLIAMS Knowing that a team is better than you and they beat you, you can live with that. We just beat ourse...
JAYSON SWAIN
If someone wants to lead a double life, they will find a way to do it. And they can promise you thin... STEPHANIE KLEIN Swagger is not something you can buy, nor is it something that you can try, and if you don't have it...
RAHEEM ASKIA The town I grew up in was at least fifty percent Jewish, so every weekend in the 7th grade, we went ...
VANESSA BAYER We know that this league is always going to be tough. You have to come to play every night, and if y...
CURT DEHAAN
If you can control a man’s thinking, you don’t have to worry about his actions. If you can deter... CARTER G. WOODSON If you can control a mans thinking, you dont have to worry about his actions. If you can determine w...
CARTER WOODSON
If you can control a mans thinking, you dont have to worry about his actions. If you can determi... CARTER G. WOODSON My family was near here, so I could see them and brew at the same time. You can?t beat that.
CHRIS MILUM I can take a full swing and once in a while feel a sting, but it goes away. I regain my strength and...
SCOTT ROLEN I was crying. It was like my momma beat me with a bat. I couldn't get up.
JAREICA HUGHES Be silent!" shrieked the beldame.
"I won't!" said Cap. "Because you see, if we are in for...
E.D.E.N. SOUTHWORTH Time is so important.'so spend time doing something that you love.' make the most of it and Let the ...
NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO When you do well at an audition, it is the highest high you can achieve because you just beat yourse...
MADELINE ZIMA
In my opinion, there was not a more feared hitter in baseball. When he walked to the plate and stare... WADE BOGGS They beat you down and beat you up ... to see if you can handle all the stuff you're going to encoun...
VINCENT ARLOTTI
Everyday somebody dies... in combat, in war in battle... in game everwhere... so far nowhere is safe... DEYTH BANGER If I know who I'm batting after, who's batting before me, I can better prepare for what I'm going to...
LANCE THOMPSON I can tell you that she can beat a couple of those younger kids. They're not great swimmers, but she...
BILL HALPIN You always worry about (the future) because there is no security in this business. I'm not saying it...
DIRK JOHNSON They beat us in every way you can get beat.
BRAD VANNEMAN
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