Batters Quotes

I threw a lot of balls and walked a lot of batters. Not something I`m proud of, but something I learned from.

As a senior pitcher, she (Oswald) knows how to set batters up. She`s getting the defense that`s really helping her out behind her, and we`re taking some of the pressure off of her by scoring runs.

Our batters, and especially our bowlers in the heat - it has been a real team effort. (on winning the South Africa series, 2005)

I have observed that baseball is not unlike a war, and when you come right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery.

Twenty games is the magic figure for pitchers - .300 is the magic figures for batters. It pays off in salary and reputation. And those are the two things that keep a ballplayer in business.

Anybody`s best pitch is the one the batters ain`t hitting that day.

Our pitching struggled in the first few innings as we walked the first three batters. Then, we started to hit.

The one area we`ve got to work on is the batters. They`ve got to show a little more patience (than in Pakistan).

When pitchers are pitching well, they`re repeating well, physically and mentally. I don`t know about the mental part of it, because I`m not in (Hudson`s) head. But physically, he gets out of sync, and it takes him a few batters to get it back.

I`ve got to get ahead of batters, instead of getting behind and trying to be so picky, especially with those guys at the bottom of the order,