(132 quotes found)
“I battered the cordons around me/ And cradled my wings on the breeze,/ Then soared to the uttermost reaches/ With rapture, with power, with ease!”
Georgia Douglas Johnson
“Any pitcher who throws at a batter and deliberately tries to hit him is a communist.”
Alvin Dark
“Twenty games is the magic figure for pitchers - .300 is the magic figures for batters. It pays off in salary and reputation. And those are the two things that keep a ballplayer in business.”
Warren Spahn
“I'll be in Los Angeles for two weeks and I'll have a laugh, get battered and have a buzz, but at the end of the day, I'll go home. It's just me earning a few more stories to tell everyone at home and all.”
Colin Farrell
“Anybody's best pitch is the one the batters ain't hitting that day.”
Christy Mathewson
“Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they bleed.”
Roger Kahn
“I threw a lot of balls and walked a lot of batters. Not something I'm proud of, but something I learned from.”
Randy Johnson
“I have got a bit in me yet. As a batter I am hoping to get better and better, and when I get to 33 I hope I will be firing on all cylinders.”
Andrew Flintoff
“Everything was going fine. Then I walked the leadoff batter, and that's never good. I still felt like I was getting ahead of the hitters, but I just didn't make good pitches with two strikes.”
Brad Halsey
“He was sharp. For the most part, he worked ahead in the count and challenged the batters.”
Alan Gibson
