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Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.

I'm a man of different types of flavors and tastes. I like listening to things that inspire me. Older music, when instruments were being played, not just people hitting buttons. It's manlier. You're touching things to make sounds appear.

For me, the worst part of playing golf, by far, has always been hitting the ball.

Whenever I've been well-known or hitting the press, I've always had to get my credit card out to prove I'm Damien Hirst.

One thing that did get me into a lot of different types of music was when I was very young, the local record store went out of business and they were selling off all the vinyl. I remember going in - I was probably 16 or 17 and I'd just gotten a record player as a present. It was like hitting the jackpot: all these records for $3 apiece.

Most of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don't fit in a very interesting way.

I used to joke I was a point-and-click actor. My whole process has been about trusting your instincts and hitting your mark.

My wife and I both come from Irish families. There are two kinds of Irish families: the hitting kind and the kidding kind. If you're fortunate - and both of us are - you come from the kidding kind of Irish family.

Everything I read about hitting a midlife crisis was true. I had such a struggle letting go of youthful things and learning how to exist and have enthusiasm while settling into the comfort of an older age.

That's what I hate about a lot of comedies, when you're hitting a line or making it funny.

The only area of the game where I really didn't have a good year in was hitting the ball out of the ballpark, ... I feel like in every other area I improved in and had a solid year.

The power numbers really don't mean much to me. I thought we hit too many fly-ball outs today. I would rather see ground-ball outs. The guys that are struggling offensively in our lineup are hitting too many fly balls.

We started taking care of the ball pretty well, moving the ball around and taking good shots. Something just clicked. We started hitting on all cylinders. It felt pretty good.

We started settling for a lot of jumpers. Jumpers that we usually hit we weren't hitting tonight, and that killed us.

We stuck him in there when we ran out of other options last year. He settled into that role real well. He's not just a guy hitting behind (Todd) Helton anymore. He's a legitimate fourth-place hitter.

We struggled on offense, but we did a good job hitting our free-throws. It's really nice to see it; this was a big game for us.

We are a good team but have just hit one of those times when we can't put our hitting together and our fielding has not been as good as we need it to be.

We are looking forward to Juan hitting in the leadoff spot. This contract is a good conclusion to the winter for both Juan and us.

We believe that the chances of Oracle hitting consensus estimates for its May quarter are low.

Weston's been drawing walks, but he hasn't been hitting the way he can. Today, he got back to hitting line drives.

We're in every game. It all evens out in the end. Basically, our team is going to come together soon. Our hitting is going to come together and out pitching, too. We're right on the verge. I don't know if it is just going to take one or two games to catapult us.

We're in a low area, so we had one or two feet of water yesterday. That has drained down now. Obviously, the area is still wet, but it's drying out. We did get some roof damagesome damage to some windows, and tree limbs hitting windows.

We started off slowly and have been working on that and today it all came together. We are a pretty young team so hitting the ball that hard all day long is encouraging.

We started off playing a little timid. We were hitting the ball in the air and not making plays. Then we settled down, got some hits and were fortunate to come out of (the fourth inning) with the lead.

We started off early. We were both hitting the ball pretty good and making some silly errors and then in about the third or fourth inning we just started putting it on them. We had two innings in a row where they didn't even hit the ball. Three up, three down. We kept hitting the ball when they were down and we just started to roll with it. We ended up ten run-ruling them.

We started hitting the ball well in the seventh.

We started hitting the ball a little bit in the second game, laying off the high-rise pitch and hitting into gaps.

We started hitting (the 3s) for one thing. If they go in, they count. They add.

We started hitting shots. You credit the guys for not panicking at halftime (and) sticking with it.

We started hitting our outside shots. That opened things up on the inside.

We started hitting our free throws. We got the lead in the second quarter and never gave it back.

We started hitting on all cylinders. Our defense was the catalyst. It's easier to make shots when you are playing well on defense.

When you turn on the tube you see him hitting six 3s in a game, so you know he can shoot the ball. And this was just one of those nights when he caught fire.

Whether we hit it today or next week, I don't really think hitting $50 is going to give us a downturn.

Watching guys hit the long ball, and hitting the long ball, is intoxicating.

We've basically been trying to clean up our game in general. Making better passes, playing smarter, hitting the slide on defense, talking, communicating. We've been doing a lot of seven-on-seven to get prepared to play such a talented team.

When we were really struggling, you didn't see guys get two hits in a game. Any time someone got one hit, one walk -- nobody could put it together. Tonight when we were hitting the ball, one guy got three hits, one had two RBIs, one had two hits, all of a sudden you don't need nine guys to get a hit -- just two or three to get a hit at the right time.

We're making key hits and playing tight enough defense to win some close games. I think we'll get more confident with our hitting as we go.

We're starting to feel like we're hitting on the right cylinders again.

We're going to play a lot of very good baseball teams in league play. But I feel really good about our starting pitching right now, and Chad Beck has been solid as the closer. We're not where we need to be hitting the ball right now, but that will come. I think we'll be a good hitting team before it's over.

What we're really starting to do is get as many people around the football as possible, since the best thing for forcing turnovers is getting a lot of bodies on a guy. That, and hitting hard.

When we do hit, like today, we just don't play defense. We haven't put together a solid game of pitching, hitting and defense in God-knows how long. It's killing us.

When we did get looks we weren't knocking them down, and they were hitting their shots and locating their shooters.

When we have everybody healthy and hitting on all cylinders, we're a pretty good football team. We feel like we can compete week in and week out with anybody in the country.

What a beautiful shot he hit on 11. I'm standing with a five-iron thinking of hitting it close and he hits it stiff. And now I'm grinding to hit it close rather than just trying to hit a good shot. That's where you win matches, with shots like that.

What he's going to do (in the WBC) is show a lot of people that he can compete at a very high level and elevate everyone's opinion of the baseball talent in China. When he's hitting well, he is a fun guy to watch.

We brought the bats out of the closet today. We've really been hitting the ball well in the last couple of games.

We brought Olivia in. She throws a little harder (than Seymour) and she was hitting her spots.

We are getting good hitting and pitching, but we have a long season ahead.

Unless it's hitting somebody when they're not looking.

Unfortunately, it's taken us until the ninth inning to get back into every game. Timely hitting has to come sooner than the ninth.

Usually hitting shots gets everyone else involved and gives us momentum. It's big for our team for at least one person to come out hitting shots.

We're more productive than we were in the 90s and frankly we didn't start hitting wage pressures in the 90s until about a 4-3/4 percent unemployment rate.

Working with Daddy - it's sort of like playing tennis against somebody, instead of just hitting them into a hedge where they sort of go in, you know.

We face the biggest risk here of any circuit we race on. The danger isn't so much hitting the tyre barriers as hitting another car that has already spun. Visibility is already an issue and that adds to the risk. The spray does not clear. The trees hold the moisture. You cannot see a thing in the spray.

We feel that is going to make us a lot more competitive down the road as we come up again harder teams. They are going to have to worry about Laurel hitting and setting, Morgan setting, the ball coming over on maybe a second hit. We didn't see that last night, but we did in the scrimmage. It is just a lot different. I was happy with our performance (Tuesday), but there is room for improvement.

We're expecting to cool off a little bit, but we're hoping we can maintain our hitting. We know the runs aren't going to come, but we hope to keep hitting it hard and put it in play a bunch. We're very realistic, but it's good to have this confidence built up now.

We're feeling really good about ourselves, defensively, offensively and on the mound. We just need four quality starts from our pitchers. If we play defense behind them, our hitting will take care of itself. It'll be really scary how confident we will be if we win three or four games this weekend.

We're in the same boat. We've been hitting into nets since the 13th of March. It's been horrible. You hit, but you have no clue really what that's accomplishing. We're building on some enthusiasm for the season, but that's about it.

We're just not hitting the baseball well. It's just that simple.

We're just not hitting the ball right now. I don't know if it was his pitching or us not hitting. Guys told me after the game they felt like they should have had more hits.

We're just not hitting right now. It isn't that we aren't trying.

We're just not hitting on all cylinders yet. Does it bother me? Certainly. I'd like to rush for 200 yards every game.

We're just hitting the ball real well. It's nice to be able to sit back and enjoy this. But we know it's going to get tougher.

We're getting better at hitting behind runners and advancing runners. We had more balls hit to the right side today, so I felt better about that, and I'd like to see it more often.

We're fortunate because both teams came out and looked a little nervous. We weren't hitting our shots and they weren't hitting their shots.

We're hoping that Long Branch can pull an upset. We were all sharing the ball and hitting our shots. We played some tough defense that got them out of their rhythm.

We're not as deep as last year as far as the roster is concerned. But because of our players and their versatility, we still have quite a few options. We can move people around and be an effective team defensively. And we have a lot of strength and speed from top to bottom in our hitting lineup.

We're putting that data together to go to the Hill to show congressmen and senators exactly what is happening on individual farms. What they want to do is show how these energy costs are hitting the bottom line.

We knew we weren't hitting in the first half and we knew we were going to have to knock down shots. Then the first one I hit in the second half felt real good, then I got another one, got the ball to me pretty quick after that. Once I got two in a row, I felt pretty good.

We knew they were very athletic, but they weren't hitting their jump shots in the first half.

We knew they were a great hitting team and that we were going to have to face adversity at some time this year. Today was the day to handle it.

We knew they were a good skating team. We came out trying to force their hand with some hitting and our guys got caught up in that a little bit too much. We lost sight of the puck and they're a very good team. They find their open players very well.

Ultimately, at the end of it, it's just trying to get into that space where you feel like you're hitting the right thing and you're making music. And it feels intuitive rather than being counterintuitive.

I think there are a lot of companies that are staying private longer. Much more of their growth is happening while they are on the private side. So their valuations are hitting $1 billion while they are still private more often.

I'm trying to entice people, and sometimes my information is very hard hitting. So I've always wanted to have a soft approach.

The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love.

You don't win a game by hitting the ball out of the court.

Listen to this, okay? Just listen. You hear that? That's market bacon hitting the pan. Today a child is born unto us, and his name will be bacon.

Bobby Brown reminds me of a fellow who's been hitting for 12 years and fielding one.

I would not admire hitting against Ryne Duren, because if he ever hit you in the head you might be in the past tense.

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We're still swinging the bats well. We're hitting the ball hard and getting hits at the right times.

We're still pitching well, playing good defense and getting timely hitting but we're leaving too many men on base.

We're seeing the ball and hitting the ball well. We want to take advantage and jump on people early. We haven't been doing that and we're starting to do that.

We've got more and more kids coming around. The kids are hitting the ball hard.

We've got four seniors this year who are giving us some good leadership. We lost three, but we gained four. And we've got some younger players who are hitting the ball just as well as anybody.

We've got businesses on the North Shore who have seen 30 per cent property tax increases on top of 40 per cent the year before and 30 per cent the year before that, then you're hitting them with another basically property tax. . . . It's just the straw that broke the camel's back, it's too much.

We've tried to shave maybe 10 or 15 seconds off each shot, and we're pretty close, ... It's gotten to the point where I'm not in violation when I'm hitting shots like I probably would have been a few months ago.

I want to develop every base of my game-stealing bases, hitting, being a better fielder.

We have to go out and hit the ball first of all. We haven't been hitting the ball the last three games. Offensively we need our bats to come through, and defensively we've been making mistakes which we need to eliminate.

When your on-base percentage is over .420 and you have a high strikeout total, ... that's better than hitting 7 home runs and driving in 40 runs. To me, the name of the game is getting on base and scoring runs.

When he first came here last year he was even smaller then, and a new guy, so you really have to make a name for yourself and get the trust from your teammates. And he came up just hitting people last year on special teams, and then finally when he started playing on defense he was really coming downhill and just hitting big guys like Jamal Lewis last year. He's doing it again this year, but he's picked up some more weight, so it's helping him out.

We were a very inconsistent hitting team last year. We left a lot of runners on base because we couldn't get the hits at the right time. We've also got to do better on defense, especially when the other teams are stealing bases on us.

We were trying some new things, switching people around. We were having too many hitting errors and needed more positive hits. I think it paid off.

We want to take advantage of playing on our home field. Columbia and Cornell are both great teams. Both squads have great pitching and great hitting and we're not underestimating that, but we can do just as well.

What had set the fae world off? I`d never seen one. Now you couldn`t throw a trowel without hitting a fairy.

Right now, you know, it's not about the refs or anything else, it's about hitting first, getting on the run and never looking back.

We'll be hitting the bricks, so to speak (Saturday), full speed.

We'll see where he is at this weekend. It's one of those things where he hit it and keeps hitting it, so you've got to give it some rest.