#hitting

When I was up there at the plate, my purpose was to get on base anyway I could, whether by hitting or by getting hit. ↗

— Shoeless Joe Jackson

#base #could #get #getting #hit

What a perfect way to end the home stand, by hitting sixty-two for the city of St. Louis and all the fans. I truly wanted to do it here and I did. Thank you St. Louis. ↗

— Mark McGwire

#did #end #fans #here #hitting

I was asleep, in the upstairs bedroom, in the rear of the house. There was this tremendous crash, there was a terrible wind force hitting my body, and then I blanked out. ↗

— Larry Miller

#bedroom #body #crash #force #hitting

Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing. ↗

— Warren Spahn

#hitting #pitching #timing #upsetting

I'm always amazed when a pitcher becomes angry at a hitter for hitting a home run off him. When I strike out, I don't get angry at the pitcher, I get angry at myself. I would think that if a pitcher threw up a home run ball, he should be angry at himself. ↗

— Willie Stargell

#amazed #angry #ball #becomes #get

There are two theories on hitting the knuckleball. Unfortunately, neither of them works. ↗

— Charley Lau

#hitting #neither #them #theories #two

How simple life is. It's as simple as this: you're hungry and you eat, you're full and you shit. Between eating and shitting, that's where human life is found. - (Houseboy + Maid, in Tales from Djakarta) ↗

— Pramoedya Ananta Toer

#houseboy-and-maid #jongos-dan-babu #life-between-eating-and-shitting #pramoedya #tales-from-djakarta

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

— Dave Barry

#ball #been #far #golf #hitting

I don't try to intimidate anybody before a fight. That's nonsense. I intimidate people by hitting them. ↗

— Mike Tyson

#before #fight #hitting #i #intimidate

For men, as they get bogged down with responsibilities, commitments, bureaucracy, it is a fantasy just to think of shedding everything literally, walking away with nothing at all, and just hitting the road. ↗

— Lee Child

#bogged #bureaucracy #commitments #down #everything