Bat Quotations | Page 2

I can hit. I feel like I can swing the bat. I just feel like I can't run 100 percent. Swinging the bat is no problem. Just running.

I bit the head off a live bat the other night. It was like eating a Crunchie wrapped in chamois leather.

I broke a bat and found a hole.

I am still a bowler who can bat also. Getting wickets is important for me.

Carlin just wore him down. That was a big league at bat right there.

But that's why, ... when you say 'baseball' you put the word 'team' right after it. In my opinion, I have the best team in this league - from the owner right down to the bat boys.

Bat Out of Hell II: Back Into Hell.

Bat Masterson said he didn't know anybody Wyatt couldn't whip without his guns. A lot of times Wyatt didn't carry guns...because if he carried guns he had to kill somebody - and he would kill somebody - but he didn't want to. He was a very religious man.

Basically I've been struggling all year, so I just wanted to get the bat on the ball and get a base hit. Coach asked before the game if we remembered the end of the football season. It was a good game for us.

Baseball can be slow in many ways. The action starts with when the pitcher delivers the ball. But the action really starts when the crack of the bat happens.

I have a lot of good memories about Kirby. When he used to get a base hit, he'd throw his bat and it'd be flying all over the field. He was a unique player. We need some more players in this age and time coming in the big leagues that play like Kirby.

I had two strikes on me, so I was really just trying to put the ball in play somehow. I got the bat on it and was able to put it through the six hole. Luckily I got a pitch that I could handle.

I had two strikes on me. I just knew I had to come up big somehow. I just put the bat on the ball. I was hustling. I said, 'I've got to beat it out.' It feels great. We know now that we can do this anytime -- just fighting.

I felt I had to (salute the fans), especially to those who were cheering. Unfortunately, I didn't swing the bat well, so I guess I helped the Red Sox.

I feel that we have a better lineup than we're showing. But we have been really struggling the last week and a half. No one in our lineup is swinging the bat well right now. I think some of the guys are trying too hard and good things are just not happening for us right now.

I feel like he's swinging the bat well. I don't want to see him out there at the plate, have three at-bats and maybe be a little tender and maybe do something a little different. We'll give him one more day and hopefully he'll be 100 percent.

I first saw Rudolph in South Africa and I think he made a double ton against us in a tour match. He's always had that potential. He is a pretty decent player. He showed yesterday that he can bat for along time and really knuckle down and save a test match.

I feel pretty good up there. It's fun right now. Everybody on the team is swinging the bat well. We always knew we could get on a roll like this, and, hopefully, here we go.

I feel pretty good, ... To not swing a baseball bat in almost a year, no spring training, and go to a college and hit in a cage for a week and come out here and face major league pitching ... like I try to tell these guys, 'If I give you a little, it's a lot in this stage.'

I feel so great out there, and I love being out there at my natural position. I feel like I've been swinging the bat really well over the past few games.

I feel like I've got my bat speed back.

I feel like I've been blessed with a great family and great parents and all of the opportunities I had growing up. I figured why not see how far I can go. Take a stab and see what happens - swing the bat hard.

I can't even compare walking into that locker room today after this game with the way it was last time, ... We were 1-3 (after the 2003 game). I'm proud of these players today. We got down 7-0, but they didn't bat an eye.

I can't put away my defense. If you're not doing nothing with the bat for one night, you can go 0-for-4 and win the game with your glove.

Give me an easy chair and a glass of tea and I can watch him swing the bat all day long.

Frank laid off some tough pitches and the bat was coming through the zone well. I was very pleased with what he did.

If a scout came up to all of the baseball coaches in the conference and said, 'Here's 100 of the best kids in Missouri,' ... I would probably have to tear that sheet in half. Fifty of them right off the bat academically wouldn't be able to get in.

I expect Marcos to come in, and right off the bat score a lot of goals for us. He is an exciting, fast, attacking player that will make a big impact on our offense.

I expect to see the same guy I did last year. I hope they'll limit him to 30 or 40 games. That first at-bat off Adam Eaton last year was very impressive. The guy hadn't played all year and Eaton was throwing 93-94 and he doubled off the wall. That bat speed is always there.

I expect a lot out of myself. When I swing the bat really well, the boys roll. It's important for me to go out and take responsibility for what I have to do each and every day.

I faced odds when glaucoma took the bat out of my hands. But I didn't give in or feel sorry for myself. I've said it before, and I'll say it again: 'It may be cloudy in my right eye, but the sun is shining very brightly in my left eye.'

From the mental aspect, it's going to help the team morale a lot. You come out off the bat down, 24-0, and it wears the mental edge of the kids down a lot.

I got a gift, he threw me a breaking ball and I just got the bat head to it. I hit it off the pole and Randy made it hold up. This was a big win for us.

If the guys around him are swinging the bat well, he's naturally going to get better pitches to hit. Now he's been overanxious because they're not coming after him. We don't have enough guys around him swinging the bat really well.

He was a pleasant surprise last year. They said his bat was not that good, and he did an outstanding job for us. Defensively, he's good. He plays the game hard, he's a smart kid. I think he's got a chance (to play for the Devil Rays).

He was all right, but the Tigers can make it rough, because they put the bat on the ball. It's no big deal.

He will go down as one of the greats of Western Australian cricket not only for his efforts with the gloves and the bat but also for his leadership and team spirit.

He will bat in the nets tomorrow, and then we will have a better idea of his fitness to play in the first Test.

He takes a big cut. Something can happen when he swings the bat like that. He's red hot.

He's certainly a plus defensive player, and if he ends up showing he can swing the bat ... and he gets his foot in the door, it might be one of those situations where you can't get him out.

He has a gift for putting the barrel of the bat on the ball and he has a passion for doing it. You look at him starting his third year in the big leagues and you can sense the maturity he's found over the last two years. He's a lot calmer and he's playing a lot more in the strike zone.

He had a year that was mind-boggling. And it definitely was not a fluke what he did. When you see him out at the ballpark, you don't look at him as an intimidating person, but you put him with a bat and glove and he becomes an intimidating factor.

He had the knack for being able to put the bat on the ball. They would bring in side-arming left-handers and he'd go up there and stroke the ball the opposite way. If they would hang a breaking ball, he'd hit it out of the ballpark. He was one of the better hitters I've seen.

He had food poisoning at 2 a.m. Monday and was put on the drip in the morning. He has stayed back in his hotel room today so that he could rest and recover, and bat if needed later on Tuesday.

He did a great job. He put the bat on the ball and put it deep, which was what he needed to.

He did the bunt on his own. I have confidence in him to handle the bat and get a ground ball to the right side. He's an unselfish player.

He is a strike-thrower. In (the CPL), if you throw enough strikes and let the wooden bat take care of itself, you will be OK. He keeps the ball down and is a very good fielder.

He hit a home run off Paul Byrd to right-center field when we were playing against him. It's the farthest opposite-field home run I've ever seen a right-handed hitter hit at Safeco Field. It probably went 15 rows back. He did the bat flip and the whole thing. I got to second base later and he told me that was the first hit he ever had off Byrd.

He is not nicknamed 'The Wall' for nothing but, having taken on opening, he may have exposed himself slightly. The new ball can get him out and he tends to play with his bat outside his body to a ball on line with off stump, which can result in an edge. He offers chances early on and they need to be held. For a player of his ability he tends to lose patience against spin.

He is like a sponge, ... He is very receptive and has an outstanding work ethic. We have been working on little mechanical things, like knowing where the barrel of the bat is and trying not to work so hard to get a better swing, and it is making him a more productive hitter. I think he is turning into one of the better second basemen in the league.

He has played very well defensively at third base. He's swinging the bat well. He can add some punch.

He has the ability right now to catch and throw in the big leagues. When his bat comes, he'll come quickly.

He got the fat part of the bat on it. Other than that one pitch, I'm real happy with my performance.

He got a fastball down and in and got a good swing on it. Frank's a young kid and has a lot to learn, but he's swinging the bat well.

He goes through streaks every year, good streaks offensively and defensively. He was very diligent during Spring Training. He's got a great swing path working right now, and just happens to be swinging the bat real well.

He gives us another experienced bat in the lineup. We haven't had him for such a long time. It's nice to have him back in there." ()

He looks to have a good physique for bowling, he can bat as well and he's a good fielder. Hopefully he'll have a good career ahead of him,

He looks the same. I don't see any difference in his bat speed. He got a hanging breaking ball and took advantage of it.

He looks like the same guy he was a few years ago. We're trying to keep him healthy, and so far, so good. He's swinging the bat well, and he's in a good frame of mind. Everything has been positive from him. Hopefully (the injuries) are over with. He's still a definite threat. I think he'll have a great year.

He made nice strides this spring. He just needs to keep making the strides that he made. There was a point in time last season where we were having trouble throwing the ball around the infield. Now he threw the ball accurately, his release times were quick and efficient. I think he swung the bat efficiently. He's using his off-gap again from both sides. He had a good spring.

He'll play until Brady gets back. He's been swinging the bat real well. He can do a lot of things to help you win.

He'll be there, bat third and probably hit two home runs.

He came up and in, and I?m just protecting the plate right there. I did a good job of getting the bat to the ball and got a little help from the wind.

He came out right off the bat and threw strikes and competed well. I think this is a maturing process. The more games like this we get into and see how guys do under fire ... it was really good to see our guys meet the challenge.

Whatever needs to be done, he gets it done. He's a very consistent fielder and makes routine plays pretty much every time -- knock on wood. And he's gotten better with the bat since day one.

The people that own the apartment complexes, businesses, homes they are the ones responsible for bat eradication in their buildings.

We've been trying to work him back in gradually. Him in the order really opens a lot of things up for us offensively. There is so much more we can do with his bat in there.

We told them they had to be aggressive at the plate and play to win and not just play not to lose. The first couple of innings we put the bat on the ball which gave me hope that eventually something would happen and we would string some together and be able to get some runs across the plate.

We're obviously going to be looking for a bat, and everybody is always looking for pitching. It's the typical stuff -- a bat and some pitching.

When he swings the bat well, he?s fun to watch. There?s no better right-handed hitting batter in the league. You could make that case.

When he swings the bat like we've seen the last couple of days, he very well could be that guy.

We've got to where we play pretty good defense. Of course, good pitching makes a good defense, too. I just know that on down the road that bat has to come alive, and that's what I'm working on.

With Mario, every time he goes and tries to dive or something, we're going to hold our breath. But he's 100 percent and playing well. He swung the bat well in spring training. Vega did also. Those two guys will probably be in the middle of the lineup and kind of rely on them for some offensive power, some offensive numbers.

We swung the bat well. We were doing that all year until the last week. We didn't hit the ball at all. We came out today re-focused. I thought our kids, for 6 1/2 innings, did a great job. It ended up not in our favor. I'm happy with the effort, but not happy with the result.

We swung the bat well today. It's a situation where we're trying to get to a point where we get everyone going at the same time, and not just a few guys. We were much better today, absolutely.

We swung the bat well, and put the ball in play. And we also did a good job of stringing those hits together; we had a lot of back-to-back hits in our big innings.

We swung the bat really well. Both of their pitchers are pretty good, but I'm pleased with the way we hit and with the way we had timely hits.

We swung the bat a little bit better than they did today, and that was a difference.

We thought we were ready leaving Spring Training. We were playing very good and swinging the bat good and everybody thought they were where they needed to be.

Today did not go well for us. We lost two very important games but you have to give credit to Miami. They came out there with nothing to lose and swung the bat very well.

What we do when we designate it as a BAT project is that we create a single point of contact for the developers, any local officials and any economic development officials that might be working on that project. They can pick up the phone and talk to one person.

He obviously swings the bat well, he throws well and he's pretty good at catching.

He's a bit disappointed, and justifiably so. Chris is swinging the bat well and I wanted to get (Mike) Lamb in the game. He's swinging the bat well, too.

He's a bat that I think we've got to have in the lineup more often.

He's a great guy and a great player. I loved playing with him. He's a very competitive guy who did a great job handling the pitching staff. He was really swinging the bat well and I think he'll do a great job with the Cubs and have a great year.

He's a good hitter and he's starting to swing the bat well. Whether the guy is struggling at the plate or he's hot, you always want to make your pitches because it can go either way at any time. If he's struggling, he's going to turn it around some time.

Heroics at the end of the game are great, but we should've knocked in those runs earlier in the game when they were on base. I've told the girls they can swing the bat against any pitcher in the league.

For me, personally, he's always shown that he has the tools to catch, swing the bat and do a lot of good things. But the difference is his confidence.

He's a kid who's struggled so much hitting the ball early. It's just been the last three games he's started to swing the bat pretty well.

He's always been able to swing the bat. He's cut out of the Lemke mold. He's like the guys who play for the A's; they swing the bat and play hard.

He's got my utmost support. He's done a lot for me. He's gone to bat for me a lot of times. He's a guy that I respect and he's a guy that I enjoy playing for. I hope everything he wants to happen happens and I hope he's here and he's given another shot, because he can do it.

He's got a very, very difficult job here. He's an all-rounder - he's got to bowl, bat and captain the side.

He's just working it out. He seems to be a lot quieter at the plate. He's getting the head of the bat out in front.

He's been swinging the bat well and driving in runs.

He's been swinging the bat good. He started the season with us because he had such a big Spring Training. We like the kid a lot, and we think he's going to have a good big league career. We're going to give him some playing time this month, and he's taking advantage of it.

He's been rock-solid. He's been steady, solid and strong and he's been swinging the bat good. He's been picking me up a lot lately.

He's got the kind of skills to put the bat on the ball behind him.

He's got some skills, definitely. He's got great range, quickness. His bat has really improved over the last year and a half. Fundamental stuff? There's still a few things he needs to work on. He'll probably get a pretty good shot of that here.

His power comes from his ability to make contact even though he swings the bat as hard as he can. That comes from working hard at the game, working all the time and finally getting to the point where you are comfortable with your swing.

His timing is great. He's putting the barrel of the bat on the ball. He's laying off tough pitches off the plate.