The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.
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Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit softly
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting, but never hit soft.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed." - Theodore Roosevelt
THEODORE ROOSEVELT You can't plan on hitting the ball soft. He threw it soft, so I hit it soft. They were catching the ...
EMIL BROWN It's not hard. When I'm not hitting, I don't hit nobody. But when I'm hitting, I hit anybody.
WILLIE MAYS [Pinch-hitting] is not easy, but you do the best you can. You've got to go up there ready to hit.
TIM SALMON It doesn't matter what I'm hitting now, it's what I'm hitting at the end of the year. I want to hit ...
JULIO LUGO Theodore Roosevelt said Do what you can, with what you have, right where you
are. This is great advi...
BRIAN TRACY We hit the ball hard, but the ball would not fall for us today. We kept hitting it at the shortstop.
DAVE ORZEL If I can hit the ball the way I want to hit it on the range, I'd rather do that than play golf. ...
VIJAY SINGH I like that you have to shape shots. For instance, on the par-5 second, you absolutely have to hit a...
BRAD FAXON It's really the hitting at this point; if we can't hit, we won't score.
COLLEEN PERRY I'm trying to be like the old Roc- A-Fella and Bad Boy, influencing people culturally but having...
HIT-BOY Jay-Z called me onstage during my song that I produced for 'Watch the Throne?' That was surr...
HIT-BOY Their pitcher was good but again, we're not hitting the baseball. When we do, we hit it right at peo...
MARK PERCY Suitland has never been hit like we hit them. We knew we had to bring it to them. We worked all week...
MATT REID Teddy Roosevelt had handpicked Taft as his successor, and when Teddy Roosevelt tells you to do somet...
DANIEL O'BRIEN Ridicule is one of the favorite weapons of wickedness, and it is sometimes incomprehensible how good...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Right here let me make as vigorous a plea as I know how in favor of saying nothing that we do not me...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT You can always hit up Willie Horton for [hitting tips].
DMITRI YOUNG I feel like a Bull Moose.
- Theodore Roosevelt,
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Hale has been hitting well all year. She really hit it well today.
CLIFFORD KIRK Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY The kids work hard on their hitting. It's not just in practice, but they go different places and wor...
CRAIG WINTER Not to be provoked is best; but if moved, never correct till the fume is spent; for every stroke our...
WILLIAM PENN You need to be hitting it to a green with a flag stick, not a bucket. I mean, it helps that we can h...
BOB REED I don't know how it didn't go in. That was probably the best putt I hit all day, as far as (hitting ...
CHRIS DIMARCO We didn't hit some of the shots that we are used to hitting. It happens. We gave it our all, and tha...
ALISA KRESGE I think the course is fair. If you hit the fairways and hit the greens, you can shoot a good score. ...
JAY SNYDER I would not admire hitting against Ryne Duren, because if he ever hit you in the head you might be i...
CASEY STENGEL In a perfect scenario, you'd have Joe hitting sixth. But if it's not perfect, I could see him hittin...
JIM TRACY If you're hitting .300, it means you're seeing the ball and getting a good pitch to hit.
XAVIER NADY If you can do it, why you won't do it???
If you have chance why you won't use it?
DEYTH BANGER If Obama's vision of the public sector is socialism, then so too were the visions of Theodore Ro...
JEFF GREENFIELD I'm just trying to hit it, that's it. I was told a long time ago when I first came up, we're produce...
TROY GLAUS I'm all about whatever it takes for us to win. If that's hitting Eli Manning in the mouth, then we'l...
DONNIE EDWARDS An act of violence, no matter how small, can never be justified if it can be avoided.
KAMAND KOJOURI These guys grew up hitting it hard and wanting to hit it hard. You can always learn to temper it. It...
BRIAN CRAIG To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and whatever you hit call it the target.
ASHLEIGH He pitched very well. He was hitting his spots and the hits he did give up were not hit solid. As a ...
LINDSAY MCCARGAR Both teams hit the ball very well, and I don't know if that's attributed to good hitting or not grea...
JEFF AUVINEN I was never angry at the way I was hit. I think it was a very clean hit, actually a great hit by Den...
JEREMY ROENICK It's like hitting the lottery. We've got more tickets than everybody, but you've still got to hit.
DOYLE BRUNSON The shots they were hitting was like getting hit in the stomach.
STEVEN SMITH Books are the ammunition of life.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Yet there was no doubt that Theodore Roosevelt was peculiarly qualified to be President of all the p...
EDMUND MORRIS If you can do that - if you run, hit, run the bases, hit with power, field, throw and do all other t...
WILLIE MAYS I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat, and if it keeps up, I change bats. ...
YOGI BERRA It hit me when I got out there what we were trying to do. Everything kind of hit me at once, and I n...
JENNY PETRIE When Jill and Claire hit, everybody seems to hit the ball. We get runners on, but then nobody follow...
AMY COOK Really the last couple of times out we've really done a much better job of pitch selection with our ...
BRIAN MORRISON I think you start hitting home runs, and you start getting caught up in seeing how far you can hit t...
VERNON WELLS As soon as she hit the curb, she panicked. She misapplied hitting the brakes and hit the accelerator...
ROBERT BURKE If you like wide-open spaces and a sense of the Old West and pioneering spirit, there's Theodore Roo...
AL NASH We know we can hit a lot better than that. Coach Graham talks about [situational hitting] all the ti...
BRIAN FRIDAY Suppan brings consistency, but he needs to start hitting home runs, ... It's exciting. It's always e...
LARRY WALKER We hit the ball real well, but we hit it right to them every time. They just made the plays every ti...
EDWARD JOHNSON I remember the first time I stepped into the ring at age 16. I loved hitting things... but who likes...
MANDY BUJOLD The men with the muck-rake are often indispensable to the
well-being of society, but only if they k...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The girls stayed in there and they fought. I thought we hit the ball all over the place both games. ...
JANET CHARTNEY It didn't hit the vehicle at all.
BILL TOOHEY We just came out hitting. We hit today. We did things we needed to do.
BART MCAFEE Watching guys hit the long ball, and hitting the long ball, is intoxicating.
PETER JACOBSEN Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.
BABE RUTH The United States has a long tradition of preserving the all-American outdoor experience, dating bac...
SARAH HUCKABEE SANDERS He hit it good enough. The wind is a little bit different in this stadium, and it kind of slid off t...
JOHN FOX If I have a hit, then I hope the people who like the hit song go out and buy my album so they can he...
CHELY WRIGHT When you only get one hit and you don't score a run, there's nothing you can do about it on defense ...
BETH BEHRINGER Our hitting was slacking. Today we picked it up. I'm proud of the kids. I've been barking at the kid...
CHRIS SCHUSTER Brett was hitting his spots. They just hit the ball.
LARRY MILLIGAN To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and call whatever you hit the target
ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT If he keeps making plays like that, ... he's not going to have to hit at all.
MIKE HARGROVE I can jog fine, ... but I'm not going to hit a home run all the time.
ARAMIS RAMIREZ If you do hit someone, it could be as bad as reckless homicide if the person is killed by that.
SGT. JUDY PHILLIPS If they hit the ball out, they'd say "Sorry." If they hit it in but too hot for me to handle, they'd...
JOHN CROSBY We do expect a catastrophic type storm to hit us. It is not going to be as bad as Katrina, but if it...
FRANK GUTIERREZ We're pretty good at putting bunts down and really good at hitting. I know as a pitcher, when yo...
JACOB DEGROM We're just struggling with our hitting. You can give up a few runs if you can hit the ball, but we j...
CARL FULLER I almost never hit a shot all out, and I make a conscious effort to swing my long clubs just as I do...
ERNIE ELS If this country is really to go forward along the path of social and economic justice, there must be...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT We are hitting targets similar to those hit yesterday,
RICHARD MYERS They (Boys and Girls Club) were excited to be out there on the course hitting. All the kids were abl...
ALAN FOWLER If he can hit, he can hit. I don't care if he came from Class Z league,
FRANK ROBINSON I should not let anything like that frustrate me. I feel like I'm the caliber of player who can hit ...
HANK BLALOCK I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bat...
YOGI BERRA She's hitting the ball two miles (now). She could hit it five miles. That's exciting.
JAMI LIND He came really close to hitting me. If he would have hit me, we would have fought.
JAMONT GORDON Definitely my iron play. I haven't been hitting the ball close for a while and this week I've been h...
DUFFY WALDORF I'm pitching like [ineffectively]. There's no explanation. They've been hitting my best stuff. No ex...
JOSE MESA Pedro is hitting good pitches. He is a talented kid that if he gets strikes he is able to hit the ba...
TIM CORBIN We haven't been able to put together all facets (hitting, pitching and defense) of the game yet. One...
MATT ADAMS She?s such a great ball striker, ... and if it?s in her hitting zone, she?s going to hit a winner al...
DANIELA HANTUCHOVA Another clutch hit. That was a nice piece of hitting.
TIM FUNKHOUSER Here, the hitting coach said see the ball and hit it, and swing how you want to. That's what I'm doi...
MIGUEL OLIVO We've got some kids who can hit and they're starting to come around a little bit. I've had coaches t...
JEFF SCHULKENS I don't think there is anything particularly wrong in hitting a woman, though I don't recommend you ...
SEAN CONNERY He just hit a shot. It was contested and he hit the shot. Nothing you can do. We were in what we wan...
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THEODORE ROOSEVELT The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Believe you can and you're halfway there.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves wh...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The government is us; we are the government, you and I.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT I am a part of everything that I have read.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first i...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and sel...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT We despise and abhor the bully, the brawler, the oppressor, whether in private or public life, but w...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Believe you can and you're halfway there.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and f...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT With self-discipline most anything is possible.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT If you've got them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The reason fat men are good natured is they can neither fight nor run.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The only tyrannies from which men, women and children are suffering in real life are the tyrannies o...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don'...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly I can!" - and get busy and find out...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Put out the light.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer "Present" or "Not ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Do what you can with what you have where you are.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT