I was never coached; I was never told how to hold a bat.
I liked the koala, wallaby, and I chilled with a kangaroo a bit. There was a wombat that I quite enjoyed also
I will leave this shining life of cricket very soon. This bat and ball won't save Shahid Afridi in Grave
The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball.
A famous bon mot asserts that opinions are like arse-holes, in that everyone has one. There is great wisdom in this... but I would add that opinions differ significantly from arse-holes, in that yours should be constantly and thoroughly examined.We must think critically, and not just about the ideas of others. Be hard on your beliefs. Take them out onto the verandah and beat them with a cricket bat.... Be intellectually rigorous. Identify your biases, your prejudices, your privilege.
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
I've never fallen in love right off the bat. I get scared to say I love you too soon because it means so much. It means you're not seeing an end to things.
I don't make speeches. I just let my bat speak for me in the summertime.
When you're mad at someone, it's probably best not to break his arm with a baseball bat.
I like to think of the world's greatest athlete coming up to bat against me - Tiger Woods, Wayne Gretzky, I don't care who it is - and I'm looking at him thinking, you have no chance.
I'm not afraid to swing the bat. If they elect to pitch to me, I'm going to swing. I'm not as picky as Mr. Sheffield. I'll swing at something over my head.
If you want to learn batting, bat with MS Dhoni.
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 American boy starts swinging the bat about as soon as he can lift one.
Test cricket is bloody hard work, especially when you've got Sachin batting with what looks like a three metre wide bat.
A ball bat is a wondrous weapon.
To cure a batting slump, I took my bat to bed with me. I wanted to know my bat a little better.
You surprise yourself on some balls off the bat. You don't think you have a chance to catch it. And then your natural ability just takes over.
The hardest thing to do in baseball is to hit a round baseball with a round bat, squarely.
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?'
What is it like to be a bat? What is it like for a bat to be a bat?
We ought to take good care of everybody we have on the planet, but we ought to regulate the rate at which people join us. The old saying is, "It's the top of the ninth inning, and humanity has been hitting nature hard, but you've always got to remember that nature bats last."
A gun is no more dangerous than a cricket bat in the hands of a madman.
There are some people who might look better if you smacked them in the head with a baseball bat.
Hand me down the shark repellent Bat-Spray!
