A brilliant idea without action is like Mark McGwire playing baseball without a bat.
I always respect right off the bat because we are human, but then over time you learn who the person truly is, just like they learn about you. Hope it works out really well, and you hope that builds a stronger connection over time. You can't be friends with everybody.
Welcome it as part of a process. . . you just can't avoid it. . . if you go to bat enough times, you are going to strike out; and you will do it cataclysmically; and you know success and failure are just millimeters apart.
I have an Alka-Seltzer bat. You know-plop, plop, fizz, fizz, when the pitcher sees me walking up there he says, 'Oh, what a relief it is'.
The gap between bat and pad is so much that I would have driven a car through it. . . !!
I am really quite fascinated by echo-locating bats and dolphins and have always wondered how sound affects the unconscious brain.
I didn’t realize that one tragedy can beget another, and another — bright-eyed disasters flooding out of a death hole like bats out of a cave.
Words should wander and meander. They should fly like owls and flicker like bats and slip like cats. They should murmur and scream and dance and sing.
Being with a small publisher has been huge. They bat for me for everything.
Today if I'm a cricketer it is because of Sachin Tendulkar. Else, I would never have picked up a bat. He's the reason behind me playing cricket
The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball.
I learned to hit with a broomstick and a ball of tape and I could always get that bat on the ball.
If he had his wits about him Bunny would surely keep his mouth shut; but now, with his subconscious mind knocked loose from its perch and flapping in the hollow corridors of his skull as erratically as a bat, there was no way to be sure of anything he might do.
It took us a little while, but we swung the bats well tonight.
I hated to bat against Drysdale. After he hit you he'd come around, look at the bruise on your arm and say, 'Do you want me to sign it?'
The Indian bowlers picked me for sledging when I was batting well. They called me school boy. But I was enjoying it and I had answered it with my bat.
Hey there. Here's something familiar, a bat. Hope you like it.
I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.
I had no issues with lesbians, but I didn't swing the bat that way, and I kind of resented getting molested.
The beanball is one of the meanest things on Earth and no decent fellow would use it. The beanball is a potential murderer. If I were a batter and thought the pitcher really tried to bean me, I'd be inclined to wait for him outside the park with a baseball bat.