- Grateful
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- Nov 07, 2020
Batter Quotes
The pitcher-versus-batter standoff, distilled into words.
Baseball writers keep circling back to the sixty feet, six inches that separate a pitcher from a batter — a distance loaded with psychology, eye contact, and nerve. One quote insists the batter should believe the pitcher is more scared, a mindset worth revisiting in Good.
- Last Updated on Aug 01, 2026
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a lot of fun playing football and basketball, but deep down, the chess match or cat-and-mouse game between the pitcher and batter in baseball really drew me in. It's a thinking man's game, and for me, nothing can compare to that.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man who gives himself to be a possession of aliens leads a Yahoo life, having bartered his soul to a brute-master. He is not of them. He may stand against them, persuade himself of a mission, batter and twist them into something which they, of their own accord, would not have been.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
When a batter swings and I see his knees move, I can tell just what his weaknesses are then I just put the ball where I know he can't hit it.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love a Yorkshire pudding. It's basically pancake batter that's fried in beef fat and puffs up; it's like you can't go wrong.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's one of the great gifts of this, the greatest of all games, baseball: it allows you, still, to lose yourself in a dream, to feel and remember a season of life when summer never seemed to die and the assault of cynicism hadn't begun to batter optimism.
- Feet
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- Nov 07, 2020
Baseball is a movable conversation across nine innings. It is eye contact with the person seated next to you in a park where the pitcher is separated from the batter by 60 feet, six inches or in a family room where a 60-inch TV screen hangs on the wall.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
He was one of my childhood idols, and I hope I can get in the ring with him one day. I'd love to batter The Rock.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
Number one, from a tackling standpoint, we teach strike zone hits, and we want to hit absolutely as hard as we can in that strike zone, and that's absolutely what we call a batter in the batters box from the chest all the way down to the knees.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I still enjoy watching a batter successfully cross home plate, but nothing thrills me more than seeing the Holy Spirit at work in hearts as the Gospel is carried into stadiums, across the airwaves, and around the world.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
In baseball, you can do something poorly and still get credit. A pitcher could throw a bad ball, the batter hit a screaming line drive, and an outfielder make a fantastic diving catch. Yet, when you look at historical databases, 80% of the time when a ball is struck with that trajectory and velocity, it is a hit.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
The great American food writer M. F. K. Fisher once wrote an essay called 'The Anatomy of a Recipe.' To have a good anatomy, in her view, a recipe should have a sense of logical progression. She despaired of recipes with 'anatomical faults,' where the reader is told to make a cake batter and only then to grease the loaf pans.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
Without action to de-carbonize our economies, unchecked climate change threatens to batter lives and economies around the world, hitting the poorest people hardest.
- Deliberately
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any pitcher who throws at a batter and deliberately tries to hit him is a communist.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020