hit quotes

You can't think and hit at the same time.

-Yogi Lawrence Peter Berra
Quoted in Colin  Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

England isnot ruined becausesinewy brownmenfroma distant colony sometimes hit a ball further and oftener than our men do.

-J(ohn) B(oynton) Priestley
Quoted in ColinJarmanThe Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

Find out where the ball is, get there; hit it.

- Prince Ranjitsinhji
Explaining his tactics as a batsman. Quoted in ColinJarmanThe Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

Do not hit at all if it can be avoided, but never hit softly.

-Theodore Roosevelt
  Theodore Roosevelt: an Autobiography.

In the spacious highways of books major or minor, each poet is allowed the stride that will get him where he wants to go if,God help him, he can hit that stride and keep it.

- Carl Sandburg
Quoted inTheComplete Poems of Carl Sandburg (1986),'Notes for a Preface'.