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«I am the batsman and the bat, / I am the bowler and the ball, / The umpire, the pavilion cat, / The roller, pitch, and stumps, and all.»
«I have an Alka Seltzer bat. You know, plop plop fizz fizz. When the pitcher sees me walking up there they say, 'Oh what a relief it is.'»
«It's a pretty sure thing that the player's bat is what speaks loudest when it's contract time, but there are moments when the glove has the last word.»
«I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!»
«I bit the head off a live bat the other night. It was like eating a Crunchie wrapped in chamois leather.»
«It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square.»
Author: Pete Rose (Baseball Player, Manager) | Keywords: bat, square
«I don't understand the whole dating thing. I know right off the bat if I'm interested in someone, and I don't want them to waste their money on me and take me out to eat if I know I'm not interested in that person.»
Author: Britney Spears (Singer) | About: Dating | Keywords: bat, dating, Take Me, The Bat, waste of money
«I have no expectation of making a hit every time I come to bat.»
Author: Franklin D. Roosevelt (President) | Keywords: bat
«In the description of night in Macbeth, the beetle and the bat detract from the general idea of darkness - inspissated gloom»
«I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat, and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn't my fault that I'm not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?»

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